​Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company taking on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business.  

​AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call “extensibility.”  

​While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.  

​OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.  

​The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.  

​AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.  

​Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.  

​Finnish unicorn IQM plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) valuing the company at approximately $1.8 billion — joining the growing cohort of quantum computing companies listed on U.S. stock markets.   

​Chinese hackers allegedly broke into the network of an Ivanti subsidiary in 2021. The hackers exploited a backdoor in its VPN product, which allowed the hackers to gain access to 119 other unnamed organizations.  

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