2026-07-15

Meta's electrician training is free. The job that comes with it has a catch

Meta's newest recruits could lose their jobs once data center construction is finished. Nobody knows if they'll get hired anywhere else [...]

2026-07-15

Trade school enrollment is booming. It's mostly a demographic mirage

Trade school enrollment only jumped because Gen Z got old enough to attend. Apprenticeship programs still can't absorb demand for electricians [...]

2026-07-15

Jamie Dimon has a warning about Anthropic's most powerful AI model

"You're giving ballistic missiles to individuals with Mythos, basically," then JPMorgan chief said of the potential for broad release of the Anthropic model [...]

2026-07-15

Apple is shopping for chip companies because its own AI servers can’t keep up

Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talked to bankers about deals and approached chip startups to ask if they […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-15

Boston Dynamics is testing Spot as a package delivery robot that walks from van to doorstep

Boston Dynamics is testing Spot, its four-legged robot, as a delivery worker that rides along in trucks and hops out to carry packages to customers’ doorsteps. The company posted a video on Tuesday showing a human driver loading packages onto a conveyor belt mounted on Spot’s back, followed by the robot walking up to houses […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-15

Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs

Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t want them yet.” That is Russ Tedrake, telling Bloomberg why his new […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-15

An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet

No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise about $200m at a $2bn valuation, with Lightspeed in […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-15

OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal

OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odds for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches with a “Source: Kalshi” label but no outbound links or Kalshi […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]

2026-07-15

Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best

“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling. It is open-weight, so any developer or company can download the model […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]