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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
THE ROBOT RUNS ON YOUR HANDS
This week the industry said physical AI had arrived. It arrived because an iPhone was strapped to a medical student's forehead in Nigeria. "Physical AI has arrived — every industrial
FUNDED IN AN AFTERNOON.
One robot company raised up to $1.4 billion on June 10. The federal program built to catch the workers it replaces has been dark since 2022. "The future of AI
The Forty-Trillion-Dollar Headcount
Jensen Huang keeps calling humanoid robots a $40 trillion market. He's not wrong about the number. He's just calling a payroll a market and hoping nobody checks whose.
THE COMPANY TOWN SAID NO.
On Tuesday, Seattle became the largest city in America to pause the AI buildout. The sharpest testimony came from Amazon's own engineers. On Tuesday morning, June 9, more than fifty
You Already Said Yes
Nobody voted for the control system. It was ratified one checkbox at a time. The signature at the bottom is yours. 0. This morning, before your coffee finished brewing, you agreed to
UBI Is the Merger
They don't need to take over. They just need to become the government. 0. Spartanburg, South Carolina. BMW's biggest plant on Earth. Over eleven months, a humanoid robot
ONE THURSDAY. TWO RULEBOOKS.
Washington moved to freeze the states' AI laws on Thursday. The same day, the actors ratified the strongest AI protections in America — the ones they wrote themselves. On Thursday, June 4,
The Walkback
They spent three years telling us AI would take our jobs. Now they're saying they were wrong. Ask yourself why. Sam Altman, May 2026, at a conference in Sydney: "