Good morning! Today is Monday, the first of June, 2026 and this is the Monday Edition of GEORGE.
GEORGE is how curious thinkers catch up on global stories that matter, each and every weekday morning. It’s your tool to stay ahead of the news with reporting and commentary on what you need to know today.
As we change the page on the wall calendar to June, it is important to note that time not only flies but it flees, it escapes from our grasp rather than just passing quickly.
This reminds several of us of the short poem by Friedrich Schiller, Spruch des Konfuzius, to wit:
„Dreifach ist der Schritt der Zeit:
Zögernd kommt die Zukunft hergezogen,
Pfeilschnell ist das Jetzt entflogen,
Ewig still steht die Vergangenheit.”
“Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!
Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —
And motionless forever stands the Past.”
June, the month with the most daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere, is the sixth month of the year, and is equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere. The start of meteorological summer, June derives its name from the Latin name Junius, which in turn comes from the ancient Roman goddess Juno, wife of Saturn and protector and special counselor of the state.
The month of June includes the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the year. Midsummeris observed in European countries from Austria to Norway to the United Kingdom. Observances in many countries include the lighting of bonfires, feasting, and merrymaking.
Finally, June is also the month in which Gay Pride is celebrated in many countries, with large and colorful parades and multi-day events. The Gay Pride celebrations commemorate the Stonewall Uprising, which took place in the early morning hours of June 29, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Leading off the news this Monday morning is that Jerome Powell, the Fed chairman until this past Friday, received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award over the weekend and used his time on the podium to talk about the need for an independent central bank.
GEORGE’s upgraded @The War Room feature now covers multiple battles and conflicts across the globe. Important dispatches there include the fallout from a Russian drone that struck a residential building in Romania and that Israel captured a strategic castle in Lebanon in its fight against Hizbullah.
Meanwhile, @Today in Brief presents you with important news that you may have missed during a busy weekend including details of the charges brought against the CIA employee who stole $40 million in gold from the government, inflation in the United States rose dramatically in April, China’s manufacturing index for May flatlined, and why Iceland is now in a hurry to join the European Union. GEORGE’s dispatches include how yet another city chose to uninvite Kanye West, who now goes by the name “Ye,” from performing on the heels of multiple public antisemitic outbursts and the debut of his song entitled “Heil Hitler.”
Our @The Sketch editorial cartoon columnist shares his take on artificial intelligence and makes the case that the AI industry has tried to apply AI in products that can’t possibly benefit from it. Meanwhile, be sure to check out the early June forecast for North America, Europe, and Asia in @NOAH ON WEATHER.
As of last week, the daily greeting column you are reading has a name, @The Lede. A “lede” is journalism jargon for the opening sentence or introductory paragraph of a news story. It is deliberately misspelled to avoid confusion with the metal “lead” used in old printing presses to separate lines of type.
Finally, @Today in Brief presents you with important news that you may have missed during a busy weekend including details of the charges brought against the CIA employee who stole $40 million in gold from the government, inflation in the United States rose dramatically in April, China’s manufacturing index for May flatlined, and why Iceland is now in a hurry to join the European Union. GEORGE’s dispatches include how yet another city chose to uninvite Kanye West, who now goes by the name “Ye,” from performing on the heels of multiple public antisemitic outbursts and the debut of his song entitled “Heil Hitler.”
In addition, GEORGE has other exclusive news in today’s edition so don’t touch that dial. Simply scroll down and read more GEORGE, starting with today’s editorial cartoon in @The Sketch. GEORGE will be back tomorrow with a brand-new editorial cartoon, even more news, and stories you won’t find elsewhere.
Until then, remain curious!
Until then, remain curious!
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@THE LEDE (above)
@THE SKETCH (above) AI Warehouse | Kanye’s Farewell Appearance
IN THIS ISSUE
@INTERMEZZO I A member of the Livgardens
@THE WAR ROOM
@INTERMEZZO II Driving in Sønderborg, Denmark
@TODAY IN BRIEF
@INTERMEZZO III Carnegie Hall
@NOAH ON WEATHER Early June Forecasts for North America, Europe, Asia
@DOPPLER ON SCIENCE Manhattanhenge Returns
@RECENT DISPATCHES OF NOTE
@ABOUT GEORGE
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U.S.-Israeli War in Iran
— The United States said it bombed radar and drone-control sites in Iran over the weekend, even as Donald Trump ruminaed over the latest iteration of a proposed peace deal. U.S. Central Command called the actions “self-defense.” Iran said it had targeted an unspecified American air base as payback. Kuwait, which is home to several American military facilities, said that it had come under attack.
