How Sakana trained a 7B model to orchestrate GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro

Every LangChain pipeline your team hardcodes starts breaking the moment the query distribution shifts — and it always shifts. That bottleneck is what Sakana AI set out to eliminate.Researchers at Sa [...]

Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained

Today on Uncanny Valley, we’re diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models. [...]

OpenAI debuts a Codex plugin for Chrome

The new feature could turn Codex into more than a coding aid. [...]

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, May 8

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for May 8. [...]

The Fujifilm X-T5 is still my favorite APS-C camera years later, and that means the rumored X-T6 has a touch act to follow — here are 5 upgrades that would make it a worthy successor

How do you improve on a best-in-class camera? The rumored Fujifilm X-T6 has a tough act to follow, but with a new processor, sensor, improved autofocus and more, it could be a masterpiece [...]

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens. [...]

Mozilla's agentic AI pipeline turns Claude Mythos Preview loose and finds 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview uncovered 271 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, including bugs up to 20 years old. Mozilla describes an agentic pipeline where the AI b [...]

These EVs earned the worst scores from Consumer Reports

You might want to avoid these models if you're looking for a new electric vehicle [...]

Billie Eilish Doesn't Know if There Will Ever Be Another Billie Eilish

In an interview with WIRED ahead of her new concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), Billie Eilish talked about whether or not future artists will be able to leverage SoundCloud the w [...]