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Plaintiffs in the class -action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.

About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.

Notably, unlike other apps that might just try to pull you away from your phone, Mivo lets the user decide if they want to continue, encouraging users to become more aware of how and why they’re using it instead. 

“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.

FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

A data breach involving government-issued ID documents affects over three million people in Texas.

Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same.  Kē offers […]

The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.

Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.

MapTap is a phone game that will make you feel smarter after you play it.

The future of Tomb Raider begins with a return to its past. Crystal Dynamics announced a brand new Tomb Raider in 2022 alongside a publishing deal with Amazon, promising a new single-player narrative-driven title built in Unreal Engine 5. This was subsequently revealed to be Tomb Raider Catalyst, a game set at the furthest point in the franchise timeline that attempts to unify all of the different versions of Tomb Raider we've had so far. That's currently set to release in 2027.

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The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

The enormous energy put into announcing games, versus the energy put into the follow up is astonishing. The idea that anyone could think that SGF was some kind of goal or end game rather than the start of an uphill struggle is mind-blowing.

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The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.

Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they're on sale to the public.

Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.