Step into this week’s wild mix of useful AI breakthroughs, robotics upgrades, digital culture drama, and the future nobody’s ready for.

We explore everything from CirculaFloor’s robotic tiles that make VR feel infinite, to SIMA-2’s leap into embodied 3D learning, to the strange rise of AI affairs and the truth about AI-driven layoffs.

Also inside:
• 50+ “clocks” that break your sense of time
• Why AGI fantasies are blocking real engineering
• Delivery robots and the human “comfort zone”
• Ultima Online — the metaverse before “the metaverse”
• Synthetic music climbing Spotify & Billboard

Smart, funny, philosophical, a little messy — your weekly download on the future of AI and humanity.