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Blackstone Just Made A Physical AI Bet On Actuator-Maker Powering Humanoid Robots
Blackstone Just Made A Physical AI Bet On Actuator-Maker Powering Humanoid Robots
Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager, is making a big investment in Futronic, a 33-year-old automotive supplier whose motion-control technology has been adapted for industrial and humanoid robots, according to Reuters.
The deal values the South Korean firm at about 1 trillion won ($676.04 million), according to a person with knowledge of the matter. -RTRS
The deal comes just ahead of the expected rise of physical AI, with forecasts from top desks indicating that global robot deliveries could begin...
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Mar 22, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Pritzker Criticizes AIPAC After Pro-Israel Group Spends Heavily In Illinois Primary
Pritzker Criticizes AIPAC After Pro-Israel Group Spends Heavily In Illinois Primary
Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sharply criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) following the group’s significant spending in the March 17 Illinois primary elections.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks on stage during Vox Media's Pivot Tour at The Chicago Theatre in Chicago on Nov. 12, 2025. Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Vox Media
In an interview with The Associated Press on March 18, Pritzker said AIPAC has strayed from its original mission...
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Jul 2, 2026 / Tyler Durden
SAP Slows Hiring, Freezes Travel As AI Push Accelerates
SAP Slows Hiring, Freezes Travel As AI Push Accelerates
Not even a day after reports swirled that Microsoft was preparing to cut thousands of employees, and as the broader tech sector continues to hemorrhage white-collar workers replaced by chatbots, the latest AI-related job-displacement news is coming from Europe's largest software company.
Bloomberg reports that German enterprise software giant SAP, best known for software that supports large corporations running core business operations, is preparing to slow hiring and cut travel costs as it diverts more capital toward developing AI tools.
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Apr 26, 2026 / Tyler Durden
When The Cost of Truth Is High, We (And AI) Lie...
When The Cost of Truth Is High, We (And AI) Lie...
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
When we can no longer tell the truth because the cost is so high that it threatens our reward for compliance, we're unimaginably impoverished.
Truth has an intrinsic, irreplaceable value.
There's the truth, and then there's everything else.
Truth has value, and so it has a cost.
Whatever has the highest value has the highest cost, and high cost commands sacrifices.
When the cost of truth is high, we lie.
And since AI is a distorted reflection of...
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