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US Navy shipbuilder commits up to $900 million to robot welding and sanding firms
Huntington Ingalls Industries is betting nearly a billion dollars that AI-driven robots can build warships faster than human crews alone.
Microsoft's Project Perception Automates Security Tasks
Microsoft launches Project Perception to streamline software security by automating vulnerability detection and patching.
Google studied 15 million real AI interactions and found workers aren't automating themselves out of a job
A new Google Research paper looked at how people actually use Gemini at work. The headline finding: AI helps with pieces of tasks, but end-to-end job replacement is rare.
Small Businesses Are Using AI to Help Workers, Not Replace Them
A window company owner spent $10,000 on an AI tool that listens to sales conversations and writes up quotes automatically. His staff serve more customers. Nobody lost a job.
British Gas owner says customers prefer chatbots as it cuts 1,300 call centre jobs
Centrica is axing 1,300 staff, with the boss claiming most people would rather deal with an AI chatbot than a human agent. Workers and unions see things differently.
Will AI take my job? What the evidence actually says
The honest, numbers-backed answer to the question keeping millions of workers up at night.
What is an AI agent? A plain-English guide
AI agents are programs that can set their own mini-goals and take actions in the world, not just answer a question and stop.
Physical AI: The Dollars and Sense of Robotics
Billions in venture capital are flowing into robots that learn on the job. Here is what that money tells us about where automation is headed.
AI Is Changing Who Gets Hired and Who Gets Left Behind
Job anxiety is spreading across every age group and profession. Here is what that shift actually looks like for ordinary workers, and what it means for the people caught in it.
AI is cutting jobs. Here are the human skills that still matter
A public sector worker facing his second restructure in two years puts a face on a fear millions share. Workplace psychologists say three skills can keep you ahead.
Hyundai Workers Strike Over Humanoid Robots in a Car Industry First
Thousands of unionized workers in South Korea are cutting shifts short and planning longer stoppages after 15 rounds of talks failed to resolve fears about a six-foot robot that can lift over 100 pounds.
DoorDash Is Building a Tool That Lets AI Software Place Food Orders on Its Own
A new command-line tool from DoorDash lets developers and AI agents search restaurants, fill a cart, and check out without ever opening an app. It's a small but telling sign of where online services are heading.
One operator, one button: Xpanner's robot arm now lifts solar panels so crews don't have to
A California startup has turned a standard excavator into an automated solar panel lifter, cutting a ten-person manual crew down to three.
Apple Researchers Built a Virtual User to Test AI Assistants Before Real People Do
A new research framework simulates the back-and-forth of real app use, so proactive AI assistants can be tested and scored without putting actual users at risk.
AI agents are being trusted with more decisions than companies can actually verify
A new survey finds half of enterprises have already shipped an AI agent that passed internal tests and then broke something for a real customer. Only 5% fully trust the testing that is supposed to catch those failures.