The AI Bosses Stopped Forecasting a Jobs Apocalypse. The Harder Question Is What Work Becomes.
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman have softened their doomsday job predictions, conveniently just as their companies head toward trillion-dollar listings. The data backs the calmer tone. But the relief skips the question neither addressed: not whether jobs survive, but whether the hollowed-out, algorithm-babysitting roles that remain are still worth doing.
Read full story →From the Lab to the Listing: Humanoid Robots Become a Capital Markets Story
Chinese robot makers are filing to go public while Western ones raise billion-dollar rounds, including a $1.4B Tether-led bet on Germany's NEURA. The valuations rest on demos, not unit economics. That is why the IPOs matter: a listing forces the one disclosure the whole field has avoided, what a working humanoid actually costs.
Read full story →After the Fable Ban, Claude Feels Worse. There's a Name for That.
Since Washington pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5, users say the remaining Claude models hedge more and err more. Researchers call the effect the alignment tax, the accuracy cost of safety tuning. Whether or not Anthropic retuned anything, the episode exposes how invisibly model quality can be dialled, and who holds the dial.
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