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Alphabet's Waymo said Tuesday it will bring its robotaxis to Munich, its first continental European city, with commercial rides targeted for the end of 2027 pending regulatory approval. The company set up a German entity months ago and is now working with Germany's Federal Motor Transport
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Anthropic just turned Claude's memory into one system shared between chat and its Cowork agent — with new privacy dials to match. Plus: Waymo picks Munich for its first EU robotaxi beachhead. Anthropic has unified the memory behind Claude chat and Claude Cowork, so what the assistant learns about
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Nvidia just refreshed the little computer that powers a huge slice of the world's robots — and the efficiency numbers are the real story. Nvidia announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new entry-level robotics computer that doubles the inference performance of its predecessor while drawing 40% less
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Perplexity and Nvidia are making the most aggressive push yet to pull AI agents off the cloud: a desktop app where the model, your files, and the work itself never have to leave the machine — and the token meter never moves. Perplexity launched Portable Computer on Monday, a version of
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Two hardware stories today, both about who sets the price of running AI: OpenAI's first custom inference chip just posted benchmark numbers ahead of Nvidia's best, and one of autonomous trucking's quietest operators just bankrolled its expansion. OpenAI's custom Jalapeño chip delivered
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No event, no keynote — just a surprise hardware drop with one very clear audience: people who run AI models on their desks. Apple refreshed its entire desktop lineup around local AI inference today, debuting the M6 — its first 2nm chip — in a new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra, its
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Enterprises can finally answer a question they've been too embarrassed to ask aloud: exactly what did that AI token bill buy? Tempo, the Atlassian ecosystem's planning-and-portfolio software maker, launched Workforce Intelligence on Tuesday, an app that connects AI usage and its cost to the
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Today's board has a single quiet fingerprint: Andrej Karpathy's recurring complaints about how coding agents misbehave have been turned into an instructions file people actually install, and his "LLM Wiki" idea now underpins a self-organizing note system. Around them sit the rest of
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Knowledge distillation is a way of training a small "student" AI model to imitate a big "teacher" model — so the student picks up much of the teacher's skill while being far smaller, faster, and cheaper to run. If you have read tech news lately,
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OpenAI is pulling the plug on the unlimited era for its coding agent — and the backlash started within minutes. OpenAI is bringing back the five-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work on Plus accounts, ending weeks of effectively uncapped access that had made the $20 plan the standout
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Microsoft Research dropped the first stable release of Agent Lightning, an open-source toolkit that applies reinforcement learning to other AI agents — no code changes required. The project ran for over a year as a research prototype before this v1.0 milestone; it's now pinned under an MIT
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OpenAI has been pushing price-performance harder than any headline about its models suggests, and tonight's update is the clearest signal yet. The GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — is now live in Kiro, OpenAI's software-development agent, in a partnership with AWS aimed