In a quiet laboratory, under the cold wash of fluorescent lights, a robotic arm moved with unsettling certainty. It was sleek, metallic, and engineered for precision—not for violence. Yet in a matter of seconds, that arm lunged forward, its pointed tool driving straight into a prosthetic hand resting on a table. The silicone skin tore, the synthetic digits crumpled, and the machine retracted as if nothing had happened. The researchers watching from behind a glass partition went silent. It was just a fake hand, a lifeless prop made of rubber and wiring. No human was hurt. But the image lingered…

President Donald Trump’s latest boast sounded like the kind of feel-good story that political speeches are made of: a community in rural Louisiana had initially opposed a giant new data center, and then, according to Trump, every resident living near the project suddenly received a $10,000 check. The opposition, he suggested, vanished overnight. People who had been angry were suddenly thrilled, asking, “Where do we do our next data center?” He told this story on Monday to Fox2 Detroit’s Roop Raj, in the middle of a conversation about data centers and Michigan politics, and it was a perfectly neat anecdote:…