Summary Waymo has been granted the first permit by the New York City Department of Transportation to begin testing autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. The initial rollout will…
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Making Cash Off ‘AI Slop’: the Surreal Video Business Taking Over the Web Summary The Washington Post reports on the rise of low-effort, high-volume “AI slop” videos: cheaply produced, AI-generated…
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Join Our Next Livestream: Back to School in the Age of AI Summary WIRED is hosting a subscriber-only livestream on Thursday 28 August at 1 pm ET / 10 am…
Net zero needs AI — five actions to realise its promise Summary Without AI, reaching net zero by 2050 is increasingly unlikely. Amy Luers argues that artificial-intelligence technologies can close…
IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums Summary IBM and NASA — joined by eight other research centres — have released Surya, an open-source AI foundation model…
Microsoft lets devs tell Copilot to STFU in Visual Studio Summary Microsoft’s August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.14.13) gives developers new controls to reduce Copilot’s intrusiveness. The…
Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links Summary Firefox 142 introduces link previews with optional on-device AI-generated key points, new developer support for local LLMs via…
Summary Waymo has been granted New York City’s first permit to test autonomous vehicles, marking the company’s return to NYC after a four-year absence — but it’s very much a…
