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Elon Musk envisions humanoid robots everywhere. China may be the first to make it a reality
An engineer debugs robots at the factory of AgiBot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, on December 8, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Tang Yanjun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) Tang Yanjun | China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has put humanoid robots in the […]
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Payment giants are preparing for a world where AI agents book flights and shop for you
Major payment and tech companies are racing to build the infrastructure for what they see as the next evolution of global commerce: artificial intelligence agents that can perform searches, compare prices, and make purchases on behalf of consumers. The trend is referred to as “agentic commerce,” and reflects consumers’ growing reliance on chatbots for everyday […]
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Amazon faces ‘leader’s dilemma’ — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Thos Robinson | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy could see how dramatically artificial intelligence was altering e-commerce. In June, he told employees that AI agents will start to infiltrate aspects of everyday life, “from shopping to travel to daily chores and tasks.” Four months later, Jassy said on an earnings call that Amazon expects to partner with third-party agents, and has […]
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Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages
A Waymo car is halted on the road amid a power outage in San Francisco, California, U.S., December 20, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.d Reuters Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause its driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company said it’s updating its fleet so […]
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Instacart ends AI-driven pricing tests that drove up costs for some shoppers
FILE PHOTO: Instacart shopper, Loralyn Geggatt makes a delivery to a customer’s home in Falmouth, MA on April 7, 2020. David L. Ryan | Boston Globe | Getty Images Instacart said Monday it will cease the use of artificial intelligence-driven pricing tests on its grocery delivery platform after the practice was scrutinized in a wide-ranging […]
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Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images Josh Woodward may not be a household name in Silicon Valley. But inside Google, everybody knows about him. The 42-year-old Oklahoma native, who started at […]
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Former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick leaves Meta board after eight-month stint
Dina Powell McCormick, who was a member of President Donald Trump’s first administration, has resigned from Meta’s board of directors. Powell McCormick, who previously spent 16 years working at Goldman Sachs, notified Meta of her resignation on Friday, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing did not disclose why McCormick was stepping down from […]
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Google’s boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images With the AI talent wars heating up between companies like OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic, one way Google has been competing is by aggressively rehiring […]
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Palo Alto Networks announces multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud
Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement, the companies announced on Friday. The companies said the deal is an expansion of their existing strategic partnership and will deepen their engineering collaboration. Palo Alto Networks is now using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power […]
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Instacart to pay $60 million to settle FTC claims it deceived customers
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Instacart will pay $60 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it misled users with false advertising and deployed “unlawful subscription enrollment” practices. The federal agency alleged that Instacart used deceptive tactics in its subscription sign-up and “satisfaction guarantee” advertising that caused […]
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