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Waymo will temporarily limit robotaxi service in all of its nationwide markets, the company said Friday, as US cities prepare for a wave of protests of federal immigration policies and law enforcement and military crackdowns on demonstrators. The Alphabet subsidiary will stop service in Los Angeles altogether, Wired reported. Waymo spokesperson Sandy Karp confirmed the service pause and adjustments but
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang told employees in a memo on Thursday that he’s leaving for Meta, confirming reports from earlier in the week about his departure and a large investment from the social networking company, CNBC reported.
Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out, The Verge reported. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It says its new, experimental AI-based model for forecasting cyclones —
Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney, a generative AI company accusing it of copyright infringement according to a copy of the complaint obtained by Axios.
Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,”according to reporting from The New York Times. The social media giant chose 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, founder of CEO and Scale AI, to join the new lab as part of a broader reorganization of Meta’s AI efforts under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ArsTechnica reported.
The stakes are higher than usual at this year’s WWDC. Major Apple Intelligence features the company teased at last year’s conference are stalled out, the company got a stern talking-to from a federal judge a couple of months ago over its App Store policies, and then there’s everything going on with tariffs. It’s not an entirely enviable position, but the show must go on, The Verge reported.
Microsoft and Asus have just announced two ROG Xbox Ally devices that include a new full-screen Xbox experience for handhelds. After promising to combine “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds this year, Microsoft is now revealing exactly how it is overhauling the Xbox app, Game Bar, and Windows itself to better to compete with SteamOS, The Verge reported.