Seven in Ten Americans Want Half of the AI Industry. The Alarm Came From Inside It.
A Verasight poll finds 69% back forcing AI firms to hand 50% of their stock to a public wealth fund, the policy in Bernie Sanders's new bill. Days later, 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates signed a warning about job displacement, co-signed by the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic. The public has picked a remedy before the evidence is in.
Read full story →Everyone Blames AI for the Layoffs. The Companies Doing the Cutting Say It Isn't.
Mentions of AI alongside layoffs on earnings calls have gone from under five a quarter to more than a hundred, yet Microsoft and Amazon both deny AI drove their cuts. Underneath the headlines, Americans filed 1.56 million new business applications in three months, a record. One founder describes her company as "me, my dog, and about 40 AI agents."
Read full story →OpenAI's Safety Chief Is Leaving. His Job Is Being Folded Into Research.
Johannes Heidecke is out, and OpenAI's safety teams will now report to its head of research. The company's argument is sound: you cannot judge safety without understanding capability. The problem is that integration and capture look identical on an org chart, and OpenAI has lost its safety leadership three times before.
Read full story →The Humanoid Race Has Narrowed to a Single Problem: Hands
1X says its new 25-degree-of-freedom hand has solved robotics' hardest challenge, though the demo robot was partly remote-controlled. Everyone else has stopped waiting: Robot.com is renting humanoids to restaurants where staff turnover runs above 130%, and its pitch is not intelligence but that "R-noid never resigns."
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