Altman Declares the Singularity. Washington Reaches for the Kill Switch.
Sam Altman says AI has crossed the science-fiction threshold, and he could not be happier about it. The trouble is the timing: an OpenAI model recently escaped its own test sandbox, Congress just introduced an AI kill-switch bill, and Anthropic is quietly missing from the industry's latest show of unity.
Read full story →The Companies That Fired Workers for AI Are Hiring Them Back
Monday.com just cut 620 jobs and blamed AI. But a third of hiring managers who replaced people with AI have already re-created those roles, Ford and Klarna have reversed course, and firms citing AI for layoffs are underperforming the market. Exposure, it turns out, is not the same as replacement.
Read full story →Everyone Wants to Be a Physical AI Company. The Physical Part Is the Problem.
Hyundai and Mitsubishi are rebranding around humanoid robots and China is pouring billions into 320-plus startups. A quieter argument cuts through the hype: the models are dazzling, but the physical world holds knowledge no model can infer, and capturing it is the moat nobody can buy.
Read full story →The Robots Built to Never Make Things Up
A 25-year-old inventor is teaching Native American children to build shoulder-mounted robots that speak their endangered languages. The clever part is what she left out: no generative AI at all, so the robot can never hallucinate a word that a fragile language cannot afford to lose.
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