Users on the Uber app can sign up to gain early access to the robotaxi service, which will take people across 65 square miles of Atlanta, including Downtown, Buckhead, and Capitol View. Waymo says “select riders” who join the waitlist “may get access to Waymo rides ahead of the public launch.”
Last month, Waymo similarly launched in Austin exclusively through Uber.
The app’s code block feature now supports CSharp, CSS, Go, HTML, JSON, Kotlin, and PHP in addition to the five languages it originally launched with in 2022.
The AI model, called DolphinGemma, is trained on the Wild Dolphin Project’s database of sounds from wild Atlantic spotted dolphins. It’s designed to identify the patterns and structure of a dolphin’s sound, allowing it to “predict the likely subsequent sounds in a sequence” and maybe even help scientists figure out what they’re “saying.”
Teachers can use Gemini AI to come up with quiz questions based on an uploaded file or manually inputted text. Educators can then customize the questions by choosing the skills they want students to demonstrate and export them to Google Docs or Google Forms. The feature is rolling out now to educators with Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium.
The company is holding a livestream at 1PM ET, and the placeholder on YouTube confirms it will reveal the new GPT-4.1 model. Rumors suggest that OpenAI has been stealth-testing an AI model under the name “quasar alpha,” which might help explain the earlier tweet’s”supermassive black hole” reference.
Update: Added livestream details.
The investment firm Silver Lake will purchase 51 percent of Altera, a programmable chips company Intel acquired in 2015, for $4.46 billion.
The deal comes less than a month after Lip-Bu Tan took over as Intel’s CEO, reportedly with plans to overhaul the struggling chipmaker’s manufacturing business.
