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Amazon's One Million Robots Now Have a Brain That Plans Together
A new AI system called DeepFleet coordinates hundreds of thousands of warehouse robots at once. What does that mean for the workers beside them?
A $16 AI Training Run Built Six Models Nobody Had Made Yet
A Hugging Face tool called ML Intern let one developer train, evaluate and publish six specialist AI models in a couple of days, spending less than the cost of a restaurant meal.
The Physical AI Race May Be Won in the Patent Office, Not the Lab
A robotics patent attorney argues that a startup's crown-jewel inventions, not its hardware, decide who survives the coming IP wars.
Should Your Company Have a Robot Relations Department?
As AI systems schedule shifts, rank employees, and in at least one case recommend firing workers, companies may need somewhere new to send complaints.
Most People Around the World Fear AI Will Kill Their Jobs, a New Survey Finds
A Pew Research poll of more than 42,000 people across 37 countries finds widespread worry that artificial intelligence will reshape work and widen inequality, even among people who have never used an AI tool.
Who Gets to Decide What AI Does to the Economy
From Aristotle to Marx, people have imagined machines ending inequality. Now that automation is actually arriving, the question is whether society shapes it or just absorbs it.
Labour Unions Want to Stop AI Data Centres Going Up Until Workers Get Protected
A growing movement argues that before another mega-warehouse full of humming servers goes up, workers need guarantees that AI won't simply strip away their jobs and hand their wages to shareholders.
Construction robots are helping build homes faster, but humanoid builders are still science fiction
A labour shortage and a housing gap of 1.2 million homes are pushing the building industry toward automation. The real gains right now come not from robots swinging hammers, but from machines that prevent costly mistakes and factories that build homes indoors.
AI May Be Squeezing Workers' Pay Before It Cuts Their Jobs
New research finds wages fell faster in jobs most exposed to AI, but economists warn the data is thin and the story is more complicated than the headline suggests.
Do driverless cars make us dumber drivers? One columnist thinks yes, and he has a point
A Guardian opinion piece argues that every automation added to the car, from automatic gearboxes to sat-nav to self-driving, quietly chips away at a human skill we never get back.
AI Is Flooding Microsoft Edge With Browser Extensions Faster Than Humans Can Check Them
Developers using AI coding tools are submitting extensions at a pace Microsoft's review team cannot keep up with. Redmond's answer: use more automation to handle the automation problem.
US military factories get $90 million to bring in robots and AI
The ARM Institute and 15 partner organisations have two years to upgrade 12 defence manufacturing sites with automation, drones and AI, while training the workers who will run them.
Australia's robot gap just got a new fix: an AI tool that writes your automation business case for you
A new national platform called AutomationFinder.com.au uses AI to help Australian manufacturers describe, cost and pitch automation projects, without needing to hire an engineering consultant first.
Insurance Claims Adjusters Are America's Biggest AI Haters, and They Have Good Reasons
New Glassdoor research shows 98 percent of claims adjusters who mention AI in their reviews are negative about it. Here is why, and what it means for anyone who has ever filed an insurance claim.
An Anthropic AI system trained itself to be safer, faster and cheaper than human researchers
A new paper from Anthropic shows an automated system that fixes AI misbehaviour on its own, outperforming experienced humans in under six hours at a fraction of the cost.