Alphabet-owned Waymo in talks to raise $15 billion in funding
Waymo co-CEOs (L-R): Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov Waymo Self-driving car company Waymo is in talks to raise $15 billion in funding in the new year. The robotaxi company plans to raise billions from Alphabet, its parent company, as well as outside investors at a valuation as high as $110 billion, according to a person […]
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Trump signs executive order for single national AI regulation standard, limiting power of states
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs an executive order on AI in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. Dec. 11, 2025. Al Drago | Reuters President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday issuing a single regulation framework for artificial intelligence, undermining the power of individual states. […]
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Judge finalizes remedies in Google antitrust case
The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 17, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters A U.S. judge on Friday finalized his decision for the consequences Google will face for its search monopoly ruling, adding new details to the decided remedies. Last year, Google was […]
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Waymo expanding to Baltimore, Pittsburgh and St. Louis with manual test drives
Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Uber Technologies Inc. Waymo on Wednesday said humans will begin test driving the Alphabet-owned company’s robotaxi vehicles in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The three cities represent the latest additions to Waymo’s quickly growing list of cities where the Google sister company is […]
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How Google put together the pieces for its AI comeback
Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images When ChatGPT launched in 2022, Google was caught flatfooted, but the launch of Gemini 3 and the Ironwood AI chip this month has experts raving about Alphabet’s AI comeback. Google kicked off November by unveiling Ironwood, the seventh generation of its tensor processing units, or TPUs, that […]
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Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
Amin Vahdat, VP of Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI at Google, holds up TPU Version 4 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on July 23, 2024. Marc Ganley Google ‘s AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its serving capacity every six months in order to meet demand for […]
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Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
Amin Vahdat, VP of Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI at Google, holds up TPU Version 4 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on July 23, 2024. Marc Ganley Google ‘s AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its compute capacity every six months in order to meet demand for […]
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Waymo to begin manual drives in Minneapolis, Tampa and New Orleans, aims to open service in 2026
Waymo driverless vehicles charge at a Waymo charging station in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 30, 2025. Daniel Cole | Reuters Alphabet’s Waymo on Thursday announced that it will soon begin manually driving its robotaxi vehicles in Minneapolis, Tampa and New Orleans. The Google sister company will start operating test drives in that trio of […]
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Waymo says it will launch in more Texas and Florida cities in 2026
A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along a street on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Waymo on Tuesday said it will bring its robotaxi service to new cities in Texas and Florida in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company said it plans to start operating its vehicles with no […]
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Google announces Gemini 3 as battle with OpenAI intensifies
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google is debuting its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, as the search giant races to keep pace with ChatGPT creator OpenAI. The new AI model will allow users to get better answers to more complex questions, “so you get what you need with less prompting,” Alphabet CEO […]
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