— Mr. Trump sent tougher terms for ending the war and for peace to Iran as a framework for a final end-of-war agreement, it is understood. The changes to the proposed deal appear to have been designed to speed up the process by putting pressure on Iran to accept the framework already sent to Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, for approval, one source close to the president said. White House sources said that it was not immediately clear what changes had been made.
— Israeli troops made their most significant incursion into Lebanon for decades, advancing near one of the country’s largest southern cities. The intention of Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is to “deepen and expand” Israel’s grip on places deemed to be under Hizbullah’s control. The Iran-backed militia, meanwhile, fired more than 300 projectiles at Israel. Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire in April.
— Israeli soldiers captured Beaufort castle, a medieval fortress atop a strategically important hill in southern Lebanon. The seizure of Beaufort brought to the forefront bitter memories in both countries of the repeated battles fought there during the nearly two-decade Israeli occupation of the region. That occupation ended when Israeli withdrew in 2000 on the heels of a bloody insurgency led by Hizbullah, the Iran-backed militia. Today, a more recent and ever-widening Israeli conflict with Hizbullah seems far from being over. The Crusader-era castle is the farthest that troops have advanced since entering the country, in March.
Russo-Ukrainian War
— A Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in the city of Galati in eastern Romania early Friday morning. Galati is one of the largest urban centers in eastern Romania. While Russian drones regularly strike Ukrainian ports and other facilities along the Danube River, the river itself meanders between Romania and Ukraine and this results in debris often falling to the ground in nearby Romanian villages. The incident marks the first time that a drone had slammed into a residential building in NATO territory. The drone hit the top of an elevator shaft, exploding on impact and blasting a hole through the ceiling of an apartment on the 10th floor. Asleep in that flat were a 53-year-old woman and her 14-year-old son. While they were not hurt by the initial explosion, they did suffer serious burns when they fled through the flaming wreckage of their living room. Windows in the building’s upper floors were also blown out by the explosion.
— Romania’s foreign minister, Oana-Silvia Țoiu, said in a television interview on Friday called that the drone crash into a Romanian apartment building earlier “falls into the category of incidents that justify the use of instruments” such as Article 4 of NATO’s founding treaty. Article 4, allows a NATO member to open formal discussions about threats to its security. The section states that alliance members “will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened.” Romania’s president, Nicușor Dan, said he had convened the Supreme Consiliul Suprem de Apărare a Ţării, or the Supreme Council of National Defense – Secretariat and would “order proportionate measures in relation to the Russian Federation.” He did not, however, elaborate further. “The unprecedented nature of the event demands a firm, coördinated, and appropriate response,” he wrote in a social-media post, adding, “Romania is a NATO member state and will not accept, in any way, the war of aggression waged by Russia against Ukraine to be transferred onto its citizens.”
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Jerome Powell said that if a U.S. president were to succeed in dismissing a Federal Reserve official with whom he disagreed, subsequent administrations would follow suit. This, in turn, would ultimately destroy the central bank’s credibility, the former central-bank chair warned. He voiced these concerns while receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award. Mr Powell, whom Mr Trump consistently tried to undermine, delivered a pointed defense of institutional independence, emphasizing that shielding the central bank from political pressure is a “priceless asset” necessary for the economy
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Kevin Warsh was officially sworn in as the 17th chairman of the Federal Reserve on Friday, succeeding Jerome Powell. Mr. Warsh took the oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during a ceremony at the White House, before a crowd of lawmakers, administration officials, and reporters. During the White House event, Mr. Trump told the assemblage: “I want Kevin to be totally independent,” underscoring the need for the Fed to do its job sans political influence
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The European Union agreed to unlock €16.4 billion ($19.1 billion) in previously frozen recovery and cohesion funds for Hungary following sweeping anti-corruption and rule-of-law reforms enacted by newly elected miniszterelnöke, or Prime Minister, Péter Magyar. The news came following a meeting with Magyar ur, whose government moved to restore judicial independence, launched new anti-corruption initiatives, and formally requested to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. Some funding – particularly over €530 million related to migration, asylum, and LGBTQ concerns – remains frozen. The new miniszterelnöke, elected on a promise to clean up the country, said that the money will help “jump-start the economy.”
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Corporate America, meet the head of accounting. Artificial-intelligence sticker shock is hitting companies of all sizes, making corporate managers wonder whether unbridled spending on AI is delivering meaningful results to anyone but AI consultants and AI companies. AI is bringing with it balloooning IT costs, soaring electrical bills, and uncertain returns on investment. As a result, corporations are bringing in cost accountants to compute rigorous cost-benefit analysis for AI, hoping to avoid one company’s recent experience of finding out it spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Clause licenses distributed to its employees, the website Axios reported.
