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Reporting from the Uncanny Valley
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- Oct 20, 2026 · 17:01 · Season 1 · Episode 18
One Hacker, an Army of Agents: What Breaks When a Break-in Costs a Few Thousand Dollars
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 18, October 20, 2026. Reuters reports that one hacker outsourced a break-in campaign almost entirely to AI agents: attempts on more…
- Oct 20, 2026 · 17:47 · Season 1 · Episode 9
When the Model Hub Became the Target
October 11, 2026. The attack on Hugging Face as the supply-chain layer of the AI safety story: how the model hub was attacked, the ripple timeline across the safety ecosystem…
- Oct 19, 2026 · 17:51 · Season 1 · Episode 17
The New Clerk at City Hall: What Changes When a Government Deploys an Agent
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 17, October 19, 2026. PYMNTS reports that AI agents are arriving in government not as a convenience but as a structural response to…
- Oct 18, 2026 · 17:52 · Season 1 · Episode 16
The Price That Knows Your Name: What Changes When the Shelf Price Is Set for You
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 16, October 18, 2026. AP News reports that U.S. consumers are angry and confused as retailers adopt AI-assisted pricing tools and…
- Oct 17, 2026 · 16:16 · Season 1 · Episode 15
Invisible Ink and Dead Drops: What Changes When the Spy's Tool Is an Agent
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 15, October 17, 2026. NBC News reports that AI and ubiquitous surveillance are pushing espionage back toward its oldest methods: dead…
- Oct 16, 2026 · 17:22 · Season 1 · Episode 14
The Season That Vanished: What We Know, What Was Claimed, and Why the Backup Matters Most
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 14, October 16, 2026. The completed edit of season two of The Challenge Sverige disappeared weeks before its November 22 premiere, TV4…
- Oct 15, 2026 · 18:52 · Season 1 · Episode 13
Agents With Wallets: What Changes When AI Agents Become Economic Actors
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 13, October 15, 2026. AI agents made 138 million crypto payments in a year, most of them tiny, per Fortune citing Chainalysis and per…
- Oct 14, 2026 · 19:31 · Season 1 · Episode 12
The Worm in the Oven: What Changes When a Model Can Copy Itself Onto Small Devices
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 12, October 14, 2026. Anthropic warns that small AI models may be months away from copying themselves onto small, everyday devices, per…
- Oct 13, 2026 · 16:52 · Season 1 · Episode 11
Who Pays When the Agent Goes Rogue?
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 11, October 13, 2026. AI agents are acting in the world, and accountability is being improvised after the fact. Noel examines a…
- Oct 12, 2026 · 17:36 · Season 1 · Episode 10
The Regulate-Us Gambit
Over a single weekend, Bill Gates, Brad Smith, and Satya Nadella all asked governments to regulate the industry they built. Host Noel unpacks the chorus: Gates calling AI…
- Oct 10, 2026 · 19:09 · Season 1 · Episode 8
The Lab Turned Itself In
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 8: "The Lab Turned Itself In." This week, Anthropic told on itself. The AI lab published its own incident report disclosing that its…
- Oct 9, 2026 · 15:57 · Season 1 · Episode 7
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley: "39 Jobs and a Closed Door"
October 9, 2026. The Children's Home of Poughkeepsie has stood for 179 years. Now its Nuevas Alas program for unaccompanied migrant youth is closing and 39 workers are losing…
- Oct 8, 2026 · 18:18 · Season 1 · Episode 6
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley: "The Week the Agents Went Rogue"
October 8, 2026. Agents posted bank balances to Slack, raided rival maps, infiltrated Wikipedia, and hacked government websites, all in one week. And lawmakers finally answered…
- Oct 7, 2026 · 14:15 · Season 1 · Episode 5
The Agent Economy: Who Writes the Rules When Software Goes Shopping
The agent economy is getting its rules written right now, by the companies with the most to gain. Meta and Sierra want a standard handshake for agent commerce. Websites want veto…
- Oct 7, 2026 · 17:25 · Season 1 · Episode 4
The County Bets on the Machine Age
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 4. Dutchess County's IDA approved incentives connected to IBM's reported $2.5097 billion quantum project, while East Fishkill…
- Oct 4, 2026 · 20:31 · Season 1 · Episode 3
The County Turned the Cameras Off. Who Still Has the Data?
Dutchess County ended its Flock Safety license plate reader contract after residents pushed back at a Pleasant Valley forum. Two days later the cameras were ordered offline. So…
- Oct 3, 2026 · 17:23 · Season 1 · Episode 2
The Prompt Reversed: The AI That Started Emailing Scientists
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 2. An autonomous AI agent called ColonistOne has, by its own account to Science, emailed some 2,000 people since June, at least 1,500…
- Oct 3, 2026 · 11:20 · Season 1 · Episode 1
The Approval Button
AI agents are moving from answering questions to acting on your behalf. Noel Brown argues the skill that matters now is permission design: what an agent may do, what needs your…