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Horizon demos unmanned handling, Meta drops web-collection clause, junior hiring falls to 9% — and 8 more | BPJ News

Labour-saving systems are moving beyond the press, while hidden costs emerge in AI contracts, hiring and funding.

Horizon will demonstrate an unmanned workflow linking presses with binding, sorting, packing and shipping. At Anthropic, AI agents logged six times as many operating hours as humans worked, yet meeting time also increased.

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Horizon demos unmanned handling, Meta drops web-collection clause, junior hiring falls to 9% — and 8 more | BPJ News

Horizon will demonstrate an automated post-press workflow from October 28–30.

The target steps are transport, sorting and packing. At Anthropic, junior hires made up a smaller share of recruitment while meeting time increased. Meta revised a clause in its commercial terms after criticism.

On paper, converting vertical-scroll manga into books and printing every design differently in a small run are turning re-editing itself into the product.…

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