Advancements In Self-Driving Cars - by Zvi Mowshowitz

kept by eddie jan 08

Waymo expands to the entire SF Bay Area and plans 17 US cities by 2026, but faces regulatory barriers and speed-limit issues despite being vastly safer than human drivers.

The Revolution of Rising Expectations - by Zvi Mowshowitz
Rising expectations and requirements, not declining data, make it harder for families to afford a socially acceptable lifestyle despite material improvements.
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Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic - The New York Times
Over 100 Google AI employees sent a letter to chief scientist Jeff Dean opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and certain autonomous weapons.
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GitHub - baidu/Unlimited-OCR: Unlimited OCR Works: Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing.
Baidu releases Unlimited-OCR, a VLM-based OCR that processes entire documents in a single pass using reference sliding window attention to avoid memory overflow.
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How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas
China's tech giants are hosting public events to drive mass adoption of OpenClaw, the AI agent now used beyond the U.S. and supported by government subsidies.
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The Jeff Dean Facts
This piece preserves a collection of humorous 'Jeff Dean Facts' memes that