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$94,000 A YEAR to babysit ROBOTS. No, this isn't a joke. Figure AI is actually hiring someone for this. And the job requirements are just beautiful: Work from 10:30 PM to 7 AM Stand for 8+ hours Lift equipment weighing up to 50 lbs Troubleshoot robot failures Operate the robots YOURSELF if needed That last one is my favorite. If a robot can't do its job, YOU have to do it for them. And once it learns how, it can take YOUR job. But don't worry. Maybe it'll hire you back someday. For the night shift.

NVIDIA may have found a vulnerability no driver update can fix. Jensen Huang admitted to an affair. Now NVIDIA is investigating reports that the woman may have ties to Chinese intelligence. All those billions spent protecting chip technology, and nobody thought to check the CEO's bedroom.

OpenAI: here's your GIF. Now count your tokens. Yesterday they rolled out Images 2.6. Now you can animate pictures, make GIFs, and experiment with animation. Have fun, dear subscribers! Just not too much. Because starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business users will have a SHARED limit for ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI has kindly included a meter with our new toys. God forbid we get too carried away with being creative. Burned through your limit on a big project in Work? Great job! Now advanced models are unavailable to you in regular chat too. Wait for your limit to reset or get your wallet out. They promise not to touch Instant. How generous! At least we don't have to pay extra to ask "how long do I boil eggs" yet. But what annoys me most is the psychological part. Now, before every stupid idea, you'll start thinking: is it really worth my precious tokens? Perfect atmosphere for creativity. You're paying for an AI subscription, sitting in front of the most powerful model, and saving questions like you're saving mobile data while roaming. And they haven't even told us exactly how much we'll be allowed to use. A surprise, apparently. And why did OpenAI decide to copy from Claude the exact thing I dislike about it?

Microduck decided Jensen Huang isn't the boss of him Yesterday at GTC Berlin, NVIDIA showed how robots can be trained in simulation and then use those skills in the real world. They brought out four Microducks for the demo. Jensen tried to get them to follow his commands, but not all of them managed to do a backflip, and one duck just wandered off. Jensen had to personally convince it to come back 😂 Microduck costs $399, runs on open-source software, and owners will be able to teach it new moves themselves. I can already imagine what's gonna happen when those preorders finally start arriving. NVIDIA put all that effort into teaching ducks to do backflips. The internet's first move will be teaching them to run away from their owners. Although judging by Berlin, they've already figured that part out.

Rockstar, it's time to add the Roadster to GTA 6.

Thought X cut your reach? You weren’t imagining it. On October 7, the open xai-org/x-algorithm repo enabled a new source for For You: popular posts. It pulls posts less than 24 hours old, up to 5 per author, with up to 500 candidates total. But there’s a catch. The system starts with the biggest active accounts by follower count. Yeah, yeah. You got it. Size comes with a very real advantage. So if a big account is already taking off, its post now has another route into other people’s For You. At the same time, PostUnexploredWeight was cut from 0.02 to 0.015. That boost only applies when the viewer already follows you, so this specifically weakens the extra push to your existing audience. Small accounts, well... you get it. I’m with you.

ROBOTS: 2026 HUMANS: Idiocracy

Are these ROBO-VALETS really just going to repark my car, or are they taking it to ANOTHER STATE and I’ll find it on COPART next week? 😂

Boss: Just a couple of edits. Me:

7,000 humanoids. That’s how many were sold worldwide in all of 2025. Feels like there are already a million of them. Every week there’s a new robot. A new factory. A new video. Another CEO saying mass adoption is right around the corner. And now China is starting to slow down robotics IPOs. Because one very awkward question came up. Who’s actually buying all this? They already managed to blow up the market before there was even much demand.

Black Mirror’s killer robot dog aged way too well. Back in 2017, “Metalhead” looked like pure nightmare fuel. Now you watch the same moves and think: yeah, that’s basically a Boston Dynamics video. The funny part is, the robot was already inspired by Boston Dynamics. Then about six weeks after the episode aired, the company showed SpotMini opening a door by itself. Fast forward to 2026. Spot can already navigate facilities autonomously, recover from falls, move objects and open doors with an arm. In Black Mirror, it uses all of that to hunt you. In real life, it inspects factories and goes where humans would rather not. Boston Dynamics explicitly bans weaponizing its robots. The hardware is already close enough. The real question is who gets to decide what the dog is for.

NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 BILLION. Yes, that’s the same company selling the $399 Microduck and Reachy Mini robots. 🤖🦆 To put that number in perspective: 🍕 The entire Domino’s Pizza: ~$11.3B 👖 Levi’s + 🏍 Harley-Davidson combined: ~$10.7B 🎀 Mattel + 🍔 Wendy’s + ✈️ JetBlue + 🏍 Harley-Davidson combined: ~$10.3B One open-source AI company is now being valued above entire businesses behind some of the most recognizable brands in America. And here’s the interesting part: Hugging Face isn’t supposed to become just another closed NVIDIA product. The team is staying, the platform is expected to remain open, and Hugging Face wants to keep growing an ecosystem that millions of AI builders can actually use and build on. What makes this even more interesting is robotics. NVIDIA clearly sees huge value not just in AI models and software, but in giving that intelligence a physical form - through affordable home robots like Microduck and Reachy Mini. Robots that cost just a few hundred dollars and recently looked like toys for enthusiasts are now part of an ecosystem NVIDIA is willing to pay nearly $13 billion for.