Waymo is rolling out a software update after its robotaxis clogged intersections during a major San Francisco blackout. The vehicles, which should treat dead traffic lights as four-way stops, instead flooded the remote assistance team with requests for help. This incident is another unplanned stress
Apple is pausing its planned changes for the Texas App Store after a federal judge blocked the state’s new age verification law. The company had objected to the law on privacy grounds, arguing it forced unnecessary data collection.
A new breakdown shows Apple’s Detroit Developer Academy costs about $20,000 per student, with taxpayers footing a big part of the bill. Job placement sits around 71%, raising questions about the program’s value and real-world impact.
A Fast Company article argues that bad AI tools are everywhere, and they’re poisoning the well for the real thing. Business leaders aren’t resisting innovation—they’re rejecting the disappointing products falsely labeled as AI.
Moving to the cloud isn’t just a lift-and-shift operation; it’s a major security event. A new article warns that failing to prioritize ransomware protection during this chaotic phase can lead to catastrophic data loss and downtime. The time to plan your defense is before you migrate a single byte.
A new analysis from PCWorld pits Windows laptops with NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 5070 GPUs against Apple’s latest MacBook Pros. The findings show significant performance advantages for the RTX machines in key creative and AI tasks, making a potential platform switch worth considering for power us
According to a year of executive interviews by PYMNTS, the biggest shift in 2025 was AI becoming an invisible “governing layer” for commerce. The real action was in infrastructure: payments networks repositioning, loyalty becoming a real-time currency, and regulation evolving from a brake to a stabi
Instacart has shut down an AI tool that was running algorithmic price experiments on shoppers. The system resulted in different customers paying different prices for identical items from the same store.
AI-powered fleet management company Motive has publicly filed for an IPO. The filing reveals growing revenue but also deepening losses and a major patent infringement lawsuit from competitor Samsara.
Google is deploying carbon capture technology at a power plant to tackle emissions from its energy-hungry data centers. The system aims to capture 90% of CO2 and store it underground. This move highlights the growing tension between AI advancement and climate goals.
