Welcome to Wired's Uncanny Valley.

I'm Wired's director of business and industry, Zoe Schiffer.

Today on the show, we're bringing you five stories that you need to know about this week,

including how despite some reports claiming that the so-called Department of Government

Efficiency is pretty much over,

those people are actually still at work across federal agencies.

I'm joined today by our senior politics editor, Leah Feiger.

Leah, welcome back to Uncanny Valley.

Thanks so much, Zoe. How are you doing today?

I am great because I've spent the day with you.

But our gentle listeners don't know that. Today's a good day.

Let's dive right in. So the first story this week is one that I saw and I thought, you know what, Leah's

going to want to talk about? Amazon's artificial intelligence prowess. That's all I ever want to talk

about. I know. I know. But I'm actually going to make a hard pitch for you right now.

Okay.

Hit me.

You might think Amazon's biggest contribution to the field of artificial intelligence is the $8 billion that it gave to Anthropic.

But all contrary, it is actually developing frontier models itself.

And it has this very interesting edge in the AI race because so much

of the AI advancements have been built on top of AWS's computing technology.

Mm-hmm. Why don't I know anything about them then? Great question. I think number one,

its executives are very media trained, aka I wouldn't say

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