This Robotrucker Says Its AI Now Drives Highways Without Advance Training

Waabi said it completed the first fully autonomous truck run without the system previously practicing the 300-mile drive in simulation or relying on new real-world data.

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Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who…

Agentic AI Could Find Its Perfect Testing Ground In Women’s Sports

Women’s sports could become a proving ground for agentic AI, reshaping fan engagement through real-time data, personalization, trust and human oversight.

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

Don’t Let GenAI’s Glitz Distract From Predictive AI’s Low-Hanging Fruit

Predictive AI remains as economically important as ever, and its emerging role in making genAI reliable further expands its importance.

Google Is Giving Away ‘The Android Of Robotics’

Google is open sourcing software for robots that Sunder Pichai called the Android of robotics. It’s part of a strategy to drive demand for higher-value AI components.

Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent
Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent

Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The bug found by security researcher Patrick Wardle utilized an undocumented Muse setting that enabled potential attackers running local code to redirect transcription processing from Meta’s servers […]

AI Helps Meta-Mindfulness To Oversee Mindfulness And Keep Mindlessness In Check

Meta-mindfulness entails overseeing mindfulness and keeping mindlessness in check. AI can help build meta-mindfulness. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.