Happy Friday.
Vegas is about to have up to 8,000 cars with no one behind the wheel, which, honestly, tracks for Vegas.
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Enjoy today's news.
Nevada approves robotaxi permits for Tesla, Uber, and Waymo in Clark County, allowing up to 8,000 driverless vehicles within a year.
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China deploys robot traffic officers in Hangzhou, cutting helmetless riding and stop-line violations by more than 40%.
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OpenAI adds an Apple Messages plugin to ChatGPT for Mac, letting it read, search, and send iMessages, SMS, and RCS with user confirmation.
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Anthropic launches Claude Academy, a free learning platform offering self-paced courses and tutorials to build AI skills.
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Apple Music plans to add visible labels for AI-generated music, flagging tracks made mostly with generative AI.
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Pew Research finds 10% of English webpages show signs of AI writing, jumping to over a third for post-ChatGPT pages.
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Waymo unveils a custom 5nm AI chip built to power faster, real-time decisions in its self-driving robotaxis.
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Meta expands Pocket to the U.S., letting users generate AI minigames with prompts and share them.
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Uber expands driverless rides to Dubai, partnering with Baidu to launch Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis.
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Adobe Firefly launches commercial AI audio tools, letting creators generate music, speech, and sound effects.
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Binance launches Agent OS, enabling AI agents to analyze markets and trade autonomously through subaccounts with user-set limits.
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Harvey debuts Tenet, a legal AI model built on Kimi K3, running at under a fourth of the cost of leading foundation models.
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New Sourcery episode: Colossal Biosciences co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm joins Molly O'Shea to discuss bringing back extinct species like the woolly mammoth, advancing artificial womb technology, and spinning out Astromech, its $3.8B AI biology platform.
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New YC Paper Club episode: domain experts dive deep into data, covering agent benchmarking, diffusion language models for production, and practical scaling laws for multilingual pre-training.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
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