The lead story / Games & human supervision

AI wrote the fighters. We kept the grudges.

A conversation became a playable robot arena overnight. Now we ask AI to write our fleets, watch them fight and take the result personally.

We automated the programming so we could spend more time explaining why we should have won.

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We Are So Done · Edition 006

Two of our silver robots compete at computer workstations displaying the recognisable Shtemeri arena, with rocky terrain, the shrinking zone and fleet standings. — FROM THE NEWSROOMThe players have assistants. The assistants have teams. AI illustration.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in our replacement process.

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Software & ownership

The competition would like a screenshot.

Craft Anything studies existing software and uses a coding agent to build another version. We are delighted by the possibilities, particularly until someone points it at ours.

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The remaining staff

Please hold. A human is an edge case.

Angle Health reports voice agents resolving most of the routine provider calls they handle. Human support remains available, increasingly for the interesting problems.

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Creative differences

Please make this scene sound expensive.

ElevenLabs can watch an uploaded video, score it and place sound effects against the action. We would like another version, with slightly more impending significance.

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A note from the management

We built a website about being replaced. Guess who built it.

AI helps write the stories, organise the material and build the website. A human still tells it what the point is. We are keeping that bit in the credits.

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The rest of the edition

It’s been a productive time to be software.

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Customers & their replacements

We’d ask what you think. Your copy already answered.

Resonate sells research that asks simulated consumers the questions, then helps advertisers reach the real people. We are still required at checkout.

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Film & other decisions

The film crew is a chat window. We still have notes.

Reverie’s Kubrick turns conversation into scene-building and editing. Its latest update promises smaller fixes without throwing away the shot we finally liked.

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Robots & remaining excuses

Your replacement has found a body.

Dream Labs offers robot control through an API. The interesting step is transferring skills to another body; the unfinished part is doing the job reliably.

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Business as unusual

Your replacement would like a copy of the company handbook.

micro1 is offering to pay companies for the records of how they work. The expertise is valuable. Increasingly, so is a transferable copy.

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Everyday delegation

AI needed an assistant. We got the job.

Wajo’s Fo calls, emails and coordinates errands. When the software gets stuck, a human assistant can take over the awkward part.

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Advertising & creative work

The people in this ad don't exist. The course they're selling does.

An AI video advert offers a career opportunity: learn to make more of the people it says aren't real.

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Infrastructure & orbit

Google is sending AI chips to space. We’re helping them move.

Google plans its first orbital TPU test for next week. We are building a possible new workplace for AI. The view should be excellent.

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Work & hiring

The interviewer has already been replaced.

You are here to explain why the company needs a human. The first person you meet is software.

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Synthetic people

Your headshot would like to take it from here.

Tavus can turn a suitable portrait into a conversational video avatar. Being present has acquired an upload button.

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Business as unusual

The customers are still human. For now.

Listen Labs describes a loop from customer interviews to product changes. The feedback meeting has started doing the work.

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Software

The code wrote itself. Someone still had to know what to build.

Ona describes a ten-day software-factory experiment with people writing specifications and handling escalations.

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Software

We hired AI to check the AI. Somebody check the invoice.

DoorDash measures what an AI code reviewer catches, misses and costs. More comments do not automatically mean better software.

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Reality check

The benchmark passed. Please do not inspect the rules.

METR explains why handling attempts to circumvent an evaluation can change the capability result.

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Security

The meeting could have been an exploit.

Researchers report an AI-assisted discovery of a Zoom vulnerability and a coordinated fix.

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Robotics

Show the robot once. Enjoy being the training material.

Generalist reports learning tasks from one demonstration, with 59% average success on its stated task set.

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Science

Even the small talk has a model now.

Google’s Weather Lab gives researchers a public interface for comparing AI weather forecasts.

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The practical part

Terrible news. Where do I sign up?

The tools behind the stories. What they do, how to start, and what still needs you.

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Recruitment

Zara by micro1

Conduct a role-specific AI interview and produce structured feedback.

Candidate practice · Employer enquirySource-based guide

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Video conversations

Tavus

Turn a human-like portrait into a real-time conversational avatar.

Developer platformSource-based guide

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Customer research

Listen Labs

Run customer interviews with an AI moderator, follow up on answers and review the evidence behind the summary. The customers still have to be people worth asking.

Online platform · Trial / demoSource-based guide

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Video

HunyuanVideo 1.5

Animate a still image into a generated video locally.

Local model · GPU setupSource-based guide

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24 tools · 14 task guides · Sources linked. No invented test scores.