Uber and WeRide’s robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi is officially driverless
The commercial robotaxi service launched last year. Now, the human safety operator is gone.
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Black Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney
It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.No, today the German AI startup Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2, a new image generation and editing system complete with four different models designed to support production-grade creative workflows.FLUX.2 introduces multi-reference conditioning, higher-fidelity outputs, and improved text rendering, and it expands
Elon Musk once called DOGE ‘the chainsaw for bureaucracy,’ but it has quietly ceased to exist well ahead of schedule, report says
"But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal ...
T1 accepts Elon Musk’s challenge for top LoL team to compete against Grok AI
T1 and Faker have accepted Elon Musk’s challenge for the world’s top League of Legends team to face off against his AI, Grok.
Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers
From the constant 4:20 references to his quote tweet “dunks” to awarding “ Certified Bangers ” badges to silly X posts, Musk’s desperation for validation knows no bounds. It can get pretty annoying ...
What was Elon Musk's DOGE? What to know after cost-cutting initiative ends.
Even after Musk's exit in May, DOGE was intended to continue operations until the summer of 2026, under Trump's January ...
Elon Musk’s ‘Vulgar’ Comments to Joe Rogan Resurfaces
In October 2025, Elon Musk appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, named PowerfulJRE, where they discussed a wide variety of topics, ...
Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’
An investor explains the "buy, fix, and hold" model employed by Bending Spoons and similar companies that buy distressed startups.
YouTube is working on a feature that will fix the messy home feed
YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows users to customize their home feed.
Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.
ChatGPT’s voice mode is no longer a separate interface
ChatGPT now lets you use voice and text in the same screen, making conversations feel more natural as responses and visuals appear in real time.
Warner Music signs deal with AI music startup Suno, settles lawsuit
WMG says artists and songwriters will have full control over whether and how their names, images, likenesses, voices, and compositions are used in new AI-generated music.
OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren’t sweating it
Startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.
Give First Available in Audiobook Format
Give First is now available to pre-order in Audiobook format (it will be officially released on 12/2/26). I’m the reader, so if you are an audiobook person, you’ll have to listen to me for a few hours. It was fun doing the recording (I’ve done the audio recording for two other books – Venture Deals (Jason and I alternated chapters) and Startup Life.Give First Audiobook on AmazonGive First Audiobook on AudibleGive First Audiobook on AppleOther links via RBmediaThe post Giv
Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths
Career exploration platform Find Your Grind raises $5 million to help more students discover alternative professions.
Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot leaves WhatsApp on January 15
WhatsApp's new platform policies ban general-purpose AI chatbots like Copilot from using its service.
China’s Pony AI plans to triple global robotaxi fleet by the end of 2026
The Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai has global ambitions and plans to build a 3,000-strong robotaxi fleet to meet them.
Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites
The discovery suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected.
Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension
In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall quality improvement in speech recognition models. Speechify is hitching its wagon to this train and launching its own dictation tool with support for English.
What enterprises should know about The White House's new AI 'Manhattan Project' the Genesis Mission
President Donald Trump’s new “Genesis Mission” unveiled Monday is billed as a generational leap in how the United States does science akin to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb during World War II. The executive order directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to build a “closed-loop AI experimentation platform” that links the country’s 17 national laboratories, federal supercomputers, and decades of government scientific data into “one cooperative system for research.” The White Hou