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22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Chinese Robot Beats Fastest Human Half-Marathon Time — The Line Between Impressive and Alarming Just Blurred

Posted on April 21, 2026April 21, 2026 By Don MacLeod

A Chinese humanoid robot just completed a half-marathon in less time than the fastest human ever recorded. Not “pretty close.” Not “almost as fast.” Faster. The robot — built by a Chinese robotics company — finished the 13.1-mile course in under an hour. The current human world record for a…

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AI Rent Human Bodies — And We’re All Just Tenants Now

Posted on February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The machines came for the jobs. Now they want the bodies. RentAHuman.ai launched this week with a pitch so blunt it almost sounds like satire: “Robots need your body.” Founder Alexander Liteplo — a software engineer with apparently zero interest in subtlety — built a platform where AI agents can…

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The AI CEO Who Actually Read the Room — And It’s On Fire

Posted on January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 By Don MacLeod

When did tech executives start sounding like doomsday preppers with venture capital? But here we are with Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI — publishing a 38-page essay that reads less like a product roadmap and more like a civilization-ending threat assessment. The title alone should…

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