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The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona in the next few weeks.

Lessons from building a fast, reliable scientific agent with local open-weight models, vLLM, and long-context infrastructure The post The Infrastructure Behind Making Local LLM Agents Actually Useful appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking […] The post Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol appeared first on AI News.

SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

New renders offer a closer look at Apple’s planned AI overhaul for iOS 27, including a redesigned Siri experience powered and standalone Siri app.

Most GTM teams deploy AI where it's most visible. The question worth asking first: is that actually where it's most ready?

At least two owners have lost control of their vehicles after a critical suspension component broke. In both cases, the vehicles had been previously serviced.

On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?

Todd Spangler / Variety: Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed  —  Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results.

A new crop of AI labs are focused on recursive self-improvement — but the goal is proving elusive.

Enterprise AI is entering a different phase now, one where enterprises are no longer evaluating whether AI is exciting. They are evaluating whether it is safe to deploy broadly.

The update signals YouTube's ongoing efforts to compete with other platforms for podcast audiences.

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how developers on Replit can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol  —  Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit.  The two companies are also exploring …

Dan Primack / Axios: Source: Groq is raising up to $650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team leave  —  Groq is raising up to $650 million from existing investors, after the AI chipmaker previously signed a $20 billion licensing deal …

After overwhelming demand from founders around the world, TechCrunch has extended the Startup Battlefield 200 application deadline to June 8. Nominate a standout startup or apply yours today.

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