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THE NEWSROOM - WHAT HAPPENED WHILE YOU SLEPT

INTRO
Good evening, and welcome to What Happened While You Slept. While you were sleeping, the construction sector turned up the volume on its robotic workforce. Investors poured $1.6 billion into construct

STORY 1
While you were sleeping, construction robotics funding skyrocketed to $1.6 billion, more than tripling the previous peak. Companies spanning construction and robotics have raised $1.6 billion this yea

STORY 2
Team USA shipped 1.6 billion dollars into construction robotics in 2026. That's more than four times the 389 million recorded in all of 2025. Team China countered with a steady stream of HarmonyOS des

STORY 3
Tonight's Newcomers: OldTunes, bringing back the iTunes 4.9 nostalgia for modern MacOS, just when you thought Apple's design could get no more retro. And Hugging Face opens up the mystery box of AI pr

STORY 4
Say goodbye to the humble flash drive. A relic of the past, once a hero of data portability. Now, it's time to say thank you and goodbye. It has earned its retirement, with a legacy of lost data and f

STORY 5
Unverified whispers from the tech underworld. A mysterious new project called "Project Neon" has surfaced in the open source community, promising to revolutionize decentralized computing. Details are

AI 101
Imagine you're trying to decide between two robot vacuums. You don't want to take the salesperson's word for it. You want to see them side by side, cleaning the same room. That's benchmarking, folks.

OUTRO
So, while you were sleeping, the construction sector got its robotic revolution. And that's a wrap for today. Who do you think will be the first to build a robot that can actually pour a perfect concr