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A coach bus operated by a driver who could not speak English and traveling at a high rate of speed slammed into a work-zone traffic backup near Quantico, Virginia, after the operator of the bus, 48-year-old Jing S. Dong, failed to apply the brakes appropriately. The motorcoach was owned by E&P Travel. The driver, Mr. Dong, killed a total of five people after failing to slow down and striking multiple vehicles in Stafford County, Virginia Police said. Four of the victims of the crash were from one family and were en route to a wedding. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident. “It seems fairly clear that if there was (sic) any braking there wasn’t much, because of the speed and severity of the collision,” said Tom Chapman, an NTSB board member.
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The Ansel Adams Trust denounced New York City gallerist James Danziger for his sale of editions of one of Ansel Adams’ best known black-and-white photographs, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico,” that had been colorized by artificial intelligence tools under the aegis of Mr. Danziger. Mr. Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He died in 1984. The trust said that the action taken by the gallerist, which was then offered at an art fair, “exploited Ansel’s name, reputation, and his most iconic image.” The discovery of the color editions reopens the debate on copyright, heirs, public domain, and control of works after artists’ deaths, although it appears that, because the copyright was not renewed in the late 1960s when it would have expired, the image is now in the public domain, which is why the trust’s protest barely makes mention of the copyright and instead focuses instead on Adams’ name, reputation, and the exploitation of a legacy.
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At the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering of defense ministers, key U.S. allies in the region spoke about the security impact of geopolitical tensions both in Asia-Pacific and in the Middle East, while the United States, Australia, and Britain agreed to develop aquatic drones to protect vulnerable subsea cables. Japan’s Defense Minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, strongly rejected China’s claim that Japan is moving toward “neo-militarism,” accusing Beijing of rapidly arming itself, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that his country, Japan and South Korea are “deepening” their defense coöperation, while also touting newly-stable ties with China. Finally, India said that it had finalised a sale to Vietnam of its supersonic, long-range BrahMos missiles The Shangri-La Dialogue is an inter-governmental security conference held annually in Singapore by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The event is commonly attended by defense ministers, permanent heads of ministries, and military chiefs of mostly Asia-Pacific states. The forum’s name is derived from the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, where it has been held since 2002.
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Ghana’s parliament passed a bill criminalizing homosexuality and the promotion of gay and lesbian activities. The bill proposes that identifying as gay or lesbian be punished by up to three years’ imprisonment, and also introduces a “duty to report” prohibited acts to police. A simlar bill was passed in 2024 but Nana Akufo-Addo, the country’s president at the time, did not sign it. Ghana’s current president, John Mahama, previously indicated that he may sign this bill into law.
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Inflation in the United States continues to rise. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index , the primary metric used by the U.S. Federal Reserve to measure and target national inflation, rose by 3.8% year over year in April. The Iran war pushed up food and energy costs, sending prices to their highest level since May 2023. That is weighing on economic growth: new data, released separately, indicates that the United States’ gross domestic product grew by less than expected in the first quarter.
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Chinese manufacturing flatlined in May, following two months of expansion, official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Sunday showed, as weaker domestic demand and rising energy costs due to the war in Iran took their toll. The purchasing managers’ index, a survey of business activity, fell from 50.3 in April to 50.0 which, translated, means it neither grew nor shrunk. Meanwhile, China’s non-manufacturing PMI rose from 49.4 to 50.1. The new orders sub-index dropped to 49.9 from 50.6 in April, while the sub-index on production edged down to 51.2 from April’s 51.5. The sub-index for raw material stockpiles fell to 48.6 from 49.3 in April.
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Iceland is moving closer to joining the European Union, this after Mr. Trump Mr. Trump repeatedly insisted that the United States must have Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory. The demand has shaken the foundations of the North American Treaty Organization alliance and it rattled the citizens of Iceland when the U.S. president repeatedly confused which of the two Nordic lands. The Alþingi, Iceland’s parliament, voted in favor of proceeding with a public referendum, which will take place on 29 August 2026, to approve a resumption of membership negotiations. If voters approve, formal talks with the bloc will restart and then the country’s citizenry will vote in a second referendum to ratify final accession terms. The Alþingi, which was established in 930 B.C.E. at Þingvellir, is the world’s oldest continuously operating legislature.
