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Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to Japan for first international tests
Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are going to Tokyo, marking the first time that the Alphabet company is deploying vehicles on public roads in a foreign market. Waymo is billing the excursion as a simple “road trip” for collecting data about the nuances of Japanese driving, including left-hand traffic and navigating a dense urban environment. The vehicles will be driven manually for…
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Google Launches Gemini 2.0 with Autonomous Tool Linking
Google is embracing “agentic experiences” in the rollout of Gemini 2.0, its new flagship family of generative AI expected to compete with ChatGPT with OpenAI o1, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon Nova. The tech giant released the first model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, on Dec. 11 for global developers through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Consumers can…
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ChatGPT-4o can be used for autonomous voice-based scams
Researchers have shown that it’s possible to abuse OpenAI’s real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. ChatGPT-4o is OpenAI’s latest AI model that brings new enhancements, such as integrating text, voice, and vision inputs and outputs. Due to these new features, OpenAI integrated various safeguards to detect and…
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Microsoft to launch autonomous AI agents in November – Computerworld
Generative AI (genAI) agents can be seen as the next stage in the evolution of conversational AI assistants such as Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While AI assistants respond directly to a user’s instructions — such as drafting an email or summarizing a document — autonomous AI agents are triggered by events and can perform more complex, multi-step processes on their own. …
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Uber teams up with Cruise to deliver more autonomous rides next year
Uber has signed up another robotaxi company to offer driverless rides inside its app. Starting sometime next year, for “qualifying” rides, Uber will give you the option to take the trip in one of Cruise’s autonomous vehicles. The two companies announced a “multiyear strategic partnership” on Thursday. Cruise halted its robotaxi service in October following an incident where a Cruise…
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