‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union | EUROtoday

This week, the Uncanny Valley crew 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 firms. Later, Zoë Schiffer tells us why determining whether or not you might be agentic or mimetic has turn out to be the brand new litmus check in Silicon Valley. Plus, we focus on the important thing takeaways from the State of the Union tackle and provides a farewell to the TAT-8 undersea cables—those that made our trendy 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 need to hear from you. If 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 folks. And for any questions and feedback, you may all the time attain us at uncannyvalley@wired.com. Thank you 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 have you learnt I do not? I imply, I do not. I do not, aside from my greatest good friend from childhood tried to go on it after which she did not get on, so it is irrelevant.

Leah Feiger: Famously, at some point I’m going to use, 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 maintain 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 might be effective. I actually, actually need to do that. One day, you guys.

Brian Barrett: But Leah, it will require you to probably kill some fish to eat them, which isn’t usually—

Leah Feiger: That’s OK.

Brian Barrett: Oh, OK.

Leah Feiger: No, no, no, no, fishing’s effective. Subsistence dwelling, that is very OK. It’s, like, the bigger institutionalization of the mass homicide of our sea that I take a little bit of an even bigger problem with.

Zoë Schiffer: And on that observe, welcome to WIRED’s Uncanny Valley. I’m Zoë Schiffer, WIRED’s director of enterprise and trade.

Brian Barrett: I’m Brian Barrett, government editor.

Leah Feiger: And I’m Leah Feiger, senior politics editor.