10 Jul 2026
Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its hardware chief on Friday for allegedly stealing the iPhone-maker’s trade secrets, including unreleased parts and prototypes, confidential designs, and documents about stealth projects.
07 Jul 2026
OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
OpenAI’s chief futurist, Joshua Achiam, notified colleagues on Tuesday that he is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years, WIRED has learned.
07 Jul 2026
Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed to perform digital tasks for you, is expanding beyond the desktop app.
04 Jul 2026
This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone
Jul 4, 2026 6:30 AM Apple built a tool for people with cognitive disabilities, but I accidentally discovered it’s also the best kids’ phone setup no one is talking about—not even Apple.
25 Jun 2026
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts discuss Amazon’s controversial decision to drop Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s Sam Altman—which reportedly did not paint him in a favorable light. Alongside Google DeepMind’s $75 million brand-new partnership with indie film studio A24, how much of a dent is AI actually having in the films we see? They also dive into the recent upheaval of…
25 Jun 2026
A Fatal Tesla Crash in Texas Sets Up a Legal Showdown
On a Texas evening last week, a 76-year-old grandmother named Martha Avila was standing in the front room of her suburban home when a Tesla Model 3 hurtled into her brick home at a reported speed of over 70 miles per hour, killing her.
22 Jun 2026
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos
As fears about AI hacking capabilities grow, OpenAI on Monday made a slew of cybersecurity-focused announcements, including an improved version of its limited-access security-specialized model GPT-5.5-Cyber, expanded international work with governments and other institutions to give them “trusted access” to the company's latest cybersecurity-focused models, and releasing its Codex Security…
20 Jun 2026
Security News This Week: Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
Meta is testing face-recognition software built by the United States military and regional police department supplier Rank One, WIRED found in an investigation this week. Meta has been exploring the possibility of adding face recognition tech into its smart glasses, and WIRED previously reported that the app for the glasses contained code —now deleted—that would have enabled the company to…
17 Jun 2026
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy
The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter.
