Augmented Reality: Bruce Sterling, keynote at Augmented World Expo 2013

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

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.

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

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.

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.

Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph—and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity.

The documentary chronicles how Star Trek’s positions on everything from race to AI were way ahead of their time.

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.

Xreal’s long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here’s how they fare against Meta’s recently announced VR Glasses.

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

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.