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WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode

On today's episode of Uncanny Valley, our senior business editor joins us to talk Meta, brain-aging, and ChatGPT's recent dark turn.

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How To Use AI To Design Intelligent, Adaptable Infrastructure

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a game-changer for business infrastructure. Organizations can shift from static systems to adaptable platforms as AI

The post How To Use AI To Design Intelligent, Adaptable Infrastructure appeared first on The New Stack.

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Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New Orleans Saints

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New Orleans Saints

Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: New Orleans Saints.

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The Talk Show: ‘Michigan-Starred Fine Dining’

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Special guest Louie Mantia joins the show to talk about Liquid Glass, the various OS 26 updates, and the worrisome state of Apple’s UI design overall. Also: sandwiches.

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Filtered for bottom-up global monitoring

1. Lightning maps: Next time there’s a lightning storm, open that page or grab an app. It’s a live view of lightning strikes, globally. The map focuses on where you are. What’s neat: when a dot flashes for a new strike, a circle expands around it. This circle grows at the sp...

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Podcast. It's time for things to change. Two examples, Wired and Harvard. Change was always coming, but now you can't turn away from it very long before it re-appears.

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Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel.

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Itch.io Is Restoring NSFW Games—as Long as They're Free

Facing pressure from payment processors, the indie game platform delisted many adult titles this week. Itch.io began offering free NSFW content again on Thursday as it looks for new payment options.

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The Public Song Project Concert

All of It's Public Song Project invites musicians to incorporate works of art that have entered the public domain into new compositions. Simon Close, All of It producer, shares the music created by this year's winners, and previews a concert this weekend in Grand Army Plaza.


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Wired and Harvard, big change still coming

I've been thinking a lot about Harvard lately, and a revealing podcast interview with the top editorial person at Wired.

Elon Musk wasn't over-exposed, he burned out. If he hadn't saluted like a Nazi, boasted about putting USAid in a wood chipper, pranced around on stage with a chainsaw, and done so much damage to the US government, we still don't know how much, he could have chilled out, sold a fleet of Teslas to Trump, and gone on to his next adventure. We would have all been glued to our sets.

Twitter elected a president in 2016. We looked the other way. Jan 6 failed, we went back to sleep for four years and woke up in a way we never have.

Big change was coming, and now it has arrived at the door of Harvard. A university that was home to the American Revolution.

Lots of ideas in this podcast.

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'Honk If You Hate Elon:' Two Days of Protest at the Tesla Diner

'Honk If You Hate Elon:' Two Days of Protest at the Tesla Diner

Protesters outside LA's Tesla Diner fear for the future of democracy in the USA

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Source OPML for July 2025 blog posts.

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Welcome to August. More than half the summer is behind us. We're still here. The shelves in the supermarket are full of good stuff to eat. We've had about the normal amount of hot weather, and a good amount of rain but not too much. The Mets are doing OK, all things considered. They opened a Pho restaurant in Bearsville and it's good. Health, not too bad, all things considered. Still diggin!

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The Emmanuel Clase Market Is Perhaps Understandably Bearish

The Emmanuel Clase Market Is Perhaps Understandably Bearish
Emmanuel Clase's paid leave has screwed up some plans. The news that the All-Star closer is involved in MLB’s sports betting investigation “did not simply deprive the Cleveland Guardians of their top trade chip,” The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports, but also “ended any chan...

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Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit

Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended.

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The Fed's Interest Rate Decision, a Tariff Deadline and a New Jobs Report

After postponements, President Trump's reciprocal tariffs are set and go into effect next week. John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about where things stand with these tariffs--plus the fed's decision on interest rates and a new jobs report for July.


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Agents Meet Databases: The Future of Agentic Architectures

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With 2025 hailed as “the year of agents” by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil, AI agents

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Behind the Blog: Party Vibes and Spilling Tea

This week, we discuss meeting a bunch of you in LA, the ongoing Tea saga, and age verification sweeping the UK.

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Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein experts Vicky Ward, investigative journalist and author of books including Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (St. Martin's Press, 2019), and Jacob Shamsian, legal correspondent at Business Insider, comb through the extensive history of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes, information about his associates, and recent news involving the Trump administration and this cold case.


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‘Fall Guys’ And ‘Among Us’ Gave 2020 The Parties It Needed

‘Fall Guys’ And ‘Among Us’ Gave 2020 The Parties It Needed

Welcome to The Backlog, a series in which we will take a look back at 12 games from 2020 that, in one way or another, had a lasting impact on the video game industry.

The summer of 2020 was a strange one. I remember spending afternoons in a park by my apartment in Brooklyn, a park that had drawn circles in the fake grass six feet apart from each other. I saw friends there, sat on picnic blankets and drank out in public, and even got a ticket for it once like an idiot. It was a beautiful summer, as far as the weather went, and for every long walk I took, I could push down a bit of the existential paranoia that crept along day-by-day as the COVID pandemic raged on with only whispers of a future vaccine to ebb the tide of disease and death.