A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

I used an open-source map of a fruit fly’s brain to vibe code a website called PitchFly. Its headline suggestions were delightfully bananas.

A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

Beijing’s endlessly delightful Robot Games featured tons of impressive stunts. But the most mind-blowing tricks challenged the humanoid’s brain, not its brawn.

During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.

Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.

AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.

Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.

The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.