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A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco’s Chinatown last night around 9PM PT, generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire. The fire department arrived minutes later, according … Read more
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Hi folks, I’m back from CES 2024 and ready to share what I saw and heard! But first, big changes are coming to this weekly transportation … Read more
Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence was in actual fact a bit of a snowflake. Grok, built by Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company, was made available to Premium+ X users last Friday. Musk has complained that OpenAI’s ChatGPT is afflicted with “the … Read more
Photo: AP Photo/Stocktrek Images (AP) Right now, the Mars rover Curiosity is trudging through the dusty terrain of the red planet, where it’s been hard at work for over ten years. Among its many onboard devices, the car-sized robot has a machine on its belly called the “sample-analysis unit.” Curiosity uses its mechanical arm to … Read more
Headlines This WeekAcademic researchers at the University of Chicago are helping artists fight back against AI algorithms that would ingest and monetize their works. Researchers have developed a program called “Nightshade” that could “break” AI programs that ingest unauthorized content that has been laced with the software. What is AI “exposure”? That’s the fun new … Read more
Alphabet subsidiary Waymo is expanding its service area in San Francisco despite protests against robotaxis, while rival Cruise grapples with crashes and other incidents. Waymo riders can now access the service across the vast majority of SF, Waymo announced on Monday on social media site X. The company had limited rides in many of the … Read more
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Waymo introduced a “tour throughout Los Angeles” that enables curious residents the chance to trip in absolutely autonomous automobiles because the Alphabet-owned firm begins to put the groundwork for the launch of a business robotaxi service. Waymo says it would make six multi-week “tour stops” in LA neighborhoods the place folks can hail a self-driving … Read more
Welcome again to The Station, your central hub for all previous, current and future technique of transferring individuals and packages from Level A to Level B. I might be on the heart of the startup universe this subsequent week. The place is that, you say? Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco, after all. I hope to … Read more
San Francisco has formally requested state regulators redo an August listening to that expanded robotaxi permits for Cruise and Waymo, giving each firms permission to widen industrial operations all through the town 24/7. The contentious resolution was met with a lot opposition as metropolis businesses and residents questioned the far-reaching affect of the expansions. The … Read more
Headlines This WeekThe Pentagon desires to beef up its automated drone hordes with some AI. File that beneath Issues That Will Preserve You Up At Night time. OpenAI has admitted that AI textual content detectors usually don’t work. Cool. As fears of AI-fueled political manipulation develop, Google has introduced that any political advertisements hosted on … Read more