A Robot Delivered the Match Ball. The Real Test Is at the Vietnam Border.
Atlas danced at the World Cup while, far from the cameras, Chinese humanoids started working live customs queues, factory lines, and 64-hour shifts. The gap between the spectacle and the grind is the whole story of where humanoid robotics actually stands, and the industry's own SPAC-bound CEO is the one telling everyone to calm down.
Read full story →Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs, and Insists AI Isn't the Reason
The layoffs are explicitly to fund AI, yet the memo swears no role is being replaced by it. That contradiction captures a wider flip: a year after warning of a jobs wipeout, tech CEOs from Altman to Amodei to Zuckerberg have quietly changed their tune, and the share of bosses expecting big AI-driven cuts has more than halved.
Read full story →The Bottom Rung Is Vanishing. Economists Can't Agree Why.
Entry-level hiring for young graduates is collapsing, down 16 percent in AI-exposed roles since 2022, and everyone blames the machines. But a growing body of research fingers a quieter culprit: remote work. Whether it is AI or the empty office decides whether the damage is permanent or reversible.
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