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WIRED Roundup: What’s Behind OpenAI’s Government Partnership?
On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we discuss the week's news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump's tariffs to OpenAI's new deal with the US government.
On today’s episode, our host Zoë Schiffer is joined by WIRED’s senior politics writer Jake Lahut to run through five of the most important stories we published this week—from how bitcoin miners have been racing this year to beat the tariffs, to how AI was used to find a missing hiker in the Italian Alps. Jake Lahut: This seems like a great business move from OpenAI's perspective of using the federal government in effect as a way to kind of hedge off progress the competition could make and get the inside track for what could be really valuable contracts. How are you going to talk about it if you're going to keep going on podcasts and stuff and try to do your chill, laid back bro routine, and someone asks you about masked men disappearing people off the street, are you going to give an answer like, "Oh, it's actually kind of really complicated?"
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