The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior.
OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year Read More »
Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy-themed playsets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.
People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With AI-Generated Kids Read More »
Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship. IRL companionship is the future.
Tech Disrupted Friendship. It’s Time to Bring It Back Read More »
In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—that encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.
WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025 Read More »
In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what’s happening in 2026—including what’s in store for Uncanny Valley.
Introducing a New Chapter for ‘Uncanny Valley’ Read More »
From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.
Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds Read More »
Today, we are excited to introduce a new feature for SageMaker Studio: SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing. SOCI supports lazy loading of container images, where only the necessary parts of an image are downloaded initially rather than the entire container. SageMaker Studio serves as a web Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for end-to-end machine learning (ML) development,
Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spread propaganda to slow the US data-center building boom? Where are AI agents headed?
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026 Read More »
The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.”
This Chrome Extension Turns LinkedIn Posts About AI Into Facts About Allen Iverson Read More »
Even networks long considered “untrainable” can learn effectively with a bit of a helping hand. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have shown that a brief period of alignment between neural networks, a method they call guidance, can dramatically improve the performance of architectures previously thought unsuitable for modern tasks. Their
Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential Read More »
