{"podcast":{"title":"Uncanny Valley | WIRED","slug":"uncanny-valley-wired-827527","podcast_index_feed_id":827527,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CNE6423132305","website_url":"https://www.wired.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/6828dcf0-73c7-11f1-8e44-4334db49fd73/image/2969f8841f8d21a4d8f7e1f7c49dedb6.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"WIRED","episode_count":455,"summary":"Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley—where each week, WIRED’s writers and editors bring you original reporting and analysis about some of the biggest stories in tech. On Tuesdays, The Big Interview with WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond in conversation with influential figures in culture, politics, business, science, and beyond for a discussion captured through the WIRED lens. On Thursdays, WIRED writers and editors Zoë Schiffer, Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger add you to the Slack group thread to let you into what they’re hearing from sources in Silicon Valley and D.C, read you into what trends you should be watching for and how WIRED is thinking about it all.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T00:19:12.139072+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncanny-valley-wired-827527"},"episode":{"title":"Iran Targets U.S. Tech; Polymarket’s Bar Flop; Trump's Plans for Midterms","slug":"iran-targets-u-s-tech-polymarket-s-bar-flop-trump-s-plans-for-midterms","published_at":"2026-04-02T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncanny-valley-wired-827527/iran-targets-u-s-tech-polymarket-s-bar-flop-trump-s-plans-for-midterms","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncanny-valley-wired-827527","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_5901_27636e75-b3ae-49e3-a3ff-dd3905c3d0c2&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F5901%2Fgadget-lab","audio_url":"https://pdrl.fm/e44d6f/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/uJwtcKQUPuqBQPfusm59/dovetail.prxu.org/5901/27636e75-b3ae-49e3-a3ff-dd3905c3d0c2/Uncanny_Valley_S2E10_Mix2_040126.mp3","summary":"The team is back this week to discuss how top U.S tech companies are increasingly finding themselves as targets in the ongoing war with Iran. We also get an inside view into how Polymarket’s pop-up bar in D.C went sideways. Plus, we go through the steps that the Trump administration is taking to control the upcoming midterm elections. Articles mentioned in this episode: Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1 | WIRED Polymarket’s Coming-Out Party in Washington Was a Disaster | WIRED This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms | WIRED Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from Alexis Ohanian's newest tech venture to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices","meta_description":"The team is back this week to discuss how top U.S tech companies are increasingly finding themselves as targets in the ongoing war with Iran. We also get…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1657,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uncanny-valley-wired-827527/episodes/iran-targets-u-s-tech-polymarket-s-bar-flop-trump-s-plans-for-midterms/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncanny-valley-wired-827527/iran-targets-u-s-tech-polymarket-s-bar-flop-trump-s-plans-for-midterms.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}