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Transportation
Uber has launched its first international robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in partnership with Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide. This initiative allows customers to book self-driving cars through the Uber app at standard UberX and Uber Comfort rates. Initially, these vehicles will have safety drivers onboard, with
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In 2020, Richard Socher made a bold move. Leaving behind his role at Salesforce, he set out to challenge Google, the undisputed king of search engines. While Google dominated the search market, Socher believed its flagship product had become inefficient—bogged down by SEO clutter, invasive ads, and overly simplistic
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Tencent Holdings, a prominent player in video gaming and social media, has entered the competitive field of AI-driven video generation with its latest innovation, HunyuanVideo. Powered by Tencent’s Hunyuan AI foundation model, this text-to-video generator is now offered for free to both businesses and individual users, the company revealed
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
OpenAI has introduced a new subscription tier, ChatGPT Pro, designed for engineers and researchers tackling complex problems. Priced at $200 per month, the Pro plan offers unlimited access to OpenAI’s advanced models, including the recently unveiled GPT-4o and the cutting-edge o1 reasoning model. What ChatGPT Pro Brings ChatGPT Pro
Supply Chain
Apple Inc. plans to invest $1 billion in a manufacturing plant in Indonesia to produce components for smartphones and other products. This decision follows Indonesia's ban on iPhone 16 sales in October due to non-compliance with local content regulations, which require at least 40% of parts in domestically
Transportation
After establishing its autonomous vehicle services in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car subsidiary, has revealed its next stop: Miami. The company plans to deploy its fleet of driverless Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicles in Florida starting in early 2025, with rides becoming broadly accessible via the
Semiconductors
Chipmaker Marvell Technology (MRVL) jumped 23.2% following its fiscal Q3 2025 earnings report, driven by robust AI chip demand and better-than-expected guidance for the next quarter. CEO Matt Murphy highlighted the company’s "substantial momentum," projecting continued growth into fiscal 2026. Key Financial Highlights * Revenue: $1.52
Cloud Computing
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, announced plans to build its largest artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana, marking a $10 billion investment. The facility is expected to transform Richland Parish, a rural area with high poverty rates, creating 500 permanent jobs and 5,000 construction jobs. The project includes
Media
Perplexity, an AI-driven search engine, is growing its publisher program by partnering with major news outlets, including the LA Times, Adweek, Mexico News Daily, and several others. The program allows publishers to share ad revenue and track content performance using provided metrics, provided they remain in the program. New Partners
Semiconductors
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a groundbreaking photonic processor that utilizes light for neural network computations, potentially revolutionizing artificial intelligence (AI) processing by significantly enhancing speed and energy efficiency. Traditional electronic processors face limitations in speed and energy consumption due to the inherent properties of
Military & Defense
OpenAI has entered into a partnership with defense technology company Anduril Industries to integrate its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into Anduril's counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS). This collaboration aims to enhance the detection, assessment, and real-time response to aerial threats, marking a significant shift in OpenAI's engagement
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AWS has announced a major enhancement to its SageMaker platform at the annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. SageMaker, AWS’s fully managed platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) and generative AI models, is now integrating a curated set of third-party AI applications. This move aims