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• Hyundai auto workers in South Korea staged a partial strike — the car industry’s first factory stoppage explicitly addressing humanoid robots on the production line [singularityhub].
• PsiQuantum’s plan to build a massive photonic (light-based) quantum computer was highlighted via MIT Technology Review coverage linked in the roundup [singularityhub].
• The roundup also points readers to broader tech culture pieces, including WIRED’s commissioned series on decommissioning infrastructure (EVs, undersea cables, supercomputers, space stations) as an emerging focus for tech lifecycle and policy debates [wired; singularityhub].

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