In 5-10 years, Amazon/Bezos has a self-quota to make 100 million robots per year. That sounds nuts. The USA alone has over 300 million people. So it would take 3 years after they reach capacity to build robots to cover all USA population.

Yeah at this point I don't think just laws, legislation, oversight committees, and even whole world focusing on this issue together would be enough by that point. So this will most likely be a big focus from now on up to those 5-10 years to get resolved. That is just counting Amazon too not other companies worldwide in other "countries" doing the same thing to get to that level of capacity

8.3 billion living people on Earth currently. When production reaches 100 million robots each year it would take 83 years to cover every human on the planet with their own robot "companion"

The only way this can be done in a good way is open source community-made robots and AI being owned by people as a public thing not privately owned. Where everything is verified and done together ethically. That gives power back to people to own themselves.

Not one person corporate owned at all/tech overlords/stock market.

Also, other news: lots of data centers are going to be sent to orbit space.

I think that's enough internet for me today.

This is just wow. I don't even what to say at this point anymore except get things done, and together seriously.

Yes lots of good can come from certain aspects but I don't feel like it will be done in a friendly way overtime

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The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war should President Donald Trump choose to escalate. Any potential ground operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion and could instead involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, said the officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss highly sensitive military plans that have been in development for weeks.

Hungary’s foreign intelligence services monitored private conversations of the investigative reporter Szabolcs Panyi, he alleged Friday in an interview with POLITICO after being accused of espionage.

Panyi, who has reported for years on Russian influence in Hungary, said he was warned by sources within the government that his conversations with contacts had been intercepted and passed to the Hungarian Information Office, later to be used by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government in an effort to discredit him.

The alleged campaign began in the middle of 2025 and became "more aggressive" after Direkt36, a nonprofit investigative journalism center in Hungary that Panyi writes for, published an article last year about a Hungarian intelligence operative attempting to recruit officials working for the European Commission in Brussels.

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Updated 7:19 PM EDT, March 28, 2026

HAVANA (AP) — Two sailboats that went missing carrying humanitarian aid from southern Mexico to Cuba landed in Havana on Saturday afternoon hours after Mexico’s navy said it had located the boats days after they went incommunicado because of bad weather.

The vessels carrying at least eight people departed from Isla Mujeres in southern Mexico on March 20 and then lost contact, fueling concern in Mexico, Cuba and beyond.

In a post on X on Saturday morning, the navy said an aircraft spotted the boats 80 nautical miles (148 kilometers) northwest of Havana, Cuba. Upon arriving to the island, Adnaan Stumo, the coordinator of the sailing convoy, said bad weather was responsible for the delay because the boats had to take a longer route and the sailors were “never in any serious danger.”

Beijing renewed grievances with Washington on Friday over what it described as systemic bias against Chinese scientists, following the reported suicide of a postdoctoral researcher living in the United States.

During the Chinese Foreign Ministry's regular press conference, spokesperson Lin Jian responded to a query about the researcher, who state media said had died one day after being interrogated by U.S. law enforcement.

“We are deeply saddened by this tragedy and have made solemn representations to the United States,” Lin said. He added that Chinese diplomatic missions had been in contact with the family of the deceased and were assisting with follow‑up arrangements.

During the interview, Zelenskyy shared a summary of the daily presidential briefing he receives from Ukraine’s spy agencies. The report stated that Russian satellites had taken images of the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on March 20, March 23 and March 25.

On March 26, Iran attacked the base, which hosts U.S. forces as well as Saudi troops. The strike wounded a number of American service members, two U.S. officials said Friday, though none of the injuries were considered life-threatening.

Zelenskyy said that based on Ukraine’s experience, Russia’s repeated photographing of installations over several days is an indication of attack planning.

“We know that if they make images once, they are preparing. If they make images a second time, it’s like a simulation. The third time it means that in one or two days, they will attack,” he said. The briefing did not include evidence of the Russian satellite imagery or specify how Ukraine became aware of it, and NBC News was unable to verify its accuracy.

Escalation represents dangerous spread of war and brings threat of even more damage to the global economy

The US-Israeli war with Iran has expanded with the entry of Houthi forces in Yemen, representing a dangerous spread of the conflict and bringing with it the threat of more damage to the global economy.

Pakistan has said it would host a meeting of Middle Eastern powers on Monday in an effort to find a regional approach to ending the conflict. But the talks, which bring together the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, did not appear to include any of the warring parties, casting further doubt on persistent US claims of diplomatic progress.

Houthi forces, close allies of Iran, said on Saturday they had fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at “sensitive Israeli military sites” and that they would continue military operations until the “aggression” came to an end on all fronts. Israel said it had intercepted one missile originating in Yemen.

An Israeli drone strike on a car on the main road in Jezzine on Saturday killed two journalists, Ali Choeib of al-Manar and Fatima Ftouni of al-Mayadeen. Ftouni’s brother, a videographer, as well as a relative of Choeib, were also killed in the strike, according to our correspondent in southern Lebanon.

It was the first time Israeli forces had targeted this road since the start of the war on March 2.

The army, which provided no evidence, said he had “operated for years under the cover of a journalist within al-Manar and systematically disclosed the positions of Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon and along the border, while maintaining contact with other Hezbollah members, including within the Radwan force.”

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned what he described as a “blatant crime.”

Companies who employ more women in senior roles are much more likely to dismiss men accused of sexually or physically abusing their colleagues, according to analysis of international and UK data.

Men were more likely to get sacked for abusing a male colleague rather than a female colleague, according to a recent Finnish study, cited in research about the economic impact of violence against women and girls gathered by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

It found that in female-managed organisations (those with a higher than average number of women in high-earning positions) were “significantly more likely to dismiss perpetrators”, while male-managed ones were more likely to see the victim of abuse leave the company.

