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Waymo will launch robotaxis in Singapore in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market

The vehicles will arrive well before then, and there will be a year of preparation and testing. According to the company, the rollout will happen in three stages. First, all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will arrive in…

Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production

“When an agent fails, it does the wrong thing convincingly at scale until someone happens to notice.” Raindrop has raised a Series A led by CRV. That takes total funding to $50m, the San Francisco company said on 17…

Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up

In changes announced after Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister in July, the government abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) – created by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak…

Dreamforce 2026 and the dangers of AI

And the topic was a key talking point at Salesforce's annual event, Dreamforce. Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff was joined on stage by Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, with both discussing the current…

Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong

“The harder problem is making AI useful for the businesses that power the rest of the economy, where most humans work and receive value.” Tang said that in a statement confirming that Beacon Software has bought his…

Waymo is expanding to Singapore

Waymo has announced that it's coming to Singapore , thereby expanding its presence in Asia and in regions outside of the US as a whole. Over the coming months, its first Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will be arriving on the…

Paris prosecutors open criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women

The issue involves a trend on social media in which men who wear glasses with cameras go up to women in public, film them without their permission, and then upload the videos online. The office has not provided any…

Houthi rebel offensive fuels fears of escalation in the Middle East and Europe

Events in Yemen now threaten to escalate the war between the US, Israel and Iran into a regional conflagration. Houthi rebels have captured strategically important positions on the Red Sea coast that will give them the…

AI Cloud Firm Nebius Hikes GPU, CPU Prices

The move came after competitor CoreWeave said earlier in the day that it is signing new contracts at higher prices. Companies such as Nebius, CoreWeave and Australia’s IREN specialise in cloud capacity for the AI…

Springshot says Google’s $10m Spirit deal could include its trade secrets

Google won the bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid for a vast archive. It includes roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages and collaboration records, plus spreadsheets, code and operational…