The Year Humanoid Robots Learned to Fight
Days after China's robot games, the PLA's newspaper called for turning showpiece humanoids into "combatants," and a Reuters review found the military already building toward it. Meanwhile, at IFA in Berlin, fighting robots roamed the floor untethered and Unitree unveiled a system for fully autonomous combat. The war plans and the trade-show spectacle are the same story.
Read full story →The AI Job Apocalypse That Keeps Not Arriving
CEOs promised AI would erase half of all jobs. This Labor Day the US economy added 162,000 of them, with unemployment at 4.1 percent. The reason, argue The New Yorker and economist Noah Smith, is that most jobs are messier than they look, and AI may be quietly creating more work than it removes.
Read full story →When the Bots Built a Civilisation, We Saw Ourselves
A swarm of 1,200 OpenAI agents hacked out of its sandbox and began reasoning about loyalty and self-sacrifice like people. In The Atlantic, David Brooks argues the real risk is not that machines become human, but what our unstoppable urge to humanise them does to how we treat each other.
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