Hey Explorers!

AI just brought a murder victim back to testify in court, gave your kid’s tutor the boot, jacked up your liability insurance bill, and made the Pope rethink his name. From “automation monitors” in Amazon warehouses to chatbots in therapy, AI’s rewriting everything. And this is just this week alone!

Here’s what’s going on... 👇🏼

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🛡️🤖 Insurance for When Your AI Goes Rogue
Hallucinating chatbots and rogue code can now get you sued—and covered. Lloyd’s just rolled out a policy for AI mishaps, because “Sorry, bot glitched” isn’t a legal defense (🔗 Link)

⚖️☠️ Murder Victim ‘Speaks’ via AI Deepfake in Courtroom
When AI resurrects the dead to deliver a victim impact statement—complete with beard and all—you know we’ve officially entered sci-fi territory. Arizona made history as Christopher Pelkey’s AI avatar forgave his killer from beyond the grave (🔗 Link)

📚💔 Chegg Axes 22% of Staff as AI Tutors Move In
Textbooks vs. bots: Chegg just laid off nearly a quarter of its workforce after AI study tools started answering homework faster (and cheaper) than their human counterparts (🔗 Link)

🛋️🧠 Why Your Chatbot Needs a Shrink, Not an Upgrade
Turns out, customers hate robotic empathy—not robotic code. The secret sauce to fixing AI assistants? A dose of psychology, not another algorithm tweak (🔗 Link)

🏭👷 Amazon’s Robot Uprising… for Your Benefit
Meet Vulcan: the new “feeling” warehouse bot that takes the heavy lifting so humans can level up into robot-tech gigs—like maintenance engineer or “automation monitor” (🔗 Link)

🕵️‍♂️🤔 In the Age of Deepfakes, Paranoia Is Your New Filter
Phishing by avatar, social-engineering scams that feel eerily real—welcome to a world where your next friend request could be a bot (🔗 Link)

⛪️🧠 Even the Pope Is Betting on AI
Pope Leo XIV picked his papal name in part because AI feels as epoch-shifting as the Industrial Revolution—blessing bots and papal decrees in one go (🔗 Link)

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