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Waymo co-chief executive Tekedra Mawakana says partnering with Uber was “a little bit of a crapshoot” for riders. On the same day, Uber told investors that robotaxis earn more on its platform than on their makers’ own apps. Mawakana spoke to Emily Chang on Bloomberg’s The Circuit.
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Barcelona-based Titan OS, which makes an operating system for smart TVs, has raised $46M (about €40M). Existing investors Highland Europe and Mangrove Capital Partners put in equity. Funds and accounts managed by BlackRock added a credit facility, the company announced on Wednesday.
A Chinese regulator’s inquiry led OPay to halt its $304M New York listing hours after pricing it, Bloomberg reported. The Nigeria-focused payments company has no operations or revenue in China, according to the report.
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
IonQ now expects revenue of $505M to $515M this year. The quantum computing company raised the outlook on Thursday as third-quarter revenue more than quadrupled to $173.8M. Its earlier forecast was $450M to $460M, and it had revenue of $130M in 2025, Bloomberg reported.
AI is finally helping adopters boost revenue, but revenue growth still falls short of productivity and other metrics.
Apple keeps a hidden list of around 100,000 words and phrases that its iPhone keyboard will not suggest to users, according to an independent researcher. The list includes political expressions such as “Dictator Trump” and “Sleepy Joe”, Reuters reported today.
Sam Altman says people took his remark about memory in home computers out of context. The OpenAI chief executive made the point on X on Wednesday. Hours earlier, he had renamed himself “Ram Altman” on the platform.
The European Commission has preliminarily found that TikTok breaks EU online safety rules by repeatedly recommending similar videos, potentially trapping users in harmful content loops. The findings, published on Friday, follow a long-running investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The UK government now expects AI to add £55bn to £140bn to the economy by 2030. Its central estimate is £120bn. Its AI Opportunities Action Plan put the gain at £400bn, and AI minister Kanishka Narayan has now confirmed that Google commissioned the report behind that number.
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