This week, the Uncanny Valley group dives into the feud that has been brewing between Anthropic and the Pentagon—and what it says about how the federal government interacts with tech corporations. Later, Zoë Schiffer tells us why determining whether or not you’re agentic or mimetic has change into the brand new litmus check in Silicon Valley. Plus, we focus on the important thing takeaways from the State of the Union deal with and provides a farewell to the TAT-8 undersea cables—those that made our fashionable web attainable.
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Brian Barrett: Hey, it is Brian. Zoë, Leah, and I’ve actually loved being your new hosts these previous few weeks, and we wish to hear from you. In the event you just like the present and have a minute, please go away us a evaluate within the podcast or app of your alternative. It actually helps us attain extra individuals. And for any questions and feedback, you possibly can at all times attain us at uncannyvalley@wired.com. Thanks for listening. On to the present.
Leah Feiger: Hey, how’s it going?
Zoë Schiffer: I really feel nice. Brian?
Brian Barrett: I really feel terrific, and I do know Leah does too, as a result of Survivor‘s again tonight, one other factor that we care about and you do not.
Zoë Schiffer: How are you aware I do not? I imply, I do not. I do not, apart from my finest good friend from childhood tried to go on it after which she did not get on, so it is irrelevant.
Leah Feiger: Famously, someday I will apply, and each Brian and our colleague Tim have assured me that I can go away for a month to the seashores of Fiji and are available again and nonetheless hold my job.
Zoë Schiffer: I believe most individuals could be like, Leah, you are not going to outlive on the market, however they do not know about your deep-sea-diving prowess.
Leah Feiger: I truly assume I’d be positive. I actually, actually wish to do that. At some point, you guys.
Brian Barrett: However Leah, it will require you to probably kill some fish to eat them, which isn’t usually—
Leah Feiger: That is OK.
Brian Barrett: Oh, OK.
Leah Feiger: No, no, no, no, fishing’s positive. Subsistence residing, that is very OK. It is, like, the bigger institutionalization of the mass homicide of our sea that I take a little bit of a much bigger concern with.
Zoë Schiffer: And on that word, welcome to WIRED’s Uncanny Valley. I am Zoë Schiffer, WIRED’s director of enterprise and business.
Brian Barrett: I am Brian Barrett, government editor.
Leah Feiger: And I am Leah Feiger, senior politics editor.
