Washington Finally Wants to Regulate AI. It Cannot Agree on Anything Else.
The labs are asking to be reined in, and for once Congress is listening. But lawmakers are leaving town for the election, a White House civil war pits Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent against David Sacks, and a left-right revolt from Bernie Sanders to Steve Bannon has left everyone urgent and immobile.
Read full story →In China, the Robots Have Started Building the Robots
A new UBTECH factory in Liuzhou ships a humanoid roughly every ten minutes, much of the assembly done by other humanoids. With Xpeng's Iron walking off its own line and chipmaker D-Robotics raising $400m, the humanoid story has quietly moved from the demo stage to the factory floor.
Read full story →The Robot That Ducks: How Humanoids Get Out of Their Cages
Agility's new Digit 5 is engineered to duck, stop, or sit down when a person comes near, and San Mateo County just built the first permit system for workplace robots. The hard part is no longer teaching a humanoid to walk. It is convincing a workplace, a regulator and an insurer to trust it.
Read full story →Half of Americans Now Fear an AI Takes Their Job. The Data Doesn't Agree Yet.
A decade-long Texas Tech study finds fear of AI-driven job loss has tripled to nearly 50 percent, with no measurable link to actual unemployment. Then Oracle cut another round of staff and blamed AI in its filings. Perception and evidence are pulling apart, and the fear keeps climbing.
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