The IFS cited studies that found women who are sexually or physically assaulted at work experience a major hit to their careers, “including job loss, reduced hours and lower income”. One study found that women who move in with an abusive partner see their earnings drop by an average of 12%. “These losses persist even after the relationship ends, indicating long-term damage to labour market attachment and career progression,” said the IFS.

Please note this article comes out of Great Britain where the usage of the word 'dismiss' means fired.

• The 59-second 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, seen by billions of people over the decades, is often cited by proponents as proof that the giant, hairy creature exists
• A new documentary — Capturing Bigfoot — uses recently unearthed footage to prove that the 1967 film was an “incredible hoax,” says director Marq Evans

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"After her father’s death,” says Evans, 43, “she’d found a canister of 16mm film that had been sealed away for over half a century. She needed help getting it developed and wondered if I might be interested in doing something with it.”

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Not long after receiving Brooks’ email, Evans had the 16mm film developed and days later found himself looking at a 40-second clip set in a location similar to the one in the 1967 movie, showing what appeared to be a slightly skinnier-looking Bigfoot walking into the woods.

“It took me maybe nine months to realize what we really had,” says Evans, who was able to determine, by markings on the film, that the footage had been shot in 1966, roughly a year before the now-famous clip in the 59-second Bigfoot movie was allegedly shot. “What we eventually found out is that [this new footage] represented a trial run, a rehearsal that was never discarded.”

Realizing he had physical evidence that finally put to rest the question of whether Patterson’s creation was a hoax, Evans knew he had the makings for an explosive documentary. He quickly went to work, he says, “connecting the dots” behind the making of the 1967 film and interviewing the cast of characters in Patterson’s hometown of Yakima, Wash., who were involved with its creation, including 80-something-year-old Bob Heironimus, who confessed to being the individual wearing the fake Bigfoot suit in the film.

Nato plans to establish a multinational corps in Turkey, the Turkish defence ministry revealed this week, signalling Ankara’s desire to strengthen its deterrence in the region.

The ministry said work on establishing the multinational corps MNC-TUR has been under way since 2023 as part of Nato’s southern regional plan, and that Ankara’s decision to move forward with it was communicated to Nato allies in 2024.

Ankara has designated the 6th Corps Command, based in the southern province of Adana, to meet the needs of the new headquarters. The corps is expected to be established under the command of a Turkish general, with the necessary appointments already made to the national core staff.

Two boats filled with humanitarian supplies travelling from Mexico to Cuba have been located days after contact with them was lost in the Caribbean, organisers say.

The boats were located by the Mexican Navy and the crews are safe, a spokesman for the Nuestra America Convoy said.

He did not explain why the two boats - the Friendship and Tiger Moth - had disappeared.

They are among several vessels that have sought to carry supplies to the island nation since the US imposed an oil blockade in January, prompting a chronic fuel shortage.

The Mexican Navy has not commented on how it located the boats, which departed Isla Mujeres, in Mexico's easternmost state of Quintana Roo, on 20 March, and had been due to arrive at their destination on Monday or Tuesday.

Britain is “a few weeks away” from medicine shortages ranging from painkillers to cancer treatment if the Iran war continues, according to experts, while drug prices could also rise.

The conflict has disrupted the supply of a myriad of crucial raw materials, including oil, gas, crop fertiliser and helium – and health essentials could be next.

David Weeks, the Texas-based director of supply chain risk management at the analytics group Moody’s, said: “It’s the perfect storm. We have the conflict in the Gulf that caused the strait of Hormuz to shut down, and India is known as the pharmacy of the world. They produce a lot of the generic [off-patent] drugs and APIs [active pharmaceutical ingredients]. With the geopolitical situation, it’s harder and harder to get those out.”

With airports in Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi initially closed and now operating a limited schedule, pharmaceutical companies have had to reroute their shipments via air, and some are now relying on sea transport, lengthening journey times.

Saudi intelligence source confirms reporting that crown prince has urged Trump to ramp up ‘historic opportunity’ to remake Middle East – key US politics stories from Friday 27 March at a glance

Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, as it decides whether to join the fight directly.

The Saudi source confirmed reporting in the New York Times that said the kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has urged Donald Trump not to cut short his war against Iran, and that the US-Israeli campaign represented a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East.

The intelligence source said Riyadh was not just calling for the military campaign to be continued, but to be intensified. Trump appeared to confirm the report about the crown prince’s role, telling journalists on Tuesday: “Yeah, he’s a warrior. He’s fighting with us.”

Saudi Arabia and Iran, claiming leadership roles of the Sunni and Shia Islamic worlds respectively, have long been regional rivals. According to a leaked US state department cable, the crown prince’s paternal uncle King Abdullah urged the US military in 2008 to “cut off the head of the snake”, a reference to the theocratic regime in Tehran.

As Israel prepares to occupy parts of southern Lebanon, weeks after warning it would take the territory, Palestine’s ambassador to the UK has warned what has happened in Gaza is only the beginning for the troubled region.

Israel says it needs to create a buffer zone in Lebanon, similar to Gaza, so it can fight Hezbollah and keep its territory safe

An AI-generated video from the US embassy in Mexico encouraging migrants to “self-deport” has sparked disbelief and outrage online.

The video posted this week on official embassy social media accounts depicts a group of men wearing black caps and sporting tattoos performing a kind of traditional Mexican ballad known as a corrido.

“The corrido rings out loud in your homeland; return to your roots,” the AI performer sings. “You don’t need to go far to get ahead. Listen to what you say: Mexican power lies within you.”

The social media post also contains a link to CBP Home, a website that helps migrants in the US to return to their home countries.

The video made headlines across Mexican news outlets, and met with condemnation on social media.