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Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling, and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode.

“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist. “It’s the same here.”

From battery life to privacy, there are many hurdles to the idea taking off.

AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”

Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.

Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.