AI Is Losing the Popularity Contest. That Could Upend the Industry's Biggest IPOs.
Public opinion on AI is turning negative at exactly the wrong moment for OpenAI and Anthropic, both widely expected to list this year. Job displacement, data center opposition, and growing evidence that token demand may be partially inflated are creating headwinds that no amount of revenue growth can simply outrun.
Read full story →DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Can Now Read Gauges and Navigate the Real World
Google DeepMind's upgraded embodied reasoning model does not promise general robot intelligence. Instead, it solves specific real-world problems: reading industrial pressure gauges, detecting task success, and counting objects on a factory floor. These unglamorous capabilities, developed with Boston Dynamics, are what turn demonstrations into deployments.
Read full story →New Zealand's Newsrooms Are Drawing Lines on AI. The Lines Look Remarkably Similar.
RNZ, Te Waha Nui, and E tū have each published AI policies without coordinating, and reached near-identical conclusions: humans write the news, AI assists at the margins, and transparency with audiences is non-negotiable. The harder question is whether those lines hold in newsrooms without the resources to enforce them.
Read full story →84 Percent Adoption. 29 Percent Trust. Listen to That Gap.
Journalists and software developers are having almost identical conversations right now: high adoption, collapsing trust, entry-level work disappearing, and an industry narrative of "augmentation not replacement" that consistently protects senior workers while the junior end is quietly removed.
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