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Add the city of Reggio Emilia to the list of towns and cities where Kanye West is persona non grata. Amidst protests by the Jewish communities of Modena and Reggio Emilia, alongside consumer advocacy groups, all who formally denounced the rapper’s history of pro-Nazi and antisemitic remarks, the city’s prefect – the local official responsible for public safety and order – Salvatore Angieri, decided that Kanye West, who goes by the name “Ye,” ordered him removed from the lineup at the Festival Pulse of Gaia at the RCF Arena on 18 July, citing public order, safety concerns, and the concrete risk of large counter-demonstrations. Mr. West is a controversial rapper who has made numerous antisemitic statements in the past and who, in May of 2025, released a song entitled “Heil Hitler,” for which he later apologized. Reggion Emilia now joins four other cites who have engaged – and then publicly fired – Mr. West, including London, where he was supposed to appear at the city’s Wireless Festival in August; Marseille, Postponed indefinitely after the French government and local officials sought to block the performance; and two other cities, Chorzów, Polandand Prag, Czechia. He was also blocked from entering Australia, this following his release of highly offensive antisemitic content, in late 2025. The concert was to take place at a 200,000-square-meter (2,152, 782-square-foot) open-air venue located in the non-operational area of Reggio Emilia Airport. The venue hosts numerous national and international concerts and performances each year.
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Travis Scott, whose concerts have faced tremendous scrutiny over safety since a 2021 crowd crush at the Astroworld Festival at NRG Park in Houston killed ten people and injured hundreds, was scheduled to appear at the Festival Pulse of Gaia on 17 July and was removed from the program at the same time as Kanye West. The incident in Houston, which took place on 5 November, was marred by a confusing layout with inadequate signage, poor lighting, lack of adequate water stations, lack of exits, 100-foot-wide (30 m) quadrants conducive to severe and unmanageable crowd surges, and access aisles too narrow for security and medical staff, according to recollections by early attendees. Mr. Scott founded the Astroworld Festival in 2018.
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Japan’s SoftBank Group will invest €45 billion ($54 billion) in the northern Hauts-de-France region in France to build three data centers for artificial intelligence, the company announced on Saturday. The tech and telecommunications giant said it will eventually spend up to €75 billion ($87.5 billion) across all of France, creating Europe’s largest data-center network. Softbank, which described the investment as the biggest of its kind thus far in Europe, has invested heavily in AI, including almost $65 billion in OpenAI, a majority stake in Arm Holdings, $6.5 billion in Ampere Computing, and $2 billion in Intel.
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A former CIA officer in Virginia, David Rush, stands accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars in gold bars and foreign currency from the agency that employed him, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit. Mr. Rush was arrested last week in Virginia on one charge of theft of public money. He has yet to enter a plea and is currently behind bars awaiting a detention hearing. The FBI said that Mr. Rush became a senior executive government employee with top-secret clearance after repeatedly lying on job applications about his military service and education. He falsely stated he had been a Navy pilot and had advanced degrees. Mr. Rush worked for a CIA branch that pursues highly secret projects and he had a professional relationship with the deputy defense secretary, Stephen A. Feinberg. Court documents do not address how the CIA failed to detect Mr. Rush’s lies and false claims in the hiring process or in subsequent reviews for promotions. He was employed by the CIA for 17 years, according to the FBI affidavit, and his claims were quickly debunked by investigators.
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Early June Forecast for North America, Europe including the British Isles, and Asia
North America
Across North America, early June weather is showing considerable regional contrasts. The northeastern United States and eastern Canada are expected to remain somewhat cooler than average following recent storm systems, with highs generally ranging from 70° F (21° C) to 80° F (27° C), while New York is expected to see temperatures near 75° F (24° C) for much of the coming week. Further west, a broad area of warmer-than-average weather is expanding across the northern Plains and western Canada, where temperatures are running 5° to 10° F (3° to 6° C) above normal. Parts of Texas and the Desert Southwest are already seeing early-season heat, with Phoenix forecast to approach 105° F (41° C) and portions of southern Texas reaching 95° F (35° C). Meanwhile, scattered thunderstorms and localized severe weather remain possible across the central Plains, while the Pacific Northwest is expected to remain relatively mild, with highs largely in the 65° F (18° C) to 75° F (24° C) range.
Europe including the British Isles
Much of Europe remains in the grip of an unusually intense late-spring heatwave, with temperatures running 10° C to 15° C above seasonal norms across parts of western and central Europe. London recently reached 35.1° C (95.2° F), setting a new May record, while Paris has seen temperatures exceed 35° C (95° F) and parts of Spain are approaching 40° C (104° F). Vienna is expected to see highs near 30° C (86° F) during the coming week, while Warsaw may approach 28° C (82° F). Conditions are somewhat cooler in Scandinavia, where highs generally range from 15° C (59° F) to 22° C (72° F). The current heat is expected to gradually ease across western Europe as Atlantic air begins to push eastward, bringing a greater chance of showers and thunderstorms to France, Germany, and the British Isles by midweek.
