Stellantis teams up with Chinese AI firm Pony to bring self-driving robotaxis to European cities by 2026, starting with Luxembourg testing using Peugeot e-Traveller vans equipped with autonomous driving technology.
AI infrastructure company Groq raises $750 million at a $6.9 billion valuation, led by Disruptive with BlackRock participation, as the firm powers over two million developers and Fortune 500 companies with fast compute solutions across multiple continents.
Leadbay AI launches claiming to discover 3x more small business leads than LinkedIn by targeting overlooked, data-scarce markets that traditional platforms miss, with founders asserting existing tools cover only 0.001% of digital signals and helped clients close 55% more deals from previously unknown companies.
Google launches Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, enabling developers to build location-aware AI applications that tap into geospatial data from over 250 million places for enhanced travel planning, real estate insights, and hyper-local recommendations.
Meta rolls out groundbreaking parental controls that block teenagers from accessing romantic AI chatbots and one-on-one conversations, implementing PG-13 rating guidelines while automatically detecting suspected underage users who falsely claim adult status, with Instagram features launching early 2025.
A new national survey reveals 73% of Americans demand heavy AI regulation as the public expects superhuman AI within 5 years, with 64% believing such technology should not be developed until proven safe and controllable.
Researchers discover that adding a single sentence to AI prompts doubles output diversity by up to 2.1× while maintaining quality, with the technique called Verbalized Sampling bypassing AI models' tendency to give repetitive answers and showing particular success in creative writing and dialogue tasks.
Japan launches groundbreaking OHISAMA satellite in 2025 to beam solar power from space to Earth via microwaves, marking the first real test of orbital energy transmission as the nation seeks energy independence despite costs being 10 times higher than ground-based alternatives.
Medal founder Pim de Witte launches AI lab General Intuition with $133.7 million seed funding after rejecting a $500 million OpenAI acquisition offer, planning to use 2 billion annual gaming videos to develop AI models that navigate 3D environments and interact with the real world.
Researchers develop revolutionary algorithmic fault tolerance technique that slashes quantum error correction time by 100x, detecting and fixing errors during computation instead of pausing for checks, dramatically accelerating the timeline for practical large-scale quantum computing.