President Trump has threatened to slap additional tariffs on Mexico to pressure the country into beefing up drug raids and cartel arrests.
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expects the company to hit 1M+ paid weekly robotaxi rides in the US by the end of 2026, up from ~400K per week in six cities now (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expects the company to hit 1M+ paid weekly robotaxi rides in the US by the end of 2026, up from ~400K per week in six cities now — Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving un…
Storm batters France, killing lorry driver and leaving 850,000 homes without power
The storm arrived late on Wednesday evening and swept across western France before moving southeast towards the Mediterranean coast and Corsica.
Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
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Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code — – Amazon internally promotes Kiro over thi…
Six Republicans join Democrats in vote to block Donald Trump’s Canada tariffs – US politics live
President warned prior to the vote that any Republican who voted against tariffs would ‘suffer the consequences’ Newly released evidence has shown that Gregory Bovino, a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportatio…
Lufthansa strike: Thousands of flights affected
Large parts of Lufthansa’s flight operations have been at a standstill with pilots and cabin crew walking off the job
UN begins clearing massive wartime waste dump in Gaza City
The UN Development Programme has begun clearing a massive wartime waste dump in Gaza City.
xAI all-hands: Nikita Bier says X hit $1B in ARR from selling $3 to $40 per month subscriptions, but offered no details on ad revenue or other xAI financials (Theo Wayt/The Information)
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xAI all-hands: Nikita Bier says X hit $1B in ARR from selling $3 to $40 per month subscriptions, but offered no details on ad revenue or other xAI financials — X recently hit $1 billion in annualized recu…
HPE Aruba Flaw Exposes Networking Devices to Privilege Escalation and DoS Attacks
HPE Aruba Networking has issued a critical security advisory addressing multiple vulnerabilities in its Private 5G Core Platform that could allow attackers to create unauthorized administrative accounts, disrupt services, and access sensitive system in…
Africa must boycott the 2026 World Cup
Africa faces a historic sporting and moral choice over the US-hosted tournament.