Alphabet's Waymo announced plans to expand its driverless robotaxi service to Denver, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Tampa this year, initially serving only Alphabet employees before opening to the public.…
Sara Wilczynska left Google in 2022, traveled for a year, and turned an unplanned watercolor practice in Thailand into Swil Arts, a San Diego illustration studio selling prints, goods, and custom comm…
California voters, even in deep blue areas, are increasingly rejecting tax increases as the state faces high living costs and economic anxiety. A May poll found 55% prefer lower taxes and fewer servic…
Altus Schools in San Diego spent $500,000 on two AI-powered humanoid robots named Ameca for a pilot program exploring AI in education. Critics argue there is no evidence these tools are effective or s…
Researchers introduced DySECT, a dynamic self-evolving extraction system that uses a closed-loop cycle where an LLM extracts triples to populate a knowledge base, which then improves the LLM via promp…
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott pledged no layoffs in April, but the company cut 63 jobs in San Diego and dozens more across California on Wednesday. The layoffs target senior roles and positions expose…
A software developer discovered that large language models can autonomously locate and retrieve real-world datasets from obscure government and scientific sources, eliminating the need for users to up…
A software developer discovered that large language models possess detailed knowledge of obscure, primary-source data URLs on the web, including NOAA buoy water temperature data, Socrata 311 civic end…
A shooting attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego was thwarted by three men—guard Amin Abdullah, store manager Mansour Kaziha, and community member Nadir Awad—who sacrificed their lives to protect …
Weekly roundup of the author's reading, covering three main topics: the challenges of using formal languages like Lean for AI-driven mathematical proofs, the history of the GLP-1 drug class and the bi…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite is a new system-on-chip for Windows on ARM, featuring 18 CPU cores (12 "Prime" and 6 "Performance") with Prime cores clocking up to 5.0 GHz. The Oryon Gen 3 cores includ…