Tesla gets approval for autonomous ride hailing in Arizona with a safety monitor

Tesla has received permission from the Arizona Department of Transportation to operate an autonomous ride-hailing service with a safety monitor in the state. On its last earnings call, Tesla said it planned to expand its robotaxi service to 8-10 markets by the end of this year.

Currently Tesla operates the service autonomously in Austin with a safety monitor in the passenger’s seat, and in the Bay Area with a driver using supervised full-self driving tech. Google’sWaymo operates a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in both those markets.

Tesla Gets Approval for Autonomous Rideshare Service in Arizona

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Meta’s AI video feed, Vibes, which launched in late September as part of the Meta AI app, has 2 million daily active users, Business Insiders reports, citing internal data. That’s more than OpenAI’s Sora, which launched around the same time but only recently — and perhaps temporarily — became available to the public without an invite. It had about 673,000 daily active users in November, according to Similarweb.

Still, for Meta, 2 million isn’t much for a product that’s integrated with Facebook and Instagram. Threads, another app Meta users are pushed to from its larger properties, for example, recently surpassed 150 million daily active users. In its last earnings report, Meta said it had 3.5 billion daily users across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

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Google releases Gemini 3 AI model

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Intuit strikes $100 million partnership with OpenAI

We are starting to see the appification of ChatGPT.

Last month, OpenAI announced its refreshed vision for app integration within ChatGPT, announcing deals with Spotify, Zillow, and Figma to allow those companies’ customers to use the apps right within the chatbot.

Today, Intuit is joining the lineup, bringing its products into ChatGPT. TurboxTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp will come to ChatGPT as part of a $100 million multiyear partnership between Intuit and OpenAI.

Intuit will expand the use of OpenAI’s tools internally, while still using its own proprietary models.

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