Waymo will begin testing autonomous Toyota bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker to provide electric vehicles for robotaxi operations in international markets, including the U.K. Under the partnership announced Friday, Toyota will manufacture the 2027 bZ4X vehicles and integrate Waymo’s self-driving system at its Takaoka factory
Ukraine is using machine gun turrets controlled by artificial intelligence in battle, and they’re working well enough that Kyiv wants to roll them out at a faster pace. While Ukraine began revealing prototypes of these systems last year, Brave1, the country’s defense innovation platform, said on Thursday that they’ve now become “an integral part of
Patrick Stewart, the legendary actor known to many as Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the Star Trek universe and Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men movie franchise, died on Wednesday at age 86. An Instagram post announcing the news says Stewart passed after a brief battle with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia. When looking back
During Intel’s latest earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips “is outstripping supply.” According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold out. Zinsner said Intel has “seen significant growth in Wildcat Lake. It’s coming exactly at the right time because it’s cost-optimized and we’re seeing a
Trading has resumed on Polymarket’s flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market’s website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of the incident, the company said. Trading was initially paused while
Pope Leo XIV has decried AI as a threat to human dignity, but it’s not just the devoutly faithful who might worry about how AI squares with their beliefs. David Durman, a nontheistic Humanist, recently secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace. “Humanism is a collection of beliefs about the human experience
