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Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.

Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down

As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it wil…

Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3

Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors…

Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake

Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.

Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says

Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to rai…

Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds

No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.

How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon

This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.

Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising ques…

Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.

Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have R…

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as re…

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully boote…

Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%

Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token…

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday, Sta…

AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare

Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprov…

Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

Gemini Carbon aims to boost AI cyber defense, but is limited to a few

The model addresses security concerns. Yet its exclusive release means most enterprises won’t be able to test it.

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’

The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital a…

Prompt: AI demand is booming; the economics are getting complicated

Anthropic’s IPO filing offers a glimpse into soaring enterprise AI demand, but price competition and the cost of delivering AI are complicat…