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Uber employees have a Dara AI
…Then we talked about Uber’s increasingly large investments in autonomous cars — especially its big investment in Rivian, what kinds of milestones Dara is looking for as the technology evolves, and what…
Transportation
…Legacy automakers, like Ford and GM, are scrambling to become technology-savvy companies, and the tech industry is trying to cash in on the change. New players, like Rivian and Tesla, are…
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
…But something that we’ve always believed is that we should take the latest and greatest technology. We should build the latest and greatest technology and put that into our community’s…
Electric Cars
…Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that…
Data centers are coming for rural America
…Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Oracle, they’re shedding jobs in real time while spending billions on data centers so that other organizations can shed additional jobs through AI. At some point, people need…
Welcome to the personal software revolution
…Andrej Karpathy, an educator and researcher who was on OpenAI’s founding team, had called this new behavior “vibe coding.” Suddenly the vibes were off the charts. The rise of AI…
Speech and Moderation
…The Department of Homeland Security won’t confirm whether the drones are theirs, but ICE has reportedly used license-plate readers and facial recognition technology to surveil activists in Minneapolis. Elizabeth Lopatto…
The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…Google is now introducing two new pricing tiers for AI Ultra to match OpenAI. It now starts at $100 per month, while a $200 per month option includes access to Google’s…
AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot
…Below them is an ocean of accounts flying totally under the radar. Part of the reason these accounts are able to avoid detection is that the technology used to make them…