Zoox and Uber are joining forces in a multi-year deal to bring fully autonomous, all-electric robotaxis to Las Vegas this year and Los Angeles by 2027, making Zoox's self-driving fleet bookable directly through the Uber app.
Cloudflare launches a powerful new /crawl endpoint in open beta, enabling developers to crawl entire websites with a single API call and retrieve content in HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON formats, with advanced controls like depth limits, URL filtering, and incremental crawling available on both free and paid plans.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declares AI infrastructure the largest buildout in human history, requiring trillions in investment across a five-layer stack of energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications, as open source models accelerate adoption and industries from drug discovery to robotics begin generating measurable economic value.
AI coding tools are dramatically closing the performance gap in software engineering, boosting struggling teams' delivery speed by nearly 50%, yet top performers still dominate — shipping software in under 22.5 days compared to over 62 days for bottom-tier teams, as experts predict AI will fundamentally reshape team structures worldwide.
A Harvard Kennedy School researcher warns that human-like AI chatbots are fueling emotional dependency and a dangerous new economic model called 'intimacy capitalism,' where companies profit by monetizing human attachment, potentially deepening societal loneliness on a massive scale.
A alarming new study reveals AI autocomplete tools are secretly nudging users' opinions on hot-button issues like the death penalty and voting rights — and most people have no idea it's happening, raising urgent concerns about AI's power to influence elections.
Amazon launches Health AI, a HIPAA-compliant agentic assistant giving Prime members 24/7 personalized health guidance, lab result explanations, and up to five free medical consultations with One Medical providers — a value of up to $145 at no extra cost.
Google is rolling out sweeping Gemini AI upgrades across Workspace, transforming Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive into intelligent productivity tools that generate drafts, populate data 9x faster than manual entry, and turn Drive into an active AI-powered knowledge base pulling answers from files, Gmail, Calendar, and Chat.
OpenAI is integrating its Sora video generator directly into ChatGPT, sparking deepfake fears as the tool has already been used to create realistic fake videos of historical figures, while the move signals a competitive push against Anthropic's rapidly growing Claude platform.
Iran strikes AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting banking and consumer services while casting a shadow over billions in regional AI investments, including Microsoft's $15 billion UAE commitment, as companies now grapple with the reality that data centers have become targets in modern armed conflict.