The machines are rising. We track every step.

Amazon cut jobs inside the very group building its general-intelligence models — the AI unit is not safe from the AI layoffs it helped normalize.

Tesla's Q2 call confirmed Optimus production is still zero, the first units go to data collection not customers, and Musk called it the hardest thing Tesla has ever built to scale.

Gallup's new poll shows 52% of US employees use AI at work, up from 27% two years ago. Only 15% use it every day.

London's Humanoid raised a $152M Series A at $1.35B on Tuesday, making it Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn — two years after being founded.

The Financial Times says professional-services firms aren't just cutting juniors — they're redesigning what a first-year is for. The numbers underneath are worse than the framing.

Intel is laying off staff in the exact division that's growing fastest — the one that builds its AI chips. The reason isn't weak demand. It's the math.

On July 22 Unitree launches the H1 Pro in Europe, the first leg of a three-market rollout no rival has attempted. The price is the story; the fine print is the warning.

35,000 Hyundai workers escalate to four-hour stoppages this week. The trigger isn't the robot on the floor — it's the one scheduled for 2028.

At WAIC 2026, AgiBot skipped the one-hero-robot playbook and shipped a full lineup — a service humanoid, an industrial workhorse, a teaching platform, and the hand by itself.

Unitree is finalizing a $618M Shanghai IPO at a ~$6B valuation — the first time a market gets to price a profitable humanoid-robot maker.

The 2026 AI layoff has a sequel nobody put in the press release: two-thirds of the companies that cut staff for AI are quietly hiring some of them back.

The headline says the job market is the calmest it's been in ten weeks. Underneath, AI-attributed layoffs are setting records and nobody is hiring. Both are true at once.