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Amazon is pouring one hundred million dollars into a new robotics manufacturing hub in Indiana, expanding its capacity to build the machines that increasingly stock, sort, and ship inside its warehouses. It's a significant bet that automation isn't slowing down — and that the infrastructure behind it needs to grow alongside the ambition.

Shifting to the gadget space, Meta's upcoming Muse Charm is getting more interesting by the day. Bloomberg reports the handheld AI device will be able to recognize and communicate with other nearby Charms when it launches later this year. It's a social layer baked directly into hardware — devices that know each other before their owners even say a word.

And that social awareness cuts both ways. A piece circulating today makes a pointed case that ambient surveillance has quietly become the default. Apple's latest watches can now continuously listen and summarize nearby conversations. The question isn't whether your devices are paying attention anymore — it's whether anyone remembers when they weren't.

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