California Told the Robots to Stop Hitting People
A startup put a YouTuber in a cage with three Terminator-styled humanoids and billed it as the first human-versus-robot fight. California sent a cease-and-desist. The detail everyone missed: the robots were remote-controlled puppets, so the only thing fighting was another human.
Read full story →Silicon Valley Is Paying $10,000 to See What It's Up Against
Venture capitalists are flying to China by the planeload to tour robot factories, not to invest but to measure how far behind their own portfolio companies have fallen. Chinese firms shipped 71% of the world's humanoids last year. The cognition gap, one investor found, is another story.
Read full story →The AI Jobs Apocalypse Was Cancelled. The Rewrite Wasn't.
A new Workday report and a strong US jobs print say AI isn't gutting payrolls. But the same data shows the ladder being pulled up: stalled promotions, shrinking entry-level work, and a quiet reshuffle of who gets to climb. Not panic, not relief, something harder to govern.
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