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Waymo is expanding its testing operations to Philadelphia and New York City, signaling potential future commercial expansion into the Northeastern region.
The company is conducting "road trips" to map and test its autonomous driving system in complex urban environments, including downtown Philadelphia and Manhattan.
Waymo is seeking approval to test its AVs in New York City with a human behind the wheel, but current regulations restrict fully driverless deployments.
These road trips follow similar initiatives in other cities and are part of Waymo's broader strategy to improve its AI driver's performance and expand its robotaxi services.
Waymo currently offers commercial robotaxi services in several major cities and plans to launch in Miami and Washington D.C. in the near future.
Epic Games has settled its antitrust case against Samsung, which accused Samsung of working with Google to block rival app stores on Samsung phones. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney expressed gratitude that Samsung will address Epic's concerns.
The lawsuit focused on Samsung's "Auto Blocker" feature, which blocked downloads outside of the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store. Epic had previously won an antitrust case against Google in 2023 regarding app store practices.
The settlement follows Epic's launch of its own mobile app store for games and third-party titles.
Drive Capital, a Columbus, Ohio-based venture capital firm, has experienced a significant turnaround after an internal split several years ago. Co-founder Chris Olsen highlights the firm's contrarian strategy of focusing on companies outside Silicon Valley, leading to successful exits and a return of $500 million to investors in a single week. Drive's portfolio includes successes like Duolingo and Vast Data, alongside failures like Olive AI. The firm differentiates itself by investing in companies applying technology to traditional industries and maintaining a higher ownership stake compared to Silicon Valley firms. Olsen emphasizes the higher bar for companies outside Silicon Valley, noting that Drive seeks ventures with strong business fundamentals. The recent announcement of Erebor, a crypto-focused bank, establishing headquarters in Columbus further validates Drive's thesis about the city as a legitimate tech hub.
Some ChatGPT Plus subscribers are reporting a new feature called 'Study Together.' This mode aims to enhance ChatGPT's educational capabilities by prompting users with questions rather than providing direct answers. It encourages active learning and may discourage academic dishonesty. The official release and potential for group study modes are yet to be confirmed by OpenAI.
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CoreWeave has announced a $9 billion all-stock deal to acquire Core Scientific, a data center infrastructure provider. This acquisition will provide CoreWeave with over a gigawatt of data center capacity, sufficient to power over 850,000 homes. The increased capacity will be used to support AI training and inference workloads. Core Scientific, which previously offered Bitcoin mining services, will now have its GPUs run and train generative AI models. This move reflects the growing demand for data center capacity driven by AI companies, as seen with OpenAI's recent deal with Oracle for additional data center power.