Waymo has launched Gemini in Waymo, a beta in-car conversational assistant for riders in its Ojai robotaxi experience. The feature, accessed via a Gemini icon on the cabin screen, allows riders to use…
This week, AI expansion into enterprise software, custom silicon, media creation, autonomous vehicles, and workplace planning collided with security crises, rising costs, and public resistance. Bill G…
Waymo has imported more than 3,000 Chinese-built Ojai electric vehicles, including 2,600 last year, to deploy in U.S. robotaxi fleets, circumventing tariffs and the Connected Vehicle Rule that ban mos…
Martha Stewart has endorsed Waymo's newest autonomous vehicle, the Ojai, in a promotional spot for the Google-owned robotaxi company, which is now offering driverless rides in Los Angeles, San Francis…
Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, Srikanth Thirumalai, published a blog post on Wednesday arguing that cameras alone are insufficient for safe fully autonomous driving, stating 'Cameras are incredible, …
Waymo published a list of 10 AI lessons from over 200 million fully autonomous miles, arguing that turning a driver-assist system into full autonomy is a 'false summit,' a direct rebuke of Tesla's Ful…
Waymo, with more than 200 million miles driven fully autonomously, has identified ten fundamental truths for building AI, including the indispensability of multimodal sensors and the use of HD maps as…
Waymo, after more than 15 years and 200 million driverless miles, says there is no AI shortcut to self-driving, countering rivals like Tesla, Wayve, and Waabi that pursue end-to-end AI systems. Srikan…
Bedrock Robotics Inc. has deployed fully autonomous, retrofitted heavy excavators on active infrastructure projects in Texas and Nevada, marking the company's first operator-free deployments. The San …
Alphabet Inc.'s stock gains have made co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page each $25 billion richer this year, bringing their net worth to about $280 billion each, according to the Bloomberg Billiona…
Lyft's Flexdrive subsidiary will open an 80,000-square-foot vehicle cleaning and maintenance depot in Nashville in October to service Waymo robotaxis, employing about 70 full-time workers, about half …
Waymo and Zoox, owned by Google and Amazon respectively, are advancing driverless taxi services, creating new advertising opportunities inside vehicles, though consumer distrust of Big Tech remains a …
AI vendors are increasingly turning to custom silicon from Cerebras and Marvell for inference workloads, and Waymo is designing its own chips for robotaxis, signaling a shift away from reliance on tra…
Venture capital investment in Physical AI startups, including robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, and industrial automation, surged to $47.4 billion in the first half of 2026, an 80% increase ye…
A new open-source field guide catalogues 47 San Francisco tech slang terms, including 'Claude-pilled,' 'Corgi girls,' and 'Directionally very bad,' with origins traced and submissions open. The guide,…
Waymo's Gemini integration in its Ojai cabin is rolling out as a limited beta, not a universal feature. The company's May 2026 announcement detailed initial riders in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los A…
Alphabet's robotaxi subsidiary Waymo has developed a custom chip for its self-driving taxis, reducing its reliance on Nvidia and AMD. The chip, manufactured by TSMC on a 5-nanometer process, delivers …
Alphabet-owned Waymo doubled its lobbying spending to $1.2 million in the first half of 2024, up from $600,000 a year earlier, as it seeks to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomou…
Waymo fully launched its robotaxi service in Houston, Texas, opening rides to all users via its app after a phased rollout that began in February 2026. The company reported welcoming more than 100,000…
Waymo on August 20 disclosed technical details of its sixth-generation autonomous driving system's compute module, featuring two custom ASICs that deliver more than 1,000 trillion calculations per sec…