Waymo tells Axios there is no AI shortcut to safe self-driving
Waymo says larger AI models alone cannot deliver safe autonomous driving at scale, arguing that sensor coverage, guardrails and years of testing remain essential.
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Waymo says larger AI models alone cannot deliver safe autonomous driving at scale, arguing that sensor coverage, guardrails and years of testing remain essential.
Google says Gemini Live can now handle multi-step tasks across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Drive and other connected services through voice commands, with some features requiring paid Google AI subscriptions.
Florida is advancing proposed AI policies for public schools, charter schools, colleges and universities, including parental notice, privacy protections and limits on student-facing tools.
Amazon plans to close Mechanical Turk on September 30, Business Insider reports, ending a major platform for flexible human task work as AI systems increasingly perform some of the tasks it was built to support.
The Daily Star reports that Stability AI raised $76 million in a Series B round involving Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures.
TechRepublic reports that Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a preview platform that uses AI agents for contract review, legal research, regulatory monitoring and related legal workflows.
Spectrum News reports that Louisville Democratic Socialists of America members are planning a public campaign to oppose hyperscale AI data centers in Louisville and Jefferson County.
Google Research says GlucoFM improved prediction across metabolic-health tasks and post-meal glucose responses, while acknowledging that its training population remains modest and its real-time performance is untested.
TechCrunch reports that Instinct, an AI assistant from Spear Street Technology, raised a $250 million Series B, bringing total funding to $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. The product remains in private beta and has drawn privacy concerns over its permissions and terms of use.
A Thai research team adapted Ai2’s open data-curation toolkit to create Mangosteen, a 47-billion-token corpus that the team says improved Thai-language model performance while removing much of the underlying web data.
New York Business Journal reports that NYC startup Multiplier raised $6 million in seed funding to expand AI software that helps asset managers analyze internal research, data and institutional knowledge. The company was formerly called WithAI.
Gadget Review reports that Druyan-Sagan Associates sued Luma AI, alleging the company used eight seconds of Carl Sagan’s voice in an advertisement for its Ray 3.14 video platform without authorization and failed to remove the campaign after a cease-and-desist request. The source does not independently confirm the…
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