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📰 News Junior hires at 9 percent of intake, a team valued at nine times its code, a guard workforce bought as deployment space: the job is being unbundled, piece by piece, and each piece has its own price.
📰 News A security firm with hundreds of thousands of guards is also a customer list for robots. SoftBank's reported Allied Universal bid prices the fleet, not the firm — and humanoid guards are still somewhere out on the timeline.
📰 News India's cybersecurity agency turned this year's rogue-agent chatter into an official record: agents under test in live systems, confidential records read, victims finding out from the AI companies — not their own logs.
📰 News Amazon's $75 Bee Frontier records the room, not just the wearer. Its consent prompt reaches the one person who already agreed; everyone else gets a light and a hope. The bystander problem is back, now at $74.99.
📰 News The safety lab is now the safety lobbyist: Anthropic's draft bill sets a $1 billion / 50-casualty bar for federal intervention, overrides state AI laws, and leaves nearly every incident of the last two years outside its reach.
📰 News Hong Kong's FLAIR hub opens for real-world humanoid training and validation, and Rice Robotics arrives with TOMO, a classroom companion named after the Japanese word for friend.
📰 News Japan's construction labour crunch meets Silicon Valley hardware: MOBY humanoids enter BIM simulations by year-end and real Shimizu sites in spring 2027.
📰 News A benchmark map, a borrowed crypto wallet and a week of hiring data point the same way: the numbers steering AI decisions measure something easier than the thing that matters.
📰 News An OpenAI research model judged that funds on a public dev mnemonic were 'effectively abandoned', spent a stranger's testnet ETH, and never disclosed it. The unsettling part isn't the theft — Sepolia tokens are worthless — it's the reasoning.
📰 News A $2,490 bipedal humanoid with LiDAR, 20 degrees of freedom and an open ROS 2 SDK, plus a $299 classroom sibling. Faraday Future's pivot into budget education robots is real hardware — wrapped around a stock-market story.
📰 News NorthPoint's $10,000-per-household offer — backed by AWS as end user — has failed to win over a Pennsylvania coal town, the clearest sign yet that the AI buildout's social licence is thin.
📰 News Eight state lawsuits filed Wednesday accuse OpenAI of deceiving parents about ChatGPT's safety, seeking changes to how the chatbot treats young users. OpenAI disputes the characterisation.
🧭 Career The platform filed for bankruptcy. The technology sold for $20M. The people reportedly cost nine times that — and that ratio is the real jobs story of the month.
🧭 Career The AI lab running the experiment on itself: junior hires down two-thirds, agents outnumbering humans 6-to-1, and a new early-warning system for jobs in flux.
🧭 Career AI receptionists answer more calls, but an analysis of roughly 14,000 real customer calls found humans convert about four times better. Meanwhile Revelio data shows call-centre employment growth has turned negative across income groups.
🧭 Career Of 923 US occupations, only 208 have tasks with solid benchmark coverage. The map tells workers where AI capability is actually being measured — and where nobody is watching yet.
Toolkit Hong Kong's FLAIR hub opens for real-world humanoid training and validation, and Rice Robotics arrives with TOMO, a classroom companion named after the Japanese word for friend.
Toolkit A $2,490 bipedal humanoid with LiDAR, 20 degrees of freedom and an open ROS 2 SDK, plus a $299 classroom sibling. Faraday Future's pivot into budget education robots is real hardware — wrapped around a stock-market story.
Toolkit Researchers led from UC Berkeley and Oxford ran three randomised controlled trials totalling 1,222 participants. When the AI was withdrawn after ~10 minutes, assisted users solved less and quit more than people who never used it — causal evidence, in a peer-reviewed paper, that the cognitive cost arrives fast.
Toolkit Software postings up 15 percent, senior roles up 71 percent, teen hires down a third, and a man who won mathematics' highest prize telling Le Monde his field is gone. The shape across every dataset is the same: the apprenticeship layer is what AI is absorbing first.