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🤖 Tesla's humanoid robot has a new competitor
🚖 Waymo now giving 100,000 weekly robotaxi rides
💼 Fortune 500 companies are getting increasingly worried about AI
⚖️ Anthropic gets sued on allegations of ‘large-scale theft’
🌩️ Nvidia's new AI predicts thunderstorms with kilometer-scale precision
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Tesla's humanoid robot has a new competitorLINK
Unitree Robotics has launched the production version of its G1 humanoid robot, priced at $16,000, just three months after its initial announcement.
The G1 is 90% cheaper than Unitree's previous humanoid model, the H1, offering advanced features such as 23 degrees of freedom and a 3D vision system for real-time navigation.
While the G1 is not ready for consumer use, it is envisioned as an affordable platform for research and development, likely appealing to institutions and businesses exploring robotic automation.
🚖 Waymo now giving 100,000 weekly robotaxi ridesLINK
Waymo disclosed it is now giving more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, doubling its previously stated figures.
This milestone was shared by Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana and reflects a significant increase from the over 50,000 weekly rides reported by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai earlier this year.
Waymo's fleet consists of hundreds of fully autonomous Jaguar I-Pace vehicles, with 778 robotaxis deployed in California, and it has recently expanded its service to operate 24/7 in San Francisco and parts of Los Angeles.
💼 Fortune 500 companies are getting increasingly worried about AILINK
Fortune 500 companies reporting AI as a risk factor saw a surge of 473.5% in the past year, according to a report by Arize AI, with 281 companies now flagging such risks.
Arize AI's analysis revealed that 56.2% of Fortune 500 companies now include AI risks in their latest annual reports, a substantial jump from the previous year's 49 companies.
The software and technology sectors lead the mentions of generative AI, while advertising, media, and entertainment industries report the highest percentage, 91.7%, of AI as a risk factor.
⚖️ Anthropic gets sued on allegations of ‘large-scale theft’LINK
A group of authors has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, alleging "large-scale theft" for using pirated copies of copyrighted books to train its chatbot, Claude.
This marks the first lawsuit by writers specifically targeting Anthropic, although similar cases have been brought against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, for the same reasons.
The lawsuit accuses Anthropic, which markets itself as a responsible AI developer, of contradicting its goals by using unauthorized works, and it adds to the increasing legal challenges faced by AI developers.
🌩️ Nvidia's new AI predicts thunderstorms with kilometer-scale precisionLINK
Nvidia Research has introduced StormCast, a new AI model for high-precision atmospheric dynamics to enhance mesoscale weather prediction, which is critical for disaster preparedness and mitigation.
Integrated into Nvidia's Earth-2 platform, StormCast provides hourly autoregressive forecasts that are more accurate than current US operational models by 10%, improving early warning systems for severe weather events.
Trained on NOAA climate data, StormCast predicts over 100 weather variables and allows scientists to observe storm evolution in three dimensions, marking significant advancements in AI-driven weather forecasting by Nvidia.
Other news you might like
HuggingFace releases open source guide 'LeRobot' for building AI robots.LINK
Google releases code for HeAR, an AI that analyzes audio to assess health.LINK
TSMC breaks ground on €10 billion factory in Germany amid growing China-Taiwan tensions.LINK
Vulnerability in Microsoft apps allowed hackers to spy on Mac users.LINK
A frontrunner in Europe’s private launch industry just lost its first rocket.LINK
Zoom can now handle one million simultaneous participants.LINK
Swarmbotics founders grew ‘obsessed with robot swarms’ and now plan to bring them to the battlefield.LINK
Latest research and tools
13ft: a self-hosted tool that mimics GoogleBot to bypass paywalls and ads on websites, allowing free access to otherwise paid content.LINK
Transformers for Ruby: a library that allows the implementation of machine learning models for natural language processing, following the Python API's structure, primarily for Ruby applications.LINK
RP2040 HID Remapper: a configurable USB dongle designed to remap inputs from various devices like mice and keyboards, supporting functions such as button reassignment, keyboard layout changes, and sensitivity adjustments, configurable via a web browser and compatible with wireless receivers.LINK
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