London’s First Robotaxis Have Arrived — Complete With A Human Ready To Grab The Wheel
Uber and Wayve have put 15 self-driving taxis into London service. The cars can steer themselves, but Britain is not quite ready to remove the emergency human.
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Uber and Wayve have put 15 self-driving taxis into London service. The cars can steer themselves, but Britain is not quite ready to remove the emergency human.
Cursor's new owner has inherited a very expensive trust problem: OpenAI says direct model access could end on 12 November because it cannot trust Musk's companies to follow the contract.
Australia’s official charts will exclude wholly AI-generated tracks from Friday, although humans can still use AI as a supporting tool. The robots have been asked to leave the studio through the gift shop.
A humanoid completed 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at Beijing’s robot games. The machines are now faster than humanity, although stopping safely and completing the laundry remain difficult.
Arizona State University has launched a content-creation degree, proving there is no human activity too online for a university to wrap it in a prospectus and charge tuition.