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Uber has begun offering Baidu’s driverless Apollo Go vehicles through its app in Dubai. Riders booking UberX or Uber Comfort may be matched with an autonomous vehicle, while a dedicated Autonomous option increases the chance of requesting one.
The article reports that Anthropic and Amazon have reportedly purchased large volumes of physical books, scanned them, and destroyed the originals to reduce copyright risk in AI training. It argues that this strategy is tied to differences in US and Chinese copyright law, while also raising concerns about the irreversible loss of cultural artifacts.
London’s centuries-old black-cab industry is confronting potential competition from autonomous taxis, with Waymo, Wayve, and Baidu testing vehicles in the city. Drivers and unions argue that local knowledge, judgment, and human interaction remain difficult for autonomous systems to replicate.
An AI-assisted review of 291 Chinese city planning documents found that low-altitude economy appears in 257 cities’ plans for the next five years. Compared with the previous planning cycle, cities replaced nearly half of their listed industry tracks while increasingly adopting numeric portfolio labels.
Wired reported that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram displayed ads for an AI pornography-generation tool. One ad featured a deepfake pornographic video resembling a prominent American female politician, and Meta removed the ads after being questioned.
Europe’s data centre capacity is projected to reach 13 gigawatts by the end of 2026, up roughly 20% year over year. In the second quarter, 63% of approximately 700 megawatts of new capacity went outside Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin.
AI companies are buying large volumes of second-hand books, cutting off their spines, scanning them, and destroying the physical copies. The article argues that this is not equivalent to burning books because the information is preserved digitally, while warning that rare and culturally valuable editions may still be harmed.
NASA and startup Katalyst have abandoned plans to use robotics to rescue the Swift gamma-ray space telescope. Persistent attitude-control problems mean the nearly 22-year-old, $500 million observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up later this year.
Google’s new Pixel 11 includes AI features that can order groceries, book restaurant tables, and take photos for users. The article questions whether consumers actually want this level of agent-like assistance.
A beginner asks for free resources, tutorials, books, and existing Jupyter notebooks for applying machine learning to astronomy. Potential use cases include analyzing JWST or TESS data to identify black-hole or exoplanet signatures and building reproducible environments with Git, Python libraries, and Docker.