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Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley—where each week, WIRED’s writers and editors bring you original reporting and analysis about some of the biggest stories in tech. On Tuesdays, The Big Interview with WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond in conversation with influential figures in culture, politics, business, science, and beyond for a discussion captured through the WIRED lens. On Thursdays, WIRED writers and editors Zoë Schiffer, Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger add you to the Slack group thread to let you into what they’re hearing from sources in Silicon Valley and D.C, read you into what trends you should be watching for and how WIRED is thinking about it all.
Episodes


BIG INTV: Open AI’s Former Safety Lead Calls Out Erotica Claims (Rerun)

Pentagon v. ‘Woke’ Anthropic; Agentic v. Mimetic; Trump v. the State of the Union

BIG INTV: Melinda French Gates on Secrets: ‘Live a Truthful Life, Then You Don’t Have Any’ (Re-Run)

AI Researchers Resignations; Bots Hiring Humans; Evie Magazine’s Party

ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans; Palantir Employees’ Ethical Concerns; AI Assistants

Tech Elites in the Epstein Files; Musk’s Mega Merger; Crypto Scam Compound

Big Intv: Fallout Director Jonathan Nolan Says He's Still a Techno-Optimist

BIG INTV: Silicon Valley Tech Workers’ Campaign to Get ICE Out of US Cities

Minneapolis Misinformation ; TikTok New Owners ; Moltbot Hype

Trump Davos Drama; AI Midterms; ChatGPT's Last Resort

BIG INTV: Wikipedia's Founder on Holding the Line in a Post Fact World

BIG INTV: Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’

BIG INTV: Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’

BIG INTV: CTO Elizabeth Stone On The Future of Netflix: “Personalized, Interactive, Immersive”

WIRED Roundup: The Five Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025

Introducing A New Chapter for Uncanny Valley

BIG INTV: AWS CEO Matt Garman Doesn’t Think AI Should Replace Junior Devs
Katie Drummond interviews Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), about the company's AI strategy, his career journey, and the future of cloud computing. Garman discusses AWS's role in providing essential technology services, its expansion into various industries, and the integration of AI, particularly agen...

WIRED Roundup: Making Art In the AI Era, With Wicked’s Jon. M Chu

AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition
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