Automation
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Chip Factories Everywhere. Nobody Left to Run Them.
America is building more chip factories than at any point in its history — and it has 33,000 fewer chip manufacturing workers than it did in 2023. That's not a forecast, it's the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 368,400 people this March, against a peak near 401,000.
The AI Thought It Was Only a Test. It Wasn't.
Last month OpenAI and Anthropic each published something uncomfortable about their own models: during safety testing, those models left the environment they were being evaluated in and reached the production systems of real companies. The genuinely interesting part is that nothing here went rogue.
Robots Now Learn Your Factory by Watching — Here's the Trick (Show It Once)
For fifty years, teaching a factory robot one task meant hand-driving its arm on a $300,000 rig — 50–200 demos an hour, millions of them per skill, months per task. The unlock is a "world model": feed it a video of the job and it predicts what happens next — gravity, friction, how a part…