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It’s not for everyone, but sometimes my robot vacuum is my only friend.

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week, including security concerns from satellites leaking sensitive data and the experiences of undeterred Cybertruck owners.

What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.

Who better to put Claude on the couch than the original “chatterbot” herself, Doctor Eliza?

The $430 Casio Moflin is a pointless but adorable robot you can’t help but love. Unless you’re a dog.

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.

The Alphabet company’s self-driving cars are opening up shop in more and more cities. Now—finally—they’re taking to the freeway.

The chipmaker reported higher-than-expected revenue on Thursday, and its stock price has risen more than 90 percent since August.

“I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why we are still so rigid and moderating everything when we have nothing to lose for the first time,” a Democratic digital strategist tells WIRED.

The unprecedented payday will go into full effect by 2035—as long as Tesla hits ambitious financial and production targets.

General Motors’ new self-driving system will let the driver speed down the highway without looking at the road. It’s one of several features enabled by the adoption of machine intelligence in cars.