​What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it’s because of “the singularity” but it’s really for a far more real and powerful reason.  

​The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company’s push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.  

​A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.  

​SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.  

​After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have played in his career.  

​AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by ICONIQ after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.  

​The actress’ firm Kinship Ventures is an investor in the company.  

​Have we tried turning off society and turning it back on again?  

​As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.  

​The launch of the new study features marks Google’s latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.