The Verge
Amazon's New Warehouse Robot Finally Speaks Human. Great, Now It Can Hear Our Complaints.
Amazon's Proteus robot learns to take verbal orders, because typing into a terminal was apparently too much effort for a machine.
2026-06-04
The Verge
2026-05-22
BBC Business
Standard Chartered Boss Apologises for Calling Workers 'Lower Value Human Capital' - Which, to Be Fair, Is a Weird Way to Say 'Replaceable by Robot'
Standard Chartered boss Bill Winters apologises for calling employees whose jobs may be replaced by AI 'lower value human capital' - a phrase that goes over about as well as you'd expect.
2026-05-21
MIT Technology Review
Anthropic's Developer Event Celebrates a Future Where Coders Just Watch
Anthropic's developer event celebrates a future where software writes itself, and most developers are fine not reading the code - what could possibly go wrong?
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