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All 170 Tesla robotaxi rides tracked in Austin over two weeks ran unsupervised. Two days earlier, a passenger filmed one driving through bollards.

Uber launched Baidu's Apollo Go in Dubai with no safety driver, one day after its first European AV rides went live in Zagreb with one.

Alibaba's AI spending hit $9.98bn in the June quarter, profit fell 75%, and the cloud unit it pays for turned a segment profit up 133%.

Two senators gave TikTok until 1 September to answer 13 questions about the safety experiment it ran on 15 million US users.

AI can draft proposals and suggest discounts in seconds. But without governed execution, pricing logic, approval thresholds, and margin rules enforced on every quote, faster deals quietly drift off-policy. DealHub AI argues the governance gap now ...

The White House lists 15 critical technologies for national security. Open-weight AI is not one of them, and OSTP still owes an AI plan.

OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing, a system it says catches misuse across interactions while keeping zero data retention intact.

Munich Re has agreed to buy cyber-insurance startup At-Bay for $575mn, less than half its $1.35bn 2021 valuation, in a reset for the insurtech market.

OpenAI will list in 2027, or sooner if growth holds, CFO Sarah Friar told staff, as Anthropic overtakes it on revenue and OpenAI's losses widen.

Comcast is switching on WiFi Motion, a free feature that turns tens of millions of Xfinity routers into camera-free motion sensors, raising privacy concerns.