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Subscribe Free$3.5 Billion for the Brain, but Figure’s Tin Man Still Needs to prove he can Work
Figure AI signed a multi-year deal this week for $3.5 billion in compute, with intent to push past $6 billion. Up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs. First machines
They Are Their Own Best Customers
On August 26 in Seoul, Hyundai’s chief executive put numbers on a plan the company has talked around for a year. A robotics factory in the United States. Production in 2028.
Faster Than Bolt
The second World Humanoid Robot Games opened in Beijing last Saturday. More than two thousand humanoid robots entered from sixteen countries. On the opening day a machine from the Beijing Humanoid Robot
The Gap Still Remains
Capital keeps arriving. Model updates keep arriving. Manufacturing claims keep arriving. Verified readiness does not. In the first half of 2026 alone, investors put more than four billion dollars into humanoid robotics
The public put a price on humanoids, what does this mean for our future?
This week the open market put its first real price on a humanoid company. The amount of money people were willing to put down says more than any demo stage would. On
So Wait For The Study?
Monday morning in Sacramento, California decides whether a worker gets any warning before the machine takes the desk. The people fighting it say wait for the study. On Monday morning, in a
Amazon refines AI budget, what is the cost?
Amazon named its AI budget this week. It did not account for the people it cut to pay for it. On July 22, Amazon told some of the people who build its
They Only Admit It Under Oath
Oracle blamed AI in their SEC filing. New York State asked for the same information for a year and only got a blank page in return. On June 22, Oracle filed its
THEY NEVER ASKED YOU.
William Shi runs a company called Agibot, one of the Chinese firms racing to put humanoid robots on factory floors. Asked recently about the jobs his machines are built to take, he
FIFTY COBOTS CLOCK IN AT FACTORY ZERO
The UAW says GM's new robots are doing union work. The grievances are filed. James Cotton is the president of UAW Local 22, and he represents the people who build
YOU'RE FIRED! WAIT NO, PLEASE COME BACK
Ford spent three years calling back the engineers its AI was supposed to replace. They aren'y the only company quietly regretting replacing critical employees. In Dearborn, Michigan, Ford has spent
ROBOTS ARE COMING, LAYOFFS ARE HERE
The layoffs are real and they are happening now. The robots blamed for them are mostly still losing to staircases. In spreadsheets a crossed corporate America this year, 185,894 people stopped