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It ended the contract about a year before February 2026, around early 2025, saying the cost did not justify how little the robots were used. A regional newspaper reported the story on 17 February 2026, and the hospital's nurses' union added its own account on 13 March 2026. The union, the Washington State Nurses Association, said the robots needed escorts between floors and never delivered meaningful time savings. It also said nurses had no voice in the original purchasing decision. Diligent Robotics still reports nearly 100 robots operating in more than 25 hospital facilities, using its own activity counts; no independent outcome evaluation was located. Measuring this evidence against Diligent Robotics' published, never-individually-checked score of 83.0 produces 79.8 — enough to cross out of the Exemplary band into Established. That finding was set aside for two reasons. This benchmark requires at least two independent sources before publishing a band-change finding, with one of them top-tier. The evidence located here — a regional news report and a nurses' union statement — does not include a top-tier source. The crossing also depends on a scoring bonus that disappears once enough categories fall below an exact threshold, in a score that had never been checked against evidence before. Diligent Robotics' published score of 83.0 is unchanged. Separately, the AI lab Imbue confirmed its own published score of 81.4 this cycle, measured at 81.1, with no independent evidence located in either direction. Its Exemplary rating rests on seven of eight categories sitting at exactly the scoring formula's bonus threshold — the same structural pattern now visible in Diligent Robotics' case. Both are referred to a joint review of every organization whose top-tier score depends on that threshold.

He demanded accountability and separately raised alarm at reports that the Department of Homeland Security is seeking to spend $10 million to $20 million on electric shock gloves for immigration agents, warning the devices would increase the violence associated with their operations. A rising death count from an official United Nations statement is treated as a continuing pattern, not a new finding, because it was already built into a downgrade applied in June 2026. The shock-glove purchase is a reported procurement plan; nothing has been bought or deployed on the public record. Measuring both facts together produces 16.3 out of 100, within normal rounding of the published 17.5. The United States' published score of 17.5, in the benchmark's lowest band, is unchanged.

The court did uphold one finding: that a Starbucks manager illegally threatened to deny maternity leave benefits to a pregnant employee if her store unionized. Measuring this mixed ruling against Starbucks' record produces 43.1 out of 100, matching a downgrade proposal already open since 1 September to the decimal point. No second finding was filed. Starbucks' published score of 48.4 is unchanged.

A government spokesperson said further measures, including a possible state of siege with curfews, would be imposed if the government judged it necessary — an option the decree allows but that has not been used. The extension continues an emergency regime already reflected in Bolivia's published score; it does not add a new category of harm, and a contemplated-but-undeclared measure is not scored as conduct. Measuring the extension against Bolivia's record produces 5.0 out of 100, within normal rounding of the published 6.3. Bolivia's published score is unchanged.

The published robotics-labs row still describes the business under its original name; how the row should reflect the acquisition is an open question, not resolved by this cycle. An FDA adverse-event report on file describes a February 2024 malfunction during a product demonstration, in which an emergency stop was engaged and smoke was seen in a rear enclosure; no patient was present, and the manufacturer retrieved the part and alerted other customers. That response supports the transparency the published score already credits. Measuring the full record produces 60.6 out of 100, within normal rounding of the published 62.5 — just 0.6 points above the boundary with the benchmark's Functional band. Harmonic Bionics' published score is unchanged.

Gendarmes used tear gas after protesters broke through a security cordon and threw objects at officers; 26 people were detained and about 24 injured, including 8 gendarmes, according to Agence France-Presse. The live-export ban itself was imposed by the European Commission, not Romania's government, and is not scored as Romanian conduct. What is scored is Romania's own response: the government's statement described the protest as having degenerated into regrettable acts of violence, without addressing the gendarmerie's tear-gas use, and a promised drought-compensation payment was cut from 100 to 19 euros per hectare. Measuring this record produces 35.6 out of 100, within normal rounding of the published 37.5. Romania's published score is unchanged.