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Google’s Waymo is now doing more than 450,000 paid autonomous rides per week, CNBC reports. That’s nearly double the 250,000 it reported doing in April, as the service expands to cities across the country and widens its lead against Tesla.
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Google to bring ads to Gemini chatbot in 2026
It’s an end of an era: ads are finally coming to Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, AdWeek reports, citing agency buyers. Details are sparse but the search giant, which makes the vast majority of its revenue from ads, plans to turn on the ad spigot in its flagship chatbot sometime next year.
Google recently rolled out ads in AI Mode, its AI browser search option, after doing the same with its AI Overviews earlier in the year.
This is all happening as competitor OpenAI, which is in dire need of more revenue, disputes multiple reports of advertising coming to ChatGPT.
This is all happening as competitor OpenAI, which is in dire need of more revenue, disputes multiple reports of advertising coming to ChatGPT.
The AI bubble may be constrained by energy supply
Big Tech companies like OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are racing each other to spend tens of billions of dollars on massive AI data centers.
But no matter how many Nvidia GPUs you acquire through a complex partnership, there is one factor that may limit the industry’s AI dreams: energy.
A new analysis by the Financial Times found that the tech industry is currently moving forward with plans to build out a staggering 44 gigawatts’ worth of computing infrastructure. The problem is that there’s only about 25 gigawatts of power coming online in the next three years, creating a 19-gigawatt gap, according to the report.
Even with the full support of the Trump administration, it could be hard for all the tech companies to get the power they want, something that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as well as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have both noted is the main obstacle to rapid AI expansion.
A new analysis by the Financial Times found that the tech industry is currently moving forward with plans to build out a staggering 44 gigawatts’ worth of computing infrastructure. The problem is that there’s only about 25 gigawatts of power coming online in the next three years, creating a 19-gigawatt gap, according to the report.
Even with the full support of the Trump administration, it could be hard for all the tech companies to get the power they want, something that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as well as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have both noted is the main obstacle to rapid AI expansion.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Waymo says its robotaxis are involved in 80% fewer injury-causing crashes than human-driven cars
Even with an exemplary safety record, Waymo will have to defend itself vigorously each time one of its autonomous vehicles illegally passes a school bus or kills a cat.
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