Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone
Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe.
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AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
At Kilo Code, engineers are reading or writing code themselves only about 1% of the time now, according to co-founder Emilie Schario — the rest is agents. That shift is forcing new questions onto dev teams: which systems are safe to hand over, who cleans up when models goof up, how to support multi-model architectures, and whether skyrocketing token bills mean real progress or just burned IT budget.As far as tech leads from Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic are concerned, it’s a natural — and welc
TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app
Bingers is a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved with TV Time, while adding support for importing their viewing history.
Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits
Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply. But even Texas can be pushed to the brink.
Walmart completes its acquisition of TV advertising company Vibe.co
The acquisition, which was announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart's connected TV advertising platform.
Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.
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Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about
Presented by Rezolve AiMost brands know something is shifting in how consumers find and choose products. What most don't know is how much of that shift has already taken place, where it's happening, or whether they're on the right side of it. That uncertainty is the problem. And the analytics stack most brands rely on isn't built to resolve it.The decision layer has movedIn 2014, 82% of digital commerce started on a brand's website. By 2024 that had fallen to 38%, accord
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.
No One Knows What the Hell Elon Musk’s AI Graph Means
Elon Musk posted a graph to X on Sunday that has left people scratching their heads. At first glance, it appears Musk is ...
Elon Musk reacts after an Afghan man was arrested over the alleged killing of aid worker Elisabeth-Jane Ross
Elon Musk links the murder of Scottish aid worker Elisabeth-Jane Ross to the concept of ’suicidal empathy’ following the ...
Elon Musk immigration history draws criticism over alleged double standard
Michael Knowles says Musk's 2002 citizenship proves his immigration path was legal, but Cuomo isn't convinced.
Elon Musk wants engineers and trade talent: All you need is 3 bullet points, a résumé, and a desire to create the best data centers off Earth
Future work at SpaceX, the company has indicated, includes establishing a lunar economy, mining asteroids, and energy ...
Sam Altman Rejects Elon Musk's AI Utopia: 'Money Will Still Matter' in 10 Years
Sam Altman says money will still matter in a decade, rejecting Elon Musk's claim that AI-driven abundance will make cash irrelevant by 2036.
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company's published benchmarks hold up under broader independent testing, Qwen3.8-Max doesn't merely compete with today
After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs as too untrustworthy for enterprises.