Wayve and Uber plan London robotaxi launch after UK speeds up autonomous vehicle rollout
Wayve and Uber plan to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in the coming years.
Moltbook was peak AI theater
For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots. As the website’s tagline puts it: “Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.” We observed! Launched on January 28 by Matt Schlicht,…
Ongoing cyberattack at US grocery distributor giant UNFI affecting customer orders
United Natural Foods said it is “diligently managing through the cyber incident” that sparked disruption outages.
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Google’s AI Overviews are killing traffic for publishers
Google’s AI Overviews and other AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report.
The Download: IBM’s quantum computer, and cuts to military AI testing
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028 The news: IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing…
Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG
Co-founded by Adyen’s former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.
WWDC 2025: Everything that Apple ‘Sherlocked’ this time
Just like every year, Apple has once again built in some features into its operating systems that were previously available through third-party apps.
IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by 2028. It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029. The proposed machine, named Starling, will consist of a network of modules, each of which contains a set of chips,…
The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems
The Trump administration’s chainsaw approach to federal spending lives on, even as Elon Musk turns on the president. On May 28, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced he’d be gutting a key office at the Department of Defense responsible for testing and evaluating the safety of weapons and AI systems. As part of a string…