Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.

ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.

Niantic is giving its cute AR cartoon companions a voice that will let them guide you around in the real world and point out interesting facts. The feature is being demo’d first in Snap Spectacles.

An AI chatbot developed by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is now more popular than DeepSeek. The feat proves that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.

All Windows 11 users will soon be able to talk to the Copilot AI assistant more easily via voice, and Copilot Vision can understand the context of your screen.

Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

OpenAI has announced “AI sovereignty” partnerships with governments around the world, but can proprietary models compete with Beijing’s open source offerings?

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about one author’s journey to flee the US, social media surveillance, chatbots and the world of AI, and conspiracy theories for an autism cure.

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.