Waymo’s robotaxis are getting festively patriotic for America’s Independence Day this weekend.On the Fourth of July, riders will be greeted with a freshly tweaked in-car experience, with fireworks displayed on the passenger screen of their Waymo. The company will also program the vehicle icon on the screen to display stars…
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Meta is making significant progress in the AI model race, its superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang told employees today.In an internal town hall, Wang said that Meta’s upcoming AI model — which is codenamed Watermelon — has caught up with OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5.5 model, he said, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Wang cited the achievement based on closely followed AI model benchmarks. It’s not clear which benchmarks Wang cited.”Watermelon, our next model after…
A Texas man who drove a Tesla into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman, was…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his industry is already like something out of a work of fiction.”Evidence of AI’s economic value, importance to national security and acceleration of scientific discovery is becoming clear,” Altman wrote in an op-ed published by the Financial Times. “In another year or two, we expect…
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America’s largest electric grid has secured emergency federal authority that could allow some data centers and other large electricity users with backup generators to temporarily reduce their power consumption as officials prepare for what could become the system’s highest electricity demand in nearly two decades. PJM Interconnection, which serves about…
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Software engineers are among the most prized talent at any tech company, so why are they suddenly one of the most vulnerable species of the AI boom?On a recent episode of “The Pragmatic Engineer,” famed software engineer Kent Beck gave a pretty blunt answer: “We’re kind of assholes, sometimes.”Software engineers,…
