I'm just going to be dumping articles in here that have to do with the mad rush of automation that I think we'll be seeing in the coming years. My first entry is interesting, PharmAGRI is buying 10,000 Tesla Optimus Gen3 humanoid robots to replace part of their agricultural workforce. Major company buys 10,000 Tesla robots in worrying sign for human workers: 'Really ambitious' https://share.google/hgoUhlnYqNUeFGdJe They almost make it feel like the ethical solution.
No surprise here Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents Job losses could shave 30 cents off each item purchased by 2027. https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs
Kai-Fu Lee's brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China https://venturebeat.com/ai/kai-fu-l...america-is-already-losing-the-ai-hardware-war
Not sure if this is related or not - just my own limited experience. I worked on a 350,000 s.f. warehouse project, finished permitting three years ago, right when the market was softening. It includes a design for a 2.14 Mw solar facility, battery storage and, most importantly, has a nearby power substation. The owners wanted to shift gears from warehouse space and offer it as a site for an AI server farm (not sure if that's the right term) They were told by a commercial real estate firm I won't name that "there's no market for that use." Not that the site is too small or illsuited, but that the market wasn't there. I'm not on the end where I get more details, only the end response. Just struck me as odd that I keep hearing how we have an AI infrastructure deficit and there's apparently no development market filling the void.
It's amazing how sci-fi nerds can predict the future https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mu...hes-building/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us "On a call with investors on Wednesday, Musk locked on to that last point to make his most threatening argument for a gigantic payday yet. “My fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future?” he said. “If we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army? Not control, but a strong influence … I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.” on an unrelated "tech" side note... I did get a kick out of morons with "smart beds" having their beds freeze up when AWS servers went down. "Yeaaah... I need my bed controlled by "the cloud"
1000 dollar Chinese robots that can dance like club kids are here. Why does this feel like they are trying to secretly insert an army on American soil?
Can we talk about the alien invasion ship and/or comet here too? https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/scien...nse-system-deployed-by-nasa-back-researchers/
