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Alphabet’s Waymo is now available in 10 cities

Today, Alphabet subsidiary Waymo announced it’s now welcoming public riders to its driverless car service in four additional US cities: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Orlando.

The company said the service will be available first to “select riders” who’ve downloaded the app in those cities, and it will invite new riders on a rolling basis before opening the service to everyone “later this year.”

The latest announcement brings Waymo’s total service area to 10 cities, mostly located in California and across the Sun Belt, and doubles its footprint from a few months ago.

The latest announcement brings Waymo’s total service area to 10 cities, mostly located in California and across the Sun Belt, and doubles its footprint from a few months ago.

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SpaceX seals right to buy coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX said today it is “working closely together” with fast-growing coding startup Cursor “to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.” The post also said SpaceX would have the right to acquire Cursor later this year or make the startup “pay $10 billion for our work together.” The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, previously reported that the companies had agreed to an acquisition.

The news comes as SpaceX prepares for a blockbuster IPO and doubles down on AI, with a growing — if still fully aspirational — focus on space-based data infrastructure and computing.

Last month, when SpaceX hired two senior leaders from Cursor, CEO Elon Musk noted that xAI, which SpaceX acquired earlier this year, “was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up.”

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OpenAI releases new image generation model with complex capabilities

ChatGPT Images 2.0 marks a big leap forward in image generation as OpenAI seeks to distinguish its features from Anthropic’s Claude.

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