Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former disc jockey who went on to host ABC's The Les Crane Show for one year ...

Google Project Genie : You Don’t Need Unity to Build Worlds Anymore

Project Genie is available to Google AI Ultra subscribers, giving access to real-time AI world building features. Build ...
BGR

5 Of The Best Sites For Free 3D Printing Projects And Open Source Models

The moment you finish setting up your first 3D printer, it may feel as though the entire world is at your fingertips. After all, you can craft all sorts of things, from handy tools to beautiful ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Small Language Models Create New Security Risks

The rollout of edge AI is creating new security risks due to a mix of small language models (SLMs), their integration into increasingly complex hardware, and the behavior and interactions of both over ...
Wired

Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own

Amazon has announced a new family of frontier artificial intelligence models—and a new way for customers to build frontier models of their own. The ecommerce giant announced the second generation of ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This Illinois company is moving to the Milwaukee area. But there's no word yet on when

Yaskawa America Inc. is relocating its headquarters from Waukegan, Illinois, to Franklin, Wisconsin. The robotics manufacturer purchased the development site for just over $41 million. The company ...
Motor Trend

Here’s Why Tesla’s New Model Y Is Much Better Than the Old One

What would a Tesla be without controversy and split opinions? The Tesla Model Y’s midcycle refresh brought significant enough changes to earn it a spot in our 2026 SUV of the Year competition. The ...
CNBC

OpenAI introduces safety models that other sites can use to classify harms

OpenAI announced two so-called open-weight reasoning models. Developers can use the models to classify a range of online safety harms based on their specific policy needs. OpenAI developed the models ...
SiliconANGLE

Adobe’s AI Foundry service lets companies create branded versions of its Firefly models

Adobe Inc. is moving artificial intelligence into a slightly new direction, giving businesses the chance to create custom generative AI models rather than fine-tune existing ones. The company is ...
AEC Magazine

Vectorworks 2026

The arrival of Autumn also means the arrival of Vectorworks’ annual updates to its Architect, Landmark, Spotlight and Design Suite products. Martyn Day looks at how the product set is evolving under ...