Atoms develops robotaxi technology after Pronto acquisition
Atoms, the company founded by Travis Kalanick, is developing robotaxi technology, hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto, and has received a $100 million investment from Uber, according to sources cited by th...
Nigeria opens antitrust probe into Uber's abrupt exit
Nigeria's antitrust commission said it is probing Uber Technologies' abrupt exit from the country after the ride-hailing platform shut down last week without prior notice to users. The supplied summary does not state why Uber exit...
ARC Prize reports wide GPT-6 Astra score gap across test harnesses
ARC Prize published results showing GPT-6 Astra scored 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 under its standard harness and 99.9% using OpenAI's Provider Adapter. The benchmark organization said the adapter preserves opaque reasoning state between r...
Oklahoma condemns bitcoin data center after water leak
El Reno, Oklahoma, condemned an Athlon Blockchain LLC-owned bitcoin mining data center after a leak of 3 million gallons of water closed schools, businesses, and city and county offices last week, according to KOCO-TV as reported ...
Report describes AI-assisted ransomware intrusion completed in under 10 hours
The Tech Edvocate, citing Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42, reports that a human ransomware operator used AI models and agentic frameworks in an intrusion that compromised an enterprise network in under 10 hours. The report says the ag...
AI reduces Kenya's overseas essay-writing gig work, report says
The New York Times reports that AI has sharply reduced work in Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid more than 40,000 people in Nairobi to complete assignments for overseas students. The report describes fewer rou...
