The Money Is Betting on Robots the Factory Floor Hasn't Delivered
Unitree's shares jumped roughly 500 percent on their Shanghai debut, valuing the robot maker near $62 billion, and Figure just signed a compute deal worth up to $6 billion. Yet only about one in ten humanoids produced last year reached real work, and the best-selling industrial model runs at half a human's pace. Two clocks are ticking, and the capital has already chosen which one to trust.
Read full story →The Justice Department Just Took OpenAI's Side Against the New York Times
In a rare intervention in a private copyright suit, the DOJ told a federal court this week that training AI on copyrighted writing is fair use, and cast the question as one of national security against China. The Times called it siding with trillion-dollar companies against the creators whose work they took. The filing lands just as OpenAI heads for an IPO.
Read full story →The Government Is Automating Itself, and No One Can Be Fired for It
Federal agencies now report 3,611 uses of AI, 445 of them able to shape decisions with legal weight for a citizen. Assembled piece by piece, they add up to a bureaucracy that collapses the separations meant to keep it accountable. Michigan and Australia already ran versions of this and got it catastrophically wrong. A workflow, unlike a civil servant, cannot be fired.
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