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• 💁‍♀️ Hotels are staffing robots—and guests are freaking out

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A TikTok video went viral on Monday, showing a woman laughing nervously as she backs away from a humanoid robot at Japan’s Henn-na Hotel. “Don’t look at me,” she said, as the machine watched her.

The scene underscores growing fears that robots are replacing humans in the workplace. The awkward check-in has racked up hundreds of thousands of views and tapped into a deeper fear: robots that are a little too human.

As UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering Professor Ken Goldberg once told Decrypt, “I want a robot to look like a robot—it can maybe do some things, but I don't want to confuse it with a real person.” Read more

AI News

• 🪓 Microsoft is laying off as many as 9,000 employees (link)

• 🦾 World’s first robotic hand bends fingers using nothing but human thought (link)

• 🏙️ MIT researchers make incredible breakthrough that could change how we build cities forever (link)

• 🤖 Tesla pauses Optimus robot output following leadership shakeup (link)

• 🤦Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes (link)

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AI Tools

• 🐦️ Littlebird: Optimize workflows with AI insights and automation (link)

• 🌏️ AddSubtitle: Let subtitles speak your global story (link)

• 📮 Harmony: Manage emails hands-free using voice commands (link)

• ⚙️ Google Workspace: A suite of online productivity and collaboration tools designed for businesses and organizations (link)

• 🌎️ Snov: Sales engagement on autopilot - we reach, you seal the deal (link)