The Humanoid Robot Boom Has a Beijing-Shaped Asterisk
SoftBank, Goldman, Wedbush and Barclays are all calling humanoids the next trillion-dollar opportunity. The deployments at Toyota, BMW and Hyundai are real, the price curve from $200,000 to $40,000 is real, and the volume leader is a Chinese company legally required to assist state intelligence. None of those things cancel each other out.
Read full story →AI Is Now the Leading Reason Companies Give for Cutting Jobs
May tech layoffs spiked to 38,242, the steepest month since early 2023. Challenger says AI is now the most-cited rationale for cuts of any kind. Block, Cloudflare, Coinbase and Wisetech aren't just trimming, they're rewriting their operating philosophy in public.
Read full story →The Ninth Circuit Has Now Drawn the Line on AI-Hallucinated Briefs
Two lawyers fined $2,500 and suspended six months after a brief cited cases that didn't exist. The appeals court used the order to spell out what proper consequences look like, and warned that subtle inaccuracies may matter more than the obvious fabrications.
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