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Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout, and says most trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over — Alphabet-owned Waymo has resumed its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after a temporary pause during blackouts …
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Bluesky: @prietschka, @lilmommaprods, @tzed250, @lorak, @carlquintanilla, @bethosborne, @allochthonous, @mims, and @clarajeffery. Mastodon: @straphanger@urbanists.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/SelfDrivingCars, and Slashdot
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency — The incident this July and the subsequent fallout — which has not been reported before — have angered career staff …
More: NewsMax.com and Fox News
Bluesky: @seniormcgeezer, @carlfruge, @multiversewanderer, @theycallmegary, @sodrock, @schnorkles, and @quinnypig.com
Mastodon: @msbellows@c.im, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @AAKL@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/technology, r/law, r/cybersecurity, r/pwnhub, and r/politics
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's share of revenue after the cost of running AI models for paying users has jumped to ~70% in October, up from ~52% at the end of 2024 — As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business.| Mitchell Peters / Billboard: |
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files — The breach allegedly includes 86 million audio files.
More: Anna's Blog, Music Ally, and Android Authority
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Forums: Hacker News, r/selfhosted, r/Piracy, r/DataHoarder, and Lobsters
| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
A look at stablecoin-powered neobanks like Rizon and Dakota that are offering dollar-denominated digital banking services to customers worldwide — Three years ago Mustafa Ismael launched Karcsham Co., a Kenya-based company that resells Starlink devices and manages subscriptions for thousands … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more — When iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Sunday, it marked the end of an era for one of America's most beloved robotics companies.| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms — A day before Instagram's new integration for Amazon Fire smart TVs was set to roll out, Adam Mosseri, who runs the platform for Meta … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them — I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.
More: Moneycontrol, BGR, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @ering, @shiraovide, @harrymccracken.com, and @kashhill
| Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 — Uber Technologies Inc. said it's teaming up with Baidu Inc. to trial driverless taxis in the UK, following the lead of American self-driving … | Jessica Mathews / Fortune: |
A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 — The X-BAT will be flown using Shield AI's autonomous software, Hivemind.COURTESLY OF SHIELD AI — There are plenty … | Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
A group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt — A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus has agreed to acquire Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc … | Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Echo, which uses AI agents to build Docker images that eliminate vulnerabilities at the source, raised a $35M Series A, bringing its total funding to $50M — Echo today announced raising $35 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $50 million.
More: VentureBeat and CTech
| Reuters: |
Sources detail SoftBank's efforts to raise funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year — SoftBank Group (9984.T) is racing to close a $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes …
More: Benzinga and Tech in Asia
| Politico: |
Sources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution — President Donald Trump's aggressive move to block states from regulating artificial intelligence is splitting the tech lobby …
More: Gizmodo, Vox, and Business Insider
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