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The tech backlash is now in theaters

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The…

We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView

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.

Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work

President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House – but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an…

AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For

Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools.

State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind

MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics finds sustainability commitments are strong, but governance gaps and external disruptions prevent execution.

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that…

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 12B active parameters, 1M-token context and NVFP4 weights that run on 1 DGX Spark, plus 2 Bolt edge models. The post…

Chirp Pong

Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment – I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses…