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The $39 Billion Robot Has Scratches
Figure AI's humanoids spent 11 months at BMW. The wear and tear convinced investors to multiply the company's valuation by 15.
 • Julian Estevez
The Myth of Water Usage in Datacenters
How Bad Math Created a Panic
 • Julian Estevez
The Aerial Utopia of Logistics
The Delivery Drone and Volatus Aerospace: From Amazon's Promise to the Harsh Reality of the Balance Sheet
 • Julian Estevez
The Great Freeze: when machines don't steal jobs, they simply stop creating them
How artificial intelligence is closing the door to the labour market and why Jerome Powell no longer has any doubts
 • Julian Estevez
The Ghost in the 'Wrong' Machine. The future of humanoid robots
We've built god-like minds for our robots. The problem is their bodies.
 • Julian Estevez
The Last Experiment
How is the rise of AI privatizing knowledge? It's turning discovery into intellectual property and replacing peer review with corporate benchmarks…
 • Julian Estevez
The Pilot Who Never Sleeps: Lessons from Tesla’s Crash and the Illusion of Control
A fatal Tesla crash, a $243 million verdict, and the uncomfortable truth about our faith in artificial intelligence.
 • Julian Estevez
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A literary attempt to share my thoughts as a Professor who teaches robots common sense while secretly suspecting they'll soon be teaching me.
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