The Door Shuts: America Bans the Robots It Cannot Yet Build
The FCC has added foreign humanoid and four-legged robots to its Covered List, effectively barring new imports on national security grounds. It cuts China's dominant makers off from their richest market weeks before a Trump-Xi summit, and shelters American startups that are not yet shipping at scale.
Read full story →The Students First Act: The Teenagers Who Did Congress's Homework
Ninety-eight teens from all 50 states gathered in a replica Senate chamber and passed the AI school policy that real lawmakers never have. Their bill is not law, but 10,000 school leaders are about to read it, and its take on chatbots and crisis is sharper than many commercial products.
Read full story →The First Rung: Where the AI Jobs Squeeze Actually Bites
Big Tech headcount is drifting sideways as record sums pour into AI. In South Africa, the same automation is quietly removing the entry-level call-centre jobs young workers climb in on. The aggregate may hold up; the distribution is the whole story.
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