Study finds people don’t want robots in hospitals or classrooms

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A new Hexagon study found that people are far more comfortable with robots handling physical labor in warehouses and factories than caring for patients or teaching children. The findings reveal where the public is drawing the line as robotics adoption grows.

OpenAI is building AI agents that never clock out

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OpenAI plans to acquire Ona, a company specializing in secure cloud execution environments. The deal reveals a larger strategy to create AI agents that can continue working for hours or even days without requiring users to stay connected.

Mastercard wants AI agents paying each other nonstop

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Mastercard believes AI agents will soon be buying services, paying fees, and handling transactions automatically at machine speed. The company’s new Agent Pay for Machines platform aims to support nonstop machine-to-machine payments across traditional and crypto rails.

Bloomberg wants AI agents watching global regulations so humans do not have to

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Bloomberg Industry Group is betting that AI agents can help businesses track changing laws and regulations before humans even notice them. With its acquisition of Regology, the company is pushing deeper into automated compliance, raising questions about how much legal and regulatory work companies are willing to hand over to artificial intelligence.

Sport Clips hands work once done by humans to thousands of AI agents

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Sport Clips is deploying thousands of AI agents to automate customer review responses and local marketing tasks across its franchise locations, raising fresh questions about how much human interaction businesses are willing to replace with software.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang tells graduates to embrace AI despite fears it could replace them

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered an upbeat AI commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon University, but with automation fears growing, some graduates may wonder whether the technology shaping the future could also eliminate parts of it.