This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts discuss the meltdown that has been recently unfolding at Meta and what it says about the company’s relentless ambitions in the AI race. They…
…The feature, which makes it impossible for tech companies and anyone other than the sender and recipient to snoop on your messages, has become mainstream over the past decade. As generative AI…
…clarify, including in internal blog posts directed at employees, that it does not directly fund any super PACs. Policy Battles Lehane compares OpenAI to the companies that built earlier foundational utilities like…
…The latter was first announced last year as an effort to directly “outshine Meta.” These $299 glasses do just about everything you’d expect from Meta’s new $299 Meta Smartglasses, including…
…In instances where his company has come across content creators’ names being used on hacked websites, Purcell says it contacts the site’s security or administration team to alert them directly. “The…
…Michael Kratsios, the White House’s director of the office of science and technology policy, said in an April 2026 memo that it would share information with US AI companies about foreign…
…The company began disclosing water use from specific data centers in annual reports in 2023. Priscilla Johnson, an independent consultant who served as Microsoft’s director of water strategy between 2017 and…
…conservative scenario, not the actual projected emissions,” Alex Schott, the director of communications at Williams Companies, an oil and gas company that is building out three behind-the-meter power plants in…
…The company supports living wages for factory workers in its supply chain, and its devices are assembled with renewable energy and are 100 percent e-waste neutral. The company is also a…
…What has not been previously reported is that the company is also taking steps to solidify “Rednote” as a separate corporate entity to oversee the app’s international users. The company’s…