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Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can’t take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that “weak sensing” hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance.

He never said the word Tesla. But camera-only is Tesla’s entire bet, and this was a direct shot at it.

“This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy as we inflicted chaos on others.”– Dave Winer

Ivan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch: In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Founded in 2013, Airtable has so far raised over $...

Facing a growing drone threat, the Pentagon is poised to sign a first-of-its-kind contract for “Enduring High Energy Lasers”—and make directed energy weapons an official part of the Army’s kit.

The moment the show ends in Pennsylvania, McCollum is heading straight for the airport. His son's birthday isn't something he's willing to miss — even if it's technically the next day. Continue reading…

Taylor Farms, the company linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak, has used prison laborers paid just $4.75/hour.

Alibaba this week announced the launch of Qwen3.8-Max. The most powerful model in the Qwen series to date, this multimodal

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When Nvidia announced NOOA (Object-Oriented Agents) last week, it signaled a broader shift in agent development: The harness around a

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The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

“Todd Blanche took a major step toward confirmation as attorney general Tuesday after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 on party lines to advance his nomination, likely setting up a final vote within days,” Politico reports. “His nomination, at risk of being withdrawn just last week, now appears to be on a glide path toward […]

Chevy's 721-hp hybrid ups the ante with few compromises, but at a steep cost.

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.

ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate New York that the Department of Homeland Security...

A month ago I wrote about rebuilding Jottit, the tool Aaron Swartz and I made in 2007. It's live now, and so is Tinypost. Both were built alone, in about six months. The shipped apps are the smaller half of the year. The rest went into experiments: memory layers for AI agent...

Tucker Carlson: Trump bombed a girls' school and then he didn't apologize? I feel like smacking him in the face.

Tucker Carlson: It's been obvious to me since Day One that the Iran War is moving toward a nuclear exchange

Tucker Carlson: Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth never apologized for bombing an Iranian girls' school

Bessent: I get sick of hearing about this K-shaped economy

Fox Business (The Cow Guy): Earnings are looking very good at the corporate level. But if you drill down to the lower 60% of incomes, things are getting tight. We've got higher gas prices. We haven't seen groceries come down.