Hezbollah rejects ceasefire + The 60-year plan to make you love robots

Friday Headlines:

Labor facing uphill battle to get CGT and NDIS legislation passed
Government calls for investigation into sexual assault allegations of Australian flotilla members
Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire
Bondi hero charged with assault
Content creator fired over viral Indigenous skit

Deep Dive: A robot recently beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes, another walked the Met Gala red carpet, while one major world religion is ordaining them as monks.

Humanoid robots are turning up in spaces we once thought were exclusively ours - and that's not an accident. It's the latest move in a multibillion-dollar effort to make machines feel familiar, relatable and, ultimately, welcome.

In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou traces the 60-year playbook behind our relationship with machines - from a 1960s MIT chatbot to a breathing AI in your pocket – to explain how we arrived at a moment where robots are beginning to move from our screens and showrooms into our streets.

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