China's Robots Can Backflip. They Still Can't Fold a Shirt.
Unitree's stock soared 460% on its Shanghai debut, valuing the humanoid-robot maker at tens of billions and its founder at over $12 billion. Yet at the same week's showcase, one machine spent minutes failing to fold a shirt, and Unitree's own founder quietly pushed the industry's breakthrough moment out to as far as a decade away.
Read full story →AI Gets the Blame for the Layoffs. The Data Is Not So Sure.
More than 180,000 job cuts have been pinned on AI since 2023. Goldman Sachs finds the squeeze is genuinely real in call centres and entry-level roles. But a chorus of economists says AI has become a flattering cover story for ordinary cost-cutting, and investors are not always buying it either.
Read full story →India's AI Rules Are Optional. The Chips They Run On Are Not.
India chose a deliberately light touch for governing AI: voluntary principles, self-certification, innovation over restraint. But the harder limit on Indian AI was set in Washington, which licenses the Nvidia chips the whole national effort quietly depends on.
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