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From a POV butterfly larvae doc to something that resembled a perfume commercial, Runway AI’s film festival selections did little to convince me of AI’s artistry.

The AI startup is chasing a $500 billion valuation, with backers betting it can become the next Apple or Google. There are reasons for skepticism.

As Adobe rolls out more generative AI features for the PDF, the era of chatbot-less software is firmly a thing of the past.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dig into WIRED’s latest—from crude deportation memes to GPT-5’s negative reception.

Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.

From calculators to ChatGPT, the introduction of new technology into schools has long inspired frenzied discourse: Will it revolutionize the system or rot kids’ brains? It often does neither.

Since the start of the AI boom, teachers have been tasked with figuring out if LLMs are helpful tools or a cheat code. This is how they’re bringing AI to their curricula.

Parents, teachers, and experts have big opinions about the impacts of AI on young people and education. But what do the students themselves say?

For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”