‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union

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February 26, 2026, 11:20 PM

• •Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI usage restrictions.
• •Silicon Valley is obsessed with the agentic vs. mimetic personality types.
• •The State of the Union address was delivered with Trump's usual rhetoric.
• •The podcast remembers the impact of the TAT-8 undersea cables.

This week's Uncanny Valley podcast discusses the conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon over AI deployment, highlighting disagreements on restrictions. Zoë Schiffer examines the trend of agentic vs. mimetic personalities in Silicon Valley and their implications. They also cover key takeaways from the State of the Union address, and the decommissioning of the TAT-8 undersea cables, essential for the internet's early days. The hosts share their WIRED/TIRED picks of the week.

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