AI Is Eating the Career Ladder From Both Ends
Ford quietly rehired around 350 veteran engineers after its AI quality systems fell short, part of a wider "AI boomerang." At the same time, the entry-level jobs that once produced those veterans are vanishing. The machine is chewing at the top of the ladder and sawing off the bottom.
Read full story →The Robot Wall an AI Could Not Climb
In Anthropic's latest test, a general-purpose model programmed an off-the-shelf robot dog far faster than human teams, with no robotics training. Then it hit the one task it could not do, real-time control, and that failure is the most instructive part of the result.
Read full story →The Central Bankers' Bank Just Compared AI to the Railway Bust
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI investment boom resembles the manias that ended in recession, from canals to dotcom. Optimists counter that this time the productivity is real. Both cannot be right, and the gap between them is about money, not magic.
Read full story →The Humanoid Robots Are Scaling. Ordinary Workers Are Teaching Them.
One Chinese firm just built its 15,000th robot. But the real bottleneck is not bodies or brains, it is experience, now being harvested from sewing-machine operators and masons wearing head cameras, many of whom were never told why, or paid for what they know.
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