AI & Work
AI Didn't Fire the Graduates. It Just Stopped Opening the Door.
Agency owners now admit out loud that they have stopped hiring college grads. The layoffs never came; the job postings simply did not. And the one thing that shields a worker from AI, experience, is exactly what the vanishing first job used to hand out.
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AI Safety
The Company That Sells the Shovels Now Wants to Sell the Safety Harness.
Nvidia launched a platform to keep AI agents from going rogue, days after Jensen Huang called the labs' slowdown warnings "odd." His pitch: containment is an engineering problem, not an existential one. OpenAI is conspicuously not on the partner list.
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Robotics
One Robot Learned to Cry. Another Learned to Fall Over. Both Are Doing the Same Job.
A Chinese robot sheds a tear on command; humanoids faceplant at the Beijing games to millions of delighted viewers. Neither is an accident. Making machines emotionally acceptable has become its own engineering discipline, and the target is us.
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