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This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents
The signal, not the noise

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents

"For the payers" isn't just a meme, it turns out. Sony is making 59% more money per active PlayStation user now than they were during the PS4 era, according to new data compiled by Niko Partners Director of Research and Insights Daniel Ahmad, who covers the video game market with a focus on the Asia and MENA markets.

The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.

The campus will be designed for frontier AI companies and hyperscalers, facilitating high-density GPU deployments for AI training and advanced computing

The Home Depot Labor Day sale goes hard on grills and tools. Here are our recommendations on what to buy—and what to ignore.

The investment firm's new Bharat Tech Fund, a Category II AIF, targeting a corpus of Rs 600 crore, alongside a greenshoe option of Rs 200 crore, has already raised about Rs 400 crore and evaluated around 30-35 startups in the hunt for the next investment, Modi told PTI.

TECH-AI/OPENAI-CYBERSECURITY:OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid AI safety scrutiny

Competition Commission of India (CCI) chairperson Ravneet Kaur has reportedly warned that AI could amplify anti-competitive practices in digital markets.…

In what appears to be a follow-up to the mighty “CasiOak,” the rugged Japanese watch brand is expected to release an all-new luxury homage.

Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

It’s one of the best times of the year to buy a mattress, and our top tested picks are on sale.

IPO-bound furniture and appliance rental startup RentoMojo’s restated profit after tax (PAT) surged nearly 142% ₹104.2 Cr in the fiscal…

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.

Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.

The new deal is the latest example of Nvidia financing the infrastructure built around its chips, a strategy that helps drive demand but has also raised questions about circular funding flows between the chip giant and its customers. Huang said the new deal was not circular fi…

Crytek, the developer behind one of the best video games of all time, Crysis, and Hunt: Showdown 1896, has reportedly laid off employees at its Istanbul, Turkey, studio and in its Frankfurt headquarters in Germany. According to Insider Gaming’s report on the Crytek layoffs, Crytek laid off its entire quality assurance (QA) team in Istanbul.

If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.

Apple is set for a major product launch as John Ternus takes over as CEO on September 9. Key products include a foldable iPhone, updated Apple Watches, and new MacBooks, with releases scheduled through 2026 and beyond, establishing a new phase for the tech giant.

While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others specifically leverage Gemini to provide various improvements.

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

X is investigating a wave of unsolicited password reset emails that it believes may be tied to the rollout of its new payments service.

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2027. Net revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2027 was $2.739 billion, $39.0 million above the mid-point of the Company's guidance provided on May 27, 2026.

According to the report, the August sales were the second-highest monthly sales in Hon Hai's history, trailing only the NT$946.51 billion ($29.85 billion) recorded in July

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech, after saying in the deal announcement […]

Trump administration backs OpenAI in New York Times' copyright case over training of chatbots

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.

The AI era has completely broken enterprise buying patterns, and startups haven't yet figured out how to navigate.

Experts have long touted quantum computers' potential to solve problems regular computers cannot and speed up scientific discoveries, but the technology remains error prone because of its extreme sensitivity to any disturbances including sound.