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Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek. Learn more about your ad choices. ... Show More

Novoloop has signed a deal with a contract manufacturer to produce its Lifecycled TPU material. Also, Knapsack creates a unified workspace that integrates design and coding tools to ensure design and engineering teams are on the same page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ... Show More

Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many factory owners invested heavily in automation as the best way to meet customer demand. But now, factories are adding fewer new robots as production slows and more human workers take on manufacturing jobs. WSJ reporter Bob Tita and host Zoe Thoma ... Show More

Plus, Meta cuts 5% of its workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Plus: Unofficial jobs numbers are starting to come in from Wall Street, pointing to the U.S. labor market losing steam. And, Swiss tech giant ABB looks to sell off its robotics business to Japan’s Softbank. Caitlin McCabe hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Lear ... Show More

What are the macro trends moving the U.S. labor market and how might that translate into your ability to find a new job? From the incoming Trump administration’s tariff and immigration plans to the adoption of AI, WSJ workplace and employment reporter Lauren Weber and logistics a ... Show More

Concerned Republicans deliver a message to Elon Musk: Go easy with that chainsaw and send those cuts to Congress. This, as DOGE sets its sights on veterans affairs, with tens of thousands of jobs on the chopping block. What it will mean for veterans and their families? Plus, if y ... Show More

A review website became suddenly flush with new bylines, right as the newsroom was negotiating with management. But information on their new contributors was hard to find—were they people at all, or was this the first clumsy incursion of A.I. into their newsroom? Guest: Will Somm ... Show More

The Minions are, for better or worse, the only things that work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

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