Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts discuss Amazon’s controversial decision to drop Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s Sam Altman—which reportedly did not paint him in a favorable light. Alongside Google DeepMind’s $75 million brand new partnership with indie film studio A24, how much of a dent is AI actually having in the films we see? They also dive into the recent upheaval of workers—from electricians to software engineers—against data centers. Plus: Meta’s program to track employees’ data gets paused after a massive leak, and Anthropic is now getting along with the government thanks to CEO Dario Amodei no longer being in the room.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
- A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab
- Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts
- Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
- The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
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