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Ahead of Tuesday’s earnings, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the carmaker will begin selling its Optimus humanoid robot in 2026. In fact, Optimus has already started performing tasks autonomously, like handling batteries, in one of Tesla’s facilities, according to its earnings report.

“Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026,” the executive posted on X.

During Tuesday’s earnings call, Musk also estimated that the long-term demand for general purpose humanoid robots is “in excess of 20 billion units,” a number he got to by combining the 8 billion people on Earth who will apparently want one with the industrial use cases.

An English school has been formally reprimanded by the U.K.’s data protection regulator after it used facial recognition technology without getting specific opt-in consent from students for processing their facial scans.

The news reignites the ongoing privacy debate around the use of biometric data, particularly in school settings where children are involved. New York banned facial recognition in schools last year, becoming the first U.S. state to do so, after AI businesses ramped up their marketing efforts with the promise of making schools more secure.

Some schools have been using facial recognition software to manage food payments for at least four years, a trend that sparked the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) into action after a swathe of schools in Scotland started using the technology in 2021.

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