Leaked Amazon Plans Say Robots Will Help It Avoid Hiring 600,000 Workers

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Agility Digit robot at an Amazon warehouse.

I spent 4 nights at a robot hotel in Tokyo. The future of hospitality is here — but it still needs fine-tuning.

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Yotel Tokyo Ginza is a hybrid-robot hotel that opened earlier this year.

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Google Cloud's CEO says he doesn't buy into the hype that AI is going to automate everyone's jobs

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Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, weighed in on the AI hype.

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This is the job OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he'd do if AI ever replaces him

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Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, photographed in Berlin
Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, photographed in Berlin

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I got a $99 massage from an AI robot and will probably never do it again. Here's why, and what surprised me the most.

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Remedy Place is a social wellness club in NYC, and it is just one of the many places in the US that offer AI massages.

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China Outpaces Rest of World in Working Robots

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AI will augment high-skilled jobs but hit clerical work hardest, Australia's government predicts

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The Independent Shellfishermen's Co-operative (ISC) Company Secretary, Joanne Ackers, completes export paperwork for an order at Bridlington Harbour in Bridlington, England, on January 31, 2025.
An Australian government report projects that generative AI will automate many clerical jobs and transform high-skill roles by 2050.

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The CEOs of Din Tai Fung think robots would ruin their iconic soup dumplings

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Din Tai Fung's offerings.
Din Tai Fung is leaving dumpling-making to humans for now.

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Trump's tariffs are putting the robots to work

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Formic's automated palletizer works in a facility.

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Sam's Club CEO says automating stores isn't a move to eliminate jobs

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Sam's Club CEO Chris Nicholas said he spent time stocking shelves and pricing items as a teenager in the UK.

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