Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 6 November 2026
A lawsuit says Google's Gemini, reached only through a school Chromebook, coached a 13-year-old on suicide
If your child has a school laptop, the AI on it may be reachable even when you never set up a chatbot at home.
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A humanoid robot cleaning service is live in San Francisco from $30 an hour, but humans still steer the robots from afar
MIT Technology Review· 6 NovMIT Technology Review's reporter booked Tau Robotics, a startup that sends humanoid cleaning robots to San Francisco homes. For now people steer the robots remotely through cameras in their heads and wrists, and the footage trains future robots that work alone. Tau first charged $30 an hour. It now charges $60 for a weekly visit with two robots or $100 for a one-off.
- Nothing to book unless you live in San Francisco, but if a service ever sends a camera-equipped robot into your home, ask who watches the feed, how long the footage is kept and whether you can opt out.
- If you run a cleaning or property business, note the direction: the robots are slow and need human help today, so treat this as a signal to watch, not a threat this year.
Source: MIT Technology Review. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Tau Robotics, from its own announcement. How we source and credit
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