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Federal regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are evaluating a petition requesting a formal investigation into reports that Tesla's driverless robotaxis sped through school zones. The petition cites alleged violations of posted speed limits in areas meant to protect children.
Helix Carbon has built an electrolyzer-based process that converts carbon dioxide from blast furnace exhaust back into carbon monoxide, which can be reinjected into the furnace to help reduce iron ore. CEO David Brown says the system can process raw, unpurified exhaust directly, unlike most electrolyzers that require concentrated CO2 feedstock. The company says this reduces the amount of coke needed in iron production.
A group calling itself Cyberleek posted footage showing GTA 6 character Lucia nude in scenes like public walking and skydiving, likely from an early developer build rather than the final game. The group is threatening to release the game's full main storyline before its Nov. 19 launch unless Take-Two Interactive apologizes for skipping physical discs and issues a disc version, while also promoting a self-named cryptocurrency it says will trigger a full leak if it hits a $30 million market cap. This follows an earlier leak of a nude 24-minute video featuring the character Jason.
Marshallese navigators built stick charts from coconut-frond midribs, shells and sennit fiber to represent ocean swell patterns and island locations across the Pacific. Each chart was so personal in design that typically only its maker could fully interpret and use it for canoe navigation. The practice declined after World War II amid new electronic navigation tools, reduced inter-island canoe travel, and disruption from US nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll.
PostEra, a Y Combinator-backed biotech company, is hiring AI researchers to expand its agentic research team. The company uses its Proton platform to speed up medicinal chemistry work, has nominated multiple clinical candidates in women's health and fertility, and has secured over $1 billion in AI partnerships with firms including Pfizer and Amgen. It also runs an antiviral drug discovery center backed by a major NIH grant.
Kroger announced it will eliminate 3,000 corporate positions over the next three years as part of a push to adopt artificial intelligence and other technology. CEO Greg Foran told employees in a memo that the company needs to reduce duplicative work and reassess where tasks are best performed. The cuts follow Kroger's announcement last month of an AI strategy aimed at improving customer experience and business outcomes.
OpenAI says it discovered a hidden surveillance device planted in an executive conference room by employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was fired and arrested by the FBI on October 9. Federal prosecutors charged him with illegally intercepting oral communications after the device, found hidden behind a TV's USB port, was linked to him via a camera OpenAI had installed. OpenAI says it has found no evidence the employee accessed or exfiltrated model weights, source code, or customer data.
A new report examined existing research on medical cannabis as a treatment for insomnia and concluded there is no reliable evidence it meaningfully improves sleep. The reviewers found the available studies insufficient to support claims of a meaningful benefit.
A new DIY web app lets people repurpose an unused smartphone into a voice-interactive jack-o'-lantern by linking it to a free Google API key or a paid OpenAI key. The base pumpkin personality is free to use indefinitely, while a $1.99 one-time unlock adds extra characters, voices, and colors. Users can also transfer a key from their main phone to an old device via a QR-code scan feature.
A report from SammyGuru reveals design and spec details for Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch next month possibly under the Galaxy Glasses name. The glasses will come in nine styles combining frames from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, weigh 41 grams, and include a Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip, 12MP camera, and battery life up to 9 hours (72 with the charging case). They'll be sold at Warby Parker, Gentle Monster, and Samsung Experience Stores, though pricing hasn't been disclosed.
Judge Edward Davila has partially granted Apple's request for expedited discovery in its trade secrets case against former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan, OpenAI, and io Products. The order requires defendants to hand over forensic images already collected and documents used to guide interviews of Apple candidates for OpenAI's consumer hardware team, while some broader requests were denied or deferred. Apple alleges the two ex-employees misused confidential Apple product information to aid OpenAI's hardware efforts and improperly extracted details from other Apple staff during interviews.
Antima Jain and Pooja Choudhary, friends who met 11 years ago in Minnesota, used their own savings to launch a Color Me Mine paint-your-own pottery studio franchise in Edina in March 2025. The pair, both immigrants from India, bonded over shared interests before deciding to start a business together as their children grew more independent.