Introducing WIRED’s Flagship Podcast, ‘Uncanny Valley’

Silicon Valley has been an epicenter of planetary innovation for decades. But the Valley, and its associated personalities, companies, and trends, has ne'er been location to much undiluted powerfulness than it is today.

Think astir it: Elon Musk, among the world’s richest people, is fundamentally underwriting US statesmanlike candidates portion subsidiaries of his interstellar-centric institution SpaceX drawback up much orbital existent property with each outer launch; contempt Facebook’s diminution arsenic a habitual level for galore Americans, Meta’s idiosyncratic basal worldwide continues to grow, ticking ever-closer to the stunning 4 cardinal mark; and successful the past 2 years, Silicon Valley startups and behemoths alike person spawned yet different lucrative tech hype cycle, catalyzing billions of dollars successful spending against the committedness of an AI revolution.

Here astatine WIRED, we’re covering each of this powerfulness and power connected a regular ground crossed our integer platforms and successful our people editions. But we’re ever looking for caller ways of exploring Silicon Valley’s ascendancy, peculiarly successful ways that marque it easier for you—the WIRED audience—to recognize and deliberation about. Why mightiness Elon Musk beryllium truthful anxious to spot a GOP-led White House, and what would a Trump regulatory situation and a Muskian attack to national ratio mean for your regular life? If Meta remains committed to making the full metaverse happening a reality, however volition it alteration the mode you socialize, work, oregon learn? And is generative AI truly going to alteration everything, oregon are we successful the midst of a bubble that’s astir to stroke the tech manufacture isolated astatine a standard we haven’t seen since the early-2000s dotcom bust?

There’s a batch to cover, and there’s besides a batch to speech about. That’s wherefore I’m delighted to denote Uncanny Valley, a caller podcast from 3 of WIRED’s finest Bay Area journalists: Michael Calore, Zoë Schiffer, and Lauren Goode. Together, Uncanny Valley’s hosts volition untangle and explicate the latest and greatest—or strangest—trends from wrong the tech manufacture and however they’re poised to signifier nine astatine large.

Expect informed and intelligent conversations, from 3 hosts who’ve got decades of acquisition covering Silicon Valley, its products, and its people, each from wrong the Bay Area bubble. And this being WIRED, we’ll counterbalance that astute speech with a steadfast dose of the weird stuff, too: Tech’s astir almighty radical aren’t conscionable inventing the future, aft all—they’re besides trying to cheat death, one-up each other’s apocalypse bunkers, and physique VC-backed cities from the crushed up.

You tin find Uncanny Valley wherever you get your podcasts. And we privation to perceive from you: Send feedback, ideas for the show, and questions for our hosts to uncannyvalley@wired.com. I anticipation you emotion the amusement arsenic overmuch arsenic we do; happy listening!