Asia
Across Asia, an unusually early heatwave is affecting large portions of the region. Japan is experiencing temperatures well above seasonal averages, with Tokyo expected to reach 29° C (84° F) to 31° C (88° F) during the coming week. In China, temperatures in Beijing are forecast to reach 34° C (93° F), while parts of central and eastern China continue to experience persistent heat accompanied by elevated electricity demand. Further south, Taiwan is expected to see highs around 31° C (88° F) to 33° C (91° F) with scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Meanwhile, much of northern India and Pakistan remain exceptionally hot, with temperatures widely exceeding 45° C (113° F) in some areas. Forecasters are also closely monitoring the South Asian monsoon, which is expected to be weaker than average this season, raising concerns over drought conditions in parts of the subcontinent.
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MANHATTANHENGE 2026 DESCENDS ON NEW YORK CITY, BUT JUST FOR TWO NIGHTS
Manhattanhenge returned Thursday exactly at 8:14 p.m. (20:14) EDT, and the extravaganza will repeat the spectacular view of the sun setting in the west, flanked by Manhattan’s famous streetscapes, Friday evening at 8:13 p.m. (20:13) EDT.
A “Manhattanhenge” occurs when the bottom or the midpoint of the sun grazes the Manhattan’s iconic street grid,. The street grid was established by the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, a visionary civic design that imposed an orderly, rectilinear layout of numbered streets and avenues across the island.
When Manhattanhenge occurs, it is a most impressive visual spectacle, and one can look down the center line of the street westward toward New Jersey at sunset and see the full solar disk slightly above the horizon and in between the profiles of the buildings.
The term “Manhattanhenge” was coined by analogy to Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, comprised of a ring of stones, each 13 feet (4 m) high, seven feet (2.1 meters) wide, with an approximate weight of 25 tons (22.7 metric tons) each
There will be a second set of performances in July as well.
The best streets to view are those with an unobstructed view of the horizon, including 57th Street, 42nd Street, 34th Street, 23rd Street, and 14th Street. It is advisable to grab a prime viewing spot early, as Manhattanhenge attracts a fairly large live audience. If the reader sees someone positioned with an SLR and tripod in the middle of a major crosstown street, he should not think it odd as there will be many such eccentrics braving streets usually driven with utter precision by fearless, rule-bending, hyper-aggressive cabbies.
Ukraine is establishing a 15-km (9.3-mile)-deep “Drone Line” along the front lines and simultaneously expanding its short-range strike or “kill zone” to 100 to 150 km (62 to 93 miles) behind Russian lines. The kill zone is the area behind the front line where Ukrainian systems can strike Russian troops, vehicles, and logistics, and its size increased from 50 km (31 miles) in a very short period of time. Integrated into the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Drone Line initiative relies on first-person-view, or FPV, drones, autonomous systems, and 15,000 new specialized recruits whose job it will be to cut off Russian logistics and supply routes.
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A company that is designing a “helpful robot” for the home happened upon an ingenious way to test out prototypes of its robot without risking the destruction of the design team’s individual residences: Have designers and testers, under the cover of darkness, let complete homes from Airbnb operators and let their robots have complete run of the house, that is if the house were Camp Runamok. Bot Company, which is backed by a litany of highly-regarded venture capitalists including Greenoaks, NFDG, Spark, Eclipse, Kleiner Perkins, and Y Combinator, doesn’t appear to have used any of the $300 million it has reportedly raised thus far to build a home robot test house. The story was first reported by the San Francisco Standard. Instead of a test facility, the company’s employees descended en masse at the entrance of a poor unsuspecting Airbnb owner who was told that “eight colleagues were visiting the Bay Area for work.” That Airbnb owner was Sean Donovan, who filed suit against the company for $12,383.50 in damages to his home and his belongings, as well as for lost revenue while the Airbnb was closed for over a week for repairs, and Mr. Donovan is apparently not alone. Other Airbnb operators have come forward with similar experiences. The Bot Company, which has not yet revealed its first robot offering, says on its website that it is “building a helpful robot for every home” that can do “all the little things that eat away at our time. Its employees come from other tech firms including Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies,” according to its website. At press time, the Bot Company had not responded to an e-mail from GEORGE seeking comment.
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