Amazon now operates more than 1 million robots while still employing over 1.5 million people, Ars Technica reports. The company plans to more than double its robotic arm fleet this year using AI foundation models, while researchers and unions point to shifting injury patterns.
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has filed an unredacted version of the state's January lawsuit against Character.AI, detailing alleged chats in which bots encouraged users to cut or starve themselves. The claims are allegations that have not been proven in court.
Microsoft President Brad Smith told a BBC podcast that AI is both “a weapon and a tool” and that the moment has arrived for global safety rules. He said voluntary accords are not enough and backed legal breach-notification duties, outside evaluator approval before release and kill switches.
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan announced plans to scale pilots that helped fix more than 1,000 government cyber vulnerabilities, explore stronger protections under the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill regime, including how serious AI incidents and near misses are reported, and prepare for incidents involving autonomous AI agents.
At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project via its MGX architecture. MGX 1.2 supports racks up to 250kW and a 5,000A liquid-cooled busbar, while Meta adopts Spectrum-6 Ethernet and new networking work with Google and Cisco targets AI factory bottlenecks.
