Augmented Reality: Bully! and String

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.