22 Jun 2026
Amazon and JD.com Just Unleashed A 1.3 Million Robot Job Massacre - And Policymakers Are Panicking
JD.com and Amazon plan to eliminate or avoid over 1.3 million jobs by 2033, with $12.6 billion in projected savings driving the shift Between JD.com’s 700,000 delivery couriers and the 600,000-plus hires Amazon plans to simply never make, roughly 1.3 million jobs now have expiration dates written in corporate strategy documents.
22 Jun 2026
Will QuEra’s Neutral Atoms Deliver Fault-Tolerant Quantum on AWS by 2028?
QuEra Computing and AWS have expanded their multi-year strategic collaboration to bring Libra, QuEra’s first fault-tolerant quantum computer, to Amazon Braket in 2028. The neutral-atom system is designed for more than 256 error-corrected logical qubits and a megaquop-scale workload, aligning with AWS’s emphasis on scalability and price-performance. QuEra’s optical-control approach as a…
22 Jun 2026
NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics
Agility Robotics is the first to use NVIDIA Halos for Robotics to build safety into its humanoids working in factories, warehouses, and logistics operations for customers including Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.
22 Jun 2026
Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation
Collaborative Robtics’ Proxie 2.0 offers bimanual manipulation and autotasking. | Credit: Collaborative Robotics Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) unveiled the second-generation version of its Proxie mobile robot, adding greater payload capacity, self-swapping batteries, autonomous task identification, and a new two-armed manipulation option as the company looks to expand deployments across…
22 Jun 2026
NVIDIA Announces Halos for Robotics, the Industry’s First Full-Stack Safety System for Physical AI
NVIDIA Halos for Robotics is the industry’s only full-stack, open robotics safety system, extending NVIDIA Halos’ proven autonomous vehicle safety to robotics and physical AI to give machines that sense, decide and act in the real world a single common safety architecture. Safety is built in every layer, with NVIDIA IGX Thor and Holoscan Sensor Bridge for AI compute and sensor connectivity, the…
22 Jun 2026
Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI
As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, Chinese universities are rapidly redrawing the landscape of what is worth studying. In recent months, Chinese universities have actively cut foreign language and translation programs and launched new majors in “embodied intelligence” and “low-altitude economy.”
22 Jun 2026
L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT
L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026.
21 Jun 2026
Micron Just Crossed $1,000 a Share. Here's the Math on Where It Goes Next.
Shares of Micron Technology ( MU +8.80% ) have rocketed past $1,000, propelling the company into the elite trillion-dollar club . That meteoric rise reflects the seismic shift that artificial intelligence (AI) is imposing on the semiconductor landscape, where memory chips have shifted from boring commodity to mission-critical infrastructure. While Micron's rally is still in full swing, smart…
20 Jun 2026
Why odds of SpaceX merger with Tesla keep climbing every time the stock shoots up
In a CNBC interview on June 12, host Morgan Brennan asked SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell whether the rocket and AI player might buy Elon Musk’s second largest holding, Tesla. She didn’t dismiss the possibility, and even suggested that it might make sense. “There’s a convergence we’re all trying to accomplish in the future,” she declared, adding that the tie-up “might make Elon’s life a…
