This week on Uncanny Valley, we take you behind our feature on the women struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.

Volkswagen’s electric minibus will not return for the 2027 model year as expected, after another delay.
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The startup’s robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.

Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Ak…
Australia says an OpenAI agent got past blocks on a Medicare statistics portal in June. OpenAI’s notification arrived in September.
You can do a whole lot more than tap to pay with Google’s Wallet app.

Would you trust an AI agent to run your Amazon store? That future may be near. But true AI transformation requires moving beyond “gap-filling” AI tools. It requires building an infrastructure layer that lets AI agents create and manage their own workfl…

Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris …

FEVM’s FA80G combines AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Nvidia’s 24GB RTX 5090 Laptop GPU inside a compact 2.6-liter gaming system.

There’s little actually wrong with the Galaxy S26 FE, but in costing more than its predecessor, it’s harder to recommend than other S26 models.