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Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-21 15:40:43

Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test drives of its robotaxis in Denver and Seattle this week, with humans behind the wheel, the company said Tuesday. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a company spokesperson said in an email. Waymo announced the tests in blog posts. The autonomous vehicle venture aims to expand its driverless, ride-hailing service across the U.S. after already launching commercial opera

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Trump Blames AI for Weird Video of Stuff Being Tossed Out White House Window

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-21 15:00:36

A very strange video appearing to show large objects being thrown out of a window at the White House went viral over Labor Day weekend. President Donald Trump was asked about it during a press conference on Tuesday, and he insisted it must be AI. Curiously, White House staff told Time magazine it was just regular maintenance. The video appears to have been first posted to Instagram on Aug. 31 by an account called WashingtonianProbs. “One of our community members noticed some things being throw

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Google Won’t Have to Sell Chrome Browser After All (But There’s a Catch)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-21 15:35:42

A federal judge ruled in a high-profile antitrust case against Google on Tuesday with some good news and bad news for the tech giant. The good news for Google is that it won’t have to sell off its Chrome browser, which was a very real possibility. Google’s stock soared in after hours trading on the news. The bad news for Google was that it will be required to share data with its rivals and can’t sign many of the exclusive contracts that helped the company become so dominant in the industry. Th

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Apple's new chatbot reportedly rolls out ahead of iPhone 17 - but it's not for you

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-21 19:32:21

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has reportedly launched an AI chatbot for its retail staff. Asa is intended to be an automated digital sales assistant. The chatbot arrives just weeks before the launch of iPhone 17. Apple has reportedly launched a new AI chatbot -- for its employees, not for its customers. Nicknamed Asa, the chatbot is designed to serve as an automated digital assistant for the company's retail staff, maki

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EU Gets Cold Feet Over Google Fine, Fears Potential Trump Backlash

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-21 19:00:58

The European Union has put plans to fine Google on hold. The commission in charge of doling out punishment for digital infractions is reportedly worried that fining the U.S. tech giant for allegedly abusing its dominance in online advertising could provoke U.S. President Donald Trump. Bloomberg and Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources, that E.U. officials had planned to announce the antitrust sanction on Monday; however, that deadline came and went without an announcement. The Commission h

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OpenAI Gets Conspiracy-Brained, Sues Nonprofits

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-21 19:15:25

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have been locked in an ongoing standoff over the fact that OpenAI has operated like a for-profit business despite its nonprofit status. The fight, which has been ongoing in the court of public opinion for years and in the actual courts for months, is starting to rack up collateral damage. According to a report from the San Francisco Standard, critics of OpenAI have started receiving subpoenas from the AI firm over what the company’s leadership seems to believe is a consp

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OpenAI starts building out its app team

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-21 17:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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Tesla’s 4th ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-21 16:18:12

Tesla has published its fourth “Master Plan,” and at a high level it is about how the company wants to lead the charge into planet-wide adoption of humanoid robots and sustainable energy. But the post lacks an important building block of plans: specifics. Even CEO Elon Musk agrees. In one of his only posts about the plan since it was published on Monday — sandwiched in between a steady stream of transphobia and immigration panic — he agreed it was fair to criticize the lack of specifics and sa

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Cloudflare hit by data breach in Salesloft Drift supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:54:00

Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week. The internet giant revealed on Tuesday that the attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management and customer support, which contained 104 Cloudflare API tokens. Cloudflare was notified of the breach on August 23, and it alerted impacted customers of the incident on September 2. Before informing customers of t

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Trump Ends Union Protections for NASA Employees, Citing ‘National Security’

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-21 23:10:38

Just before Labor Day weekend, the White House issued an executive order that excludes NASA and other agencies from collective bargaining rights. NASA employees have previously expressed public dismay against the administration’s budget cuts to the agency and its policy against diversity programs, and the latest order is another major blow to the staff. President Donald Trump signed the new order on August 28, ending collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies with national security m

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Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:25:00

Yesterday afternoon, while much of the country enjoyed Labor Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a new master plan for the company to his social media platform. It's the fourth such document for Tesla, replacing the goals Musk laid out in 2023 when he said the company would sell 20 million EVs a year in 2030. This time, it is not entirely sure what Tesla's plan actually entails. The text, which was reads as though it was written by AI, is at times anodyne, at times confusing, but always free of s

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Trump is moving Space Command to Alabama

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-21 23:44:24

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. President Donald Trump is moving US Space Command’s headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, he announced during a press conference on Tuesday. The change reverses former President Joe Biden’s 2023 decision to leave it in Colorado Springs, where its temporary head

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-21 23:04:05

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications busin

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Join Relay in supporting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-22 03:30:01

Once again, our friends over at Relay have launched their annual campaign to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Relay community has raised over $4 million for St. Jude since 2019. I’ve set up a 9to5Mac fundraising page for St. Jude through the Relay campaign. You can visit that page to make your donation and earn some rewards in the process. St. Jude is a decades-old children’s research hospital based in Tennessee that aims to find new treatments and cures for childhood

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<template>: The Content Template element

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 02:16:42

The <template> HTML element serves as a mechanism for holding HTML fragments, which can either be used later via JavaScript or generated immediately into shadow DOM. This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨November 2015⁩. Attributes This element includes the global attributes. shadowrootmode Creates a shadow root for the parent element. It is a declarative version of the Element.attachShadow() method and ac

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AI’s ‘Zoom and Enhance’ Is Bullshit

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-22 02:55:04

Speculation about Donald Trump’s declining health was running rampant on social media over the holiday weekend as Americans wondered whether the president was actually on his deathbed. Some people even turned to AI tools in an effort to get a better look at grainy photos of Trump, who seemed to only be captured in blurry images like Bigfoot in the wild. But using AI like that is a complete waste of time. The AI only confused people because these “enhancements” can’t actually give you a more hon

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The Winklevoss Twins Are Eyeing $2.22 Billion Crypto IPO

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-22 03:30:35

The Winklevoss twins are aiming for a $2.22 billion IPO for their cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, the company announced in a press release on Tuesday. Crypto is having a moment thanks to the Trump administration’s lax regulatory policies. Meanwhile, the IPO market is heating up again with splashy debuts from other tech stocks like Chime and Figma. The two factors combined make for a particularly profitable environment for crypto-related stocks and IPOs. When it debuts, Gemini will become the t

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OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-22 03:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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Last-Minute Labor Day Deal: The M4 Mac Mini Offers the Best Value I've Seen From an Apple Product, and It's $54 Off

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 07:23:00

Labor Day deal: With concerns over tariffs and price increases, Labor Day offers greater discounts on a ton of items, including top tech like the Apple M4 Mac Mini. You can still pick one up -- even though Labor Day is technically over -- for$545 at Amazon . This powerful computer already offers great value, so saving $54 is a bonus. If you were planning on picking one up, we suggest you make the most of this last-minute Labor Day deal and buy sooner rather than later. I bought the M4 Mac Mini

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Tesla’s fourth ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-22 07:18:12

Tesla has published its fourth so-called “Master Plan,” and at a high level it is about how the company wants to lead the charge into planet-wide adoption of humanoid robots and sustainable energy. But the post lacks an important building block of plans: specifics. Even CEO Elon Musk agrees. In one of his only posts about the plan since it was published on Monday — sandwiched in between a steady stream of transphobia and immigration panic — he agreed it was fair to criticize the lack of specif

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Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-22 11:20:18

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, attends the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2020. There was a moment, during the pandemic-fueled growth days of 2020, when Salesforce surpassed Oracle by market cap. Marc Benioff had finally toppled his protege, Larry Ellison. That moment is long gone. Salesforce's stock price has dropped 25% this year, the worst performance in large-cap tech and the second-steepest decline in the Dow, beating only UnitedHealth . Mea

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Tesla's latest 'Master Plan' isn't a mission statement, it's a discursive mess

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 11:23:01

Tesla has released part four of its so-called "Master Plan" in a post on X. Unlike the more focused " Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan ," which outlined concrete plans for future products, this "Master Plan Part IV" reads more like a rambling utopic fever dream that was partly written by Grok, while touching on Tesla's AI-powered products. Tesla says it intends to "deliver unconstrained sustainability without compromise," and that the company is "unifying our hardware and software at scale" in o

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A Call of Duty movie is coming

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-22 11:03:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Call of Duty is being adapted into a live action film as part of a new deal signed by Activision and Paramount. Paramount, the film studio behind Top Gun: Maverick, will “develop, produce, and distribute a live-action feature film” based on the franchise, and “both companies are committed to honoring the brand’s rich narrative and distinctive style,” the companies say in a pre

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Anthropic is now valued at $183 billion

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-22 11:32:12

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude and one of OpenAI’s chief competitors, emerged from the holiday weekend with big news: A completed funding round of $13 billion, awarding the company a $183 billion post-money valuation. The company s

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Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-22 11:34:16

AI firm Anthropic has raised a $13 billion Series F round that brings its post-money valuation up to $183 billion – funds the company says will be used to grow its enterprise adoption, deepen safety research, and support international expansion. Iconiq co-led the round with Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to the company’s blog post. Other backers include a string of institutional investors, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, private equity, and asset

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OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 19:41:28

OpenAI has promised to release parental controls for ChatGPT within the next month, the company said Tuesday. Once the controls are available, they'll allow parents to link their personal ChatGPT account with the accounts of their teenage children. From there, parents will be able to decide how ChatGPT responds to their kids, and disable select features, including memory and chat history. Additionally, ChatGPT will generate automated alerts when it detects a teen is in a "moment of acute distres

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Jaguar Land Rover says cyberattack ‘severely disrupted’ production

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-22 19:23:11

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that a cyberattack forced the company to shut down certain systems as part of the mitigation effort. Although the incident appears to have a significant impact on the automakers’ production and retail operations, the short statement published on the official website noted that customer data is most likely unaffected. “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems,” reads the

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Next.js is infuriating

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 11:57:41

Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find the motivation to start. But you know what they say: anger is the best motivator. They do say that, right? Some context that's in the background We're going on a journey, you and I. But first, we need to set the scene. Imagine we're working for $COMPANY and one of our Next.js services did an oopsie. This being Next.js,

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Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-10-22 19:30:52

Swedish buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) startup Klarna and its shareholders are reviving its initial public offering, hoping to raise as much as $1.27 billion in a listing that would value the company at up to $14 billion. The company and some of its shareholders are together selling approximately 34.3 million shares between $35 and $37 each, the company said in an update to its registration statement on Tuesday. Klarna would receive proceeds from about 5.6 million shares, while its shareholders are

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SAP to invest over 20 billion euros in 'sovereign cloud' in boost to Europe's AI ambitions

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-23 02:50:59

A person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of SAP, a German multinational software corporation known for its enterprise resource planning solutions. German software giant SAP on Tuesday announced it will invest over 20 billion euros ($23.3 billion) into its sovereign cloud capabilities in Europe over the next 10 years. The company said it was expanding its sovereign cloud offerings to include an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform enabling companies to access various computing ser

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Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

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<template>: The Content Template element

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