Tau Robotics has launched an invite-only humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30 per hour, positioning real-home deployments as both a practical service and a data engine for advancing general-purpose robot AI. Photo credit: X @alexkoch_ai Founded in 2024 by Alexander Koch (CEO) and Cornelia Weinzierl, the compact San Francisco-based company is building toward general AI for robots. It has raised roughly $2.6–3 million in pre-seed funding and operates with a small t

In late 2025 and early 2026, Amazon executed one of the largest corporate layoffs in its history, eliminating approximately 30,000 roles across its global operations. This included an initial reduction of 14,000 jobs in October 2025, followed by another 16,000 announced on January 28, 2026.

How artificial intelligence is turning science fiction into everyday reality — and what it means for all of us. Soon drones that work in the air, seas and land will be entirely autonomous prepared to address threats based on programmed instructions. 400–800 million jobs worldwide could vanish by 2030. Machines are becoming sentient -- able to learn without a complex set of instructions. The machines, watch, listen, find data, try, fail and learn all at a pace no human can mat