Waymo hits 450,000 weekly robotaxi rides
Waymo, the Alphabet Inc. autonomous driving subsidiary, recorded 450,000 robotaxi rides per week, according to an investor letter from Tiger Global Management to its investors that CNBC first reported...
SoftBank and Nvidia eye $1B+ Skild AI investment
SoftBank Group Corp. and Nvidia Corp. have entered discussions to lead an investment exceeding $1 billion in Skild AI, a software company developing a foundational robotics model, according to Reuters...
Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack
Anthropic launched Claude Code in Slack, a beta feature enabling developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The research preview builds on Anthropic’s existing Slack integration...
Environmental groups call for national moratorium on AI data centers
More than 230 environmental organizations, including Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace, last week urged members of Congress to support a national moratorium on the approval and ...
Nvidia gets green light to sell H200 chips to China with 25% US cut
The Department of Commerce has permitted Nvidia to export H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to approved customers in China, according to Semafor.
The U.S. government will receive a 25% share of ...
Paramount counters Netflix with $108.4B hostile bid for Warner Bros.
Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile, $108.4 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) after Warner had agreed to an $82.7 billion acquisition by Netflix.
Paramount is directly ap...
Google Zero: EU probes impact of AI Overviews on web traffic
The European Union initiated an antitrust investigation into Google over allegations that the company unfairly uses content from web publishers and YouTube creators to gain an advantage in artificial ...
LLMs show distinct cultural biases in English vs Chinese prompts
A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour challenges the prevailing assumption that generative artificial intelligence behaves consistently across different languages, revealing instead that lar...
New robot builds furniture from voice commands in 5 minutes
MIT researchers developed a new speech-to-reality system that combines 3D generative AI with robotic assembly to fabricate objects on demand. The system created items like furniture in as little as fi...
IBM acquires Confluent to build real-time AI data platform
IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire data streaming leader Confluent, a move designed to cement its infrastructure capabilities for the generative AI era. In a memo sent to employees...
