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Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future

The Guardian

Amazon is reportedly developing'humanoid' robots to pop out of delivery vans to deliver packages, eventually replacing the work of delivery drivers. Amazon is reportedly developing'humanoid' robots to pop out of delivery vans to deliver packages, eventually replacing the work of delivery drivers. O ne of the reasons Amazon is spending billions on robots? They don't need bathroom breaks. Arriving a few minutes early to the public tour of Amazon's hi-tech Stone Mountain, Georgia, warehouse, my request to visit the restroom was met with a resounding no from the security guard in the main lobby.


Waymo Hits a Rough Patch In Washington, DC

WIRED

The company's robotaxi service is supposed to launch in the US capital this year. But while service rollouts have been relatively smooth in other cities, DC's rules have made things tricky. Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary that develops self-driving vehicle tech, has picked up speed. The company now operates robotaxis in six cities and has announced plans to launch in a dozen others this year. It j ust raised $16 billion in a new round of funding and says it has served over 20 million rides since the company launched its service in 2020, 14 million of them in 2025 alone.


Chuck Schumer under fire after brazenly calling voter ID 'Jim Crow 2.0'

FOX News

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced backlash after calling voter ID legislation "Jim Crow 2.0" and vowing to block the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to vote.


Is Good Taste a Trap?

The New Yorker

Is Good Taste a Trap? The judgments we use to elevate our lives can also hem them in. In Belle Burden's memoir, " Strangers," she describes the end of her marriage. It happened suddenly: until learning of her husband's infidelity, through a voice mail from a stranger, she had no idea anything was wrong. Burden and her husband shared an apartment in Tribeca and a house on Martha's Vineyard.


Sports Betting Is Skyrocketing. Will It Take Over the Olympics?

WIRED

The Winter Olympics Are Here. Is the Sports Betting World Ready? For the 2026 Winter Games, sportsbooks and betting platforms are watching for illicit activity while testing new ways to get people to bet. For all their prestige and gravitas, the Olympic Games have lately proven to be a hotbed for scandals. From a famous judging controversy in 2002 to bid bribery probes and even the resignation of a top Olympic official who was filmed offering to sell tickets for the 2012 London games on the black market, the modern Games have always felt vulnerable to bad actors.


Figure Skaters at the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Pushing the Limits of What's Possible

WIRED

Figure Skaters at the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Pushing the Limits of What's Possible For years, quad axel jumps seemed impossible. Then Ilia Malinin landed one in 2022. As he heads to the Milano Cortina Games everyone wants to know what's next. In 2021, famed Russian figure skating coach Alexei Mishin said that no figure skater would ever be able to successfully perform a quad axel in his lifetime. The following year, two-time Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu was training to master the jump, but when he attempted it at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, he fell short of finishing the four-and-a-half revolutions in the air. Mishin's pronouncement, it seemed, had been validated.



Palantir's Shyam Sankar: Here's what executive and leaders using AI should do

FOX News

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Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

The Guardian

As deepfake video technology improves, the scale of online fraud will grow even further, experts say. As deepfake video technology improves, the scale of online fraud will grow even further, experts say. AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and'produced by pretty much anybody', researchers say Deepfake fraud has gone "industrial", an analysis published by AI experts has said. Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scams - leveraging, for example, deepfake videos of Swedish journalists or the president of Cyprus - are no longer niche, but inexpensive and easy to deploy at scale, said the analysis from the AI Incident Database . These examples are part of a trend in which scammers are using widely available AI tools to perpetuate increasingly targeted heists.


Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,443

Al Jazeera

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' How the US left Ukraine exposed to Russia's winter war Nighttime shelling by Ukrainian forces inflicted "serious damage" on the Russian city of Belgorod, the region's Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. "The enemy has shelled the civilian city of Belgorod. Everyone knows we have no military targets. There has been serious damage. I have been out to look around," Gladkov said on the Telegram messaging app.