Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun
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Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO
Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up
A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’
Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it.
China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose
China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to
Microsoft finally patches critical one-click Copilot vulnerability, almost eight months after learning of it
Almost eight months after confirming a critical security vulnerability within the personal version of its AI assistant, Copilot, Microsoft on Tuesday issued a patch to
Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
SpaceX’s most recent Starship test flight may have ended July 24, but its mission isn’t over yet. The spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean
Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump’s chief censor
Disney today sued the Federal Communications Commission and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a lawsuit that aims to stop what it called a “campaign of
Scrapping your petrol car for An EV pays back In three years
Research published in Science finds that scrapping a petrol car in its first year and replacing it with a battery electric vehicle cuts emissions by
Google and the UK will steer planes around contrails over the Atlantic
The UK government and Google are launching a trial to steer aircraft around climate-warming contrails. Google announced Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday. It is the
Fairphone’s most repairable phone yet is now available in the US at $650
Fairphone is selling directly in the United States for the first time, with the $650 Gen 6+ and its twelve user-replaceable parts. The Dutch company
Baidu’s revenue falls for a fifth quarter as ads keep sliding
Baidu revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter. The advertising business kept shrinking faster than the AI business could grow. The Chinese search company reported
Xiaomi’s first EV just passed half a million deliveries
Xiaomi’s SU7 sedan passed 500,000 cumulative deliveries on 17 August, 28.5 months after the first handover. Deliveries of that model are down 43.6% this year
OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI said on Tuesday it is rewriting its Preparedness Framework after concluding that its upcoming Astra model may have reached the critical threshold for cyber
AI’s attribution problem gets worse as models scale
Diffusion models are becoming sophisticated enough that they can reproduce an image even when they don’t have access to the original. In a series of