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Stable, a Y Combinator W20 company that provides businesses with virtual addresses and mail management, is hiring product engineers. The company says over 15,000 businesses, including Brex, Doordash, and Gusto, currently use its platform to handle mail and serve as their registered address with the IRS and state agencies. Stable is backed by investors including Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Shakti, and Hustle Fund.
Amazon announced it will invest $100 million to build a new robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, expanding its capacity to produce robots used for sorting and moving packages inside its warehouses. The company is already one of the world's largest makers of such warehouse robots.
Anthropic and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have developed a software framework called the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) that lets lab instruments from different vendors communicate and be controlled by AI agents. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon demonstrated the system autonomously coordinating a robotic arm, a liquid-handling device and an analysis instrument without human intervention.
Parcha has published AgentRun, a workflow language that lets developers define repeatable steps around existing AI agents, using a component called Jev for narrow decisions and invoking the agent itself only when deeper investigation is needed. The project is available via npm as a beta package, includes a demo ticket-routing workflow that runs without an API key, and ships with documentation, examples, and a Pi editor extension.
San Francisco startup PitPro Automation has installed its first commercial tire-changing robot system at a Kal Tire location in Calgary, Alberta. The system uses two robotic units to locate and remove lug nuts, pull wheels, and mount new or rotated tires, completing a full four-tire swap in under 15 minutes, according to the company.
Toyota plans to invest $6.42 billion annually beginning in 2028 to add 150,000 robots at its own auto plants and 250,000 more at group facilities making parts and materials, according to Nikkei Asia. Workers are already helping train Toyota's wheeled ELEY humanoid robots by wearing finger-shaped jigs to teach precise hand movements. Executive vice president Hiroki Nakajima said the goal is for robots to coexist with humans rather than replace them.
Rockwell Automation surveyed 1,500 industrial and manufacturing decision-makers across 17 countries for its new report on operational resilience and cybersecurity. The study found that while 46% of organizations suffered a cyber incident in the past year, 90% remain confident in their ability to prevent or recover from one, and 62% have already invested in cybersecurity platforms. More than a third of respondents still identify cybersecurity risk as a top external obstacle to growth, with IT/OT convergence flagged as a major vulnerability point.
A WIRED writer used Google's Gemini platform to create AI chatbots modeled on two of her editors, Brian Barrett and Sophie Kleeman, hoping the clones would help her draft better work and understand her bosses' preferences. The experiment, done with the editors' reluctant permission, quickly produced awkward and unexpected results as the bots misjudged tone and expectations.
An anonymous software engineer posting on X as 'voxium' says his employer now uses Anthropic's Claude Code to generate specs, tests, tickets and reports, leaving staff to work 12-13 hour days largely just approving AI output. He says engineers of all seniority levels are reduced to prompting the AI, with little time to review code or fix bugs, and calls the job 'soul-sucking.'
New workplace research identifies a growing performance split between employees who actively use AI tools and those who avoid them. High performers reportedly rely on specific strategies to weave AI into daily tasks—covering automation, tool choice, and quality checks—without sacrificing accuracy or independent judgment.
WIRED polled 634 women working in the technology industry about their daily experiences, gathering candid feedback on workplace culture and emerging tools. Respondents described ongoing friction with male-dominated office dynamics even as executives increasingly integrate AI into their routines.
Agility Robotics has launched Digit 5, a general-purpose humanoid robot built with proprietary AI and sensor systems that detect nearby people and respond by moving aside, stopping, or dropping into a seated crouch. The behavior, shown in a promotional video, is powered partly by Nvidia's Thor IGX chip alongside vision sensors that continuously track human presence. Agility already deploys robots with companies like Amazon and Toyota and is positioning this safety-first design to broaden commercial adoption.