OpenAI: The Company That Wants to Tax Robots — Plus Iran Threatens Stargate, Robotaxis Hide Their Data, and AI Learns to Lie

OpenAI published an industrial policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, public wealth funds, and a four-day workweek — while simultaneously launching a Safety Fellowship for independent researchers and having its Abu Dhabi Stargate data center named as a military target by Iran's IRGC. Meanwhile, robotaxi companies are refusing to disclose how often remote operators intervene, researchers developed a new method to distinguish when AI models are genuinely 'lying' versus making mistakes, and Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment to address its labor shortage.

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