Boston Dynamics Can Make Robots Move. Now It Wants One That Can Think.
Hyundai handed its famous robot company to the executive who built Alexa, not to a roboticist. The message is hard to miss: the backflips are solved, and the brain is the hard part now. The supply chain for the body, meanwhile, still runs through China.
Read full story →California Just Told the Algorithm It Cannot Fire You Alone
Four new California laws put guardrails around workplace AI. The headline act stops a boss from outsourcing a firing to a machine, but the fine print, and one undefined word, will decide how much it really matters.
Read full story →China Writes the World's Boldest AI-Safety Rules. Its Labs Barely Read Them.
A new analysis of 857 Chinese model releases finds fewer than four percent ever came with a published safety test. Beijing's frontier rulebook is fierce on paper and almost entirely optional in practice, and the race with America is the reason.
Read full story →AI Isn't Erasing Jobs. It's Deciding Who Gets the Rewards.
A 41-country study finds AI adoption grows headcount while hollowing out the junior rung. A sweeping look at India asks the question nobody wants to: when machines lift output, who actually pockets the gains?
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