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 authorities interacts with tech corporations. Later, Zoë Schiffer tells us why determining whether or not you are agentic or mimetic has change into the new litmus check in Silicon Valley. Plus, we talk about the key takeaways from the State of the Union handle and provides a farewell to the TAT-8 undersea cables—the ones that made our trendy web potential.
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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 wish to hear from you. If you happen to like the present and have a minute, please go away us a overview in the podcast or app of your selection. It actually helps us attain extra folks. And for any questions and feedback, you possibly can at all times attain us at [email protected]. Thanks 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 are you aware I do not? I imply, I do not. I do not, aside from my finest good friend from childhood tried to go on it after which she did not get on, so it is irrelevant.
Leah Feiger: Famously, in the future I am going to apply, 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 preserve my job.
Zoë Schiffer: I believe most individuals can be like, Leah, you are not going to survive on the market, however they do not know about your deep-sea-diving prowess.
Leah Feiger: I really assume I might be wonderful. I actually, really need to do that. Sooner or later, you guys.
Brian Barrett: However Leah, it could require you to doubtlessly kill some fish to eat them, which is not usually—
Leah Feiger: That is OK.
Brian Barrett: Oh, OK.
Leah Feiger: No, no, no, no, fishing’s wonderful. Subsistence residing, that is very OK. It is, like, the bigger institutionalization of the mass homicide of our sea that I take a little bit of a much bigger subject with.
Zoë Schiffer: And on that notice, welcome to WIRED’s Uncanny Valley. I am Zoë Schiffer, WIRED’s director of enterprise and business.
Brian Barrett: I am Brian Barrett, govt editor.
Leah Feiger: And I am Leah Feiger, senior politics editor.
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