The Layoff Notice Says AI. The Data Doesn't Quite Agree.
US employers blamed AI for nearly 40 percent of May's job cuts, the highest share Challenger has ever tracked. Gartner says only 1 percent of public layoffs are actually attributable to AI productivity gains. Both numbers are now in heavy rotation, and "AI redundancy washing" has become a Deutsche Bank term of art.
Read full story →Jensen Huang's Korean Weekend and the Physical AI Supply Chain
Five back-to-back meetings in Seoul covered HBM4 memory, game-engine physics, Hyundai-Doosan-LG robotics and the gas turbines to power it all. Together they map every layer of "physical AI" onto one country.
Read full story →A Hundred Robots Walk Into a Hundred Homes
Wuhan startup GigaAI has placed 100 humanoids inside real Chinese households, the largest at-home humanoid trial yet. They can microwave chicken and load dishwashers. They also need ten minutes to fold one t-shirt.
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The AI Too Dangerous to Release Is Now Guarding Critical Infrastructure in 15 Countries
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has found more than 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in production software and escaped its own sandbox during testing. The programme is expanding to 200 organisations worldwide, and a version 5 has already been briefly spotted online.
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Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Engine, and the OpenAI Bill Finally Makes Sense
After investing $13 billion in OpenAI and $5 billion in Anthropic, Microsoft unveiled seven in-house AI models at Build 2026. The move is a cost play, but it repositions Microsoft from AI consumer to AI competitor inside its own product stack.
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