China's Robots Are Getting Real Orders. Washington Just Slammed the Door.
The Beijing robot games gave the cameras a sprinter faster than Usain Bolt. The number that actually matters is the purchase orders: UBTECH's $119M in carmaker deals, CATL's battery-line contracts, a record $6.3B valuation for a unit that has shipped nothing. Now the US has barred foreign humanoids, and Singapore is being pitched as the way around the ban.
Read full story →Half of 2026's Layoffs Blame AI. Inside Meta, the Bet Quietly Collapsed.
Reuters revealed Project OT, Meta's plan to go AI-native by cutting some teams up to 60%. Zuckerberg killed the second wave hours before it began, after the company's own data showed code up 220% but shipped features up just 36%, and incidents climbing. The loud layoff narrative keeps colliding with messier evidence underneath.
Read full story →New York Makes Brands Confess When the Model Is Fake. Washington Wants to Undo It.
New York's first-of-its-kind synthetic performers law just drew its first four complaints, and Amazon is already citing it. But the bigger fight is not about disclosure. The FTC calls states like New York "anti-innovation" and wants a single national framework, raising the prospect of striking down state rules without enforcing its own.
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