Waymo announces plans to expand to Boston and Sacramento

Today Waymo, a subsidiary of Google, announced plans to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to Boston and Sacramento. The service is currently available to the public in six US cities, including Miami, which launched last month.

Waymo has completed 20 million fully autonomous trips and now provides about 400,000 driverless rides per week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on Wednesday’s earnings call. He added that Waymo will also expand to additional cities in the US, as well as to the UK and Japan.

Boston would be Waymo’s first market in New England, though regulatory hurdles remain. “Before offering fully autonomous rides to Bostonians, we’ll first need the state to legalize fully autonomous vehicles,” the company said.

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The Information reports that within Google DeepMind, a “strike team” has been assembled to make a serious push to improve Gemini’s coding capabilities. According to the report, leaders within Google, including cofounder Sergey Brin, are sounding the alarm after determining that Anthropic’s Claude has superior coding skills. The new team’s goal is to create a AI system that can improve itself.

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