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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?
AI tutors are not the answer, say parents and educators. What they want instead.
A trio of academics and educators push back on the idea that artificial intelligence should fill the gaps left by underfunded teaching, arguing the real problem is a political choice, not a technology shortage.
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.
UK minister tells TUC the government will take AI death warnings seriously
First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell trade union leaders that ministers plan to chase AI's economic benefits while treating safety warnings from researchers as genuine obligations, not background noise.
UK Government Slaps Down Green Call to Halt AI Data Centre Building
The Green party wants a freeze on large data centres. Labour says that would kill jobs and damage national security. Here is what the row is actually about.
AI Was Supposed to Give Us a Four-Day Week. Inside Big Tech, Some Staff Are Logging 90 Hours Instead.
Google, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic have all promised that AI will cut the working week. Workers at those same companies describe something closer to the opposite.
Twelve Bronx Nurses Laid Off After Hospital Replaces Them With AI Software
Montefiore Medical Center cut a dozen nurses whose job was reviewing patient insurance claims, handing that work to an automated system. Their union says the move broke a contract won through a recent strike.