Metal Hands, Real Food
They’re feeding the hungry. Not with code. With steel claws.
In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, robots are cooking for a nonprofit. I’ve written about bots for years—sorting chicken nuggets, twisting in lightbulbs. Boring stuff. Utilitarian. But Eka? Eka feels different.
Like we’re standing at the edge of a physical ChatGPT moment.
The Meta Grind
Money flows. Spirits don’t.
Meta posts record profits while morale hits rock bottom. Ten percent of the staff gone next week. WIRED talked to dozens—current staff, ghosts from the past. One consensus?
Everyone is unhappy.
And it gets uglier. In Ireland, over 700 workers for a Meta contractor are facing the axe. They train the AI. Now the AI might replace the trainers. It’s undignified, is how one put it.
Before they go, employees are scrambling. Cashing in headphone stipends. Burning benefits. Taking what they can get before the door slams.
“Your job doesn’t love you back.”
Companies slash health care. Cut parental leave. Gut retirement plans. And they do it for the worst reasons. Not savings. Not logic. Just spite, basically. Or greed. Hard to tell the difference anymore.
The AI Dividend Myth
Demis Hassabis thinks you’re doing it wrong.
Google’s DeepMind chief says AI should make us do more. Not fire more. Use the productivity. Scale up. Build things. Instead? Everyone just fires people. It’s lazy leadership dressed up as efficiency.
Mira Murati agrees, sort of.
She left OpenAI to build Thinking Machines Lab. Her goal isn’t to replace humans. It’s collaboration. Keep humans in the loop. Please.
Meanwhile, I gave my OpenClaw agent a physical body. Coding skills are getting so good now that building robots isn’t just for engineers with PhDs anymore. It’s becoming easy. Too easy?
Bricks of Hope, Dreams of Retirement
Across the world, things are falling apart and coming back together in strange ways.
Gaza. Debris is crushed. Made into Lego-like interlocking blocks. Shelters raised from rubble because actual materials won’t arrive. Ingenuity under siege.
Philosophy takes a darker turn.
Nick Bostrom has a plan. He wants humanity’s “Big Retirement.” Build the advanced AI. Let it solve the world. We step back. Enjoy the quiet. Is that freedom? Or surrender?
Hard to say.
The tech promises ease. The corporate world delivers anxiety. The robots cook dinner. We just sit and wonder who’s left to eat it with us.
