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Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

Notes From the Foothills of the Singularity

Google I/O wasn't flashy, but it might be the most important yet

Perplexity Is Open-Sourcing Bumblebee

Today we are open-sourcing one of the internal tools we use to protect the developer systems behind Perplexity, Comet, and Computer.

Why Trump's AI executive order was pulled

Any further delay of the order means more time for infighting and disagreements.

ChatGPT for PowerPoint generates presentations with prompts.

The new ChatGPT integration for Microsoft PowerPoint, like an earlier add-on for Excel and Google Sheets, adds a sidebar where users can create or edit presentations using chatbot prompts along with documents, images, and other source material.

Spotify bets on taste as differentiator in the AI era

It also announced a landmark deal with Universal Music Group to create a new tool that allows fans to create covers and remixes.

As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI

SpaceX IPO filing pitches orbital data centers as Grok lags rival AI services.

ClickUp cuts 22% of staff, offers $1M salaries in AI restructuring

ClickUp cut 22 per cent of its workforce and introduced $1 million salary bands for remaining staff. CEO Zeb Evans says the company is restructuring around a “100x org” model where AI agents outnumber employees 3:1.

GitLab 19.0 targets the gap between writing code and shipping it

GitLab 19.0 extends agentic AI across the full software lifecycle with its Duo Agent Platform, adds SBOM-based dependency scanning, and supports Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini models. The release targets the gap between faster code generation and slower delivery pipelines.

Google's AI search overhaul is bad news for the open web

Google’s I/O 2026 overhaul turns Search into an AI answer engine that keeps users on the results page. Zero-click searches now account for 60 per cent of queries, and publisher traffic is collapsing as a result.

Trump delayed signing AI executive order because he “didn’t like certain aspects of it.”

As Politico reports, Trump postponed signing an executive order on government oversight and access to AI at the last minute on Thursday, saying it “could have been a blocker” for the jobs and “tremendous good” he claims AI is creating. Trump also said China was a factor:

Anthropic is in talks to use Microsoft’s AI chips too.

Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy