On today’s Big Take podcast, editors @boes_ and @CLindblad1 join @sarahsholder to unpack what the data says is happening in the US economy and why consumer sentiment tells another story

I've been thinking about something lately 😭 When we talk about Physical AI, we usually focus on the moment a robot successfully completes a task. But there's another story behind that moment. Someone had to design the task. Someone had to collect the demonstrations. And those recordings had to become usable training data. That's what makes @axisrobotics interesting to me. Axis is building infrastructure that connects task generation, human contributed simulation data, and data processing into a broader robot learning workflow. The robot's final movement might be the most visible part. But the work that makes learning possible happens long before that. A successful robot action is what we see. The data infrastructure behind it is what we rarely notice. And honestly, I think that hidden part deserves more attention. 🧡 #AxisRobotics# #PhysicalAI#

Last 30 years... US National Debt: +665% S&P 500 Total Return: +1,820% Government borrowing isn’t necessarily bad for corporations in the short run. More borrowing → more spending → higher revenues & profits. The long-term consequences are another story. Video:

Illegals driving 18-wheelers on our roads is a massive national security issue How many more Americans have to die at the hands of illegals?! It seems almost every day there’s another story. Thankfully @SecDuffy is working tirelessly to make our roads safe again He just dropped the latest stats: - 26,000 vehicles out of service because the drivers don't speak English - 30,000 drivers off the roads because their licenses were illegally issued - 800 illegal alien drivers arrested in partnership with ICE Great start! MAKE OUR ROADS SAFE AGAIN

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Steve Witkoff has landed in St. Petersburg with a new peace plan fresh from Oslo. Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev met him at the airport before they headed to Constantine Palace for talks with Putin. Witkoff has been to Russia so many times he should be collecting air miles. Whether this trip finally lands a deal is another story. Writer: Julie

Yann LeCun: AGI is not just around the corner, and people claiming it is have been “systematically wrong.” “It’s not going to be an event. It’s going to be gradual progress.” “We still need systems that can properly understand the world, remember, reason and plan.” “Getting all of those things to work together is another story.” “This is going to take at least a decade, and probably much more.” “I’ve been hearing for 12–15 years that AGI is just around the corner.” “They were systematically wrong. I called their bullshit.”

WHEN BIG OIL TRIED TO BUILD THE IBM OF TOMORROW In the 1970s the world’s largest oil company grew restless. Selling gasoline made them rich, but their executives wanted something flashier. They decided they would beat IBM at its own game and invent the office of the future. They bought clever little companies. One made glowing-screen word processors. Another built a smart typewriter with far fewer parts. A third created a powerful new computer chip called the Z80. They bundled everything together and told the world they would soon own the desks of America. For a short while it looked possible, they called it Oxy. Then cheap personal computers arrived. A machine that cost a few hundred dollars suddenly did the same work as their expensive office systems. And like all highly funded companies: Meetings dragged on. Products jammed, overheated, and locked users out. Customers quietly chose someone else. By the mid-1980s the dream was over. The oil company sold the pieces and went back to pumping fuel. The office of tomorrow belonged to someone else maybe Xerox? No but that is another story. It came out of a garage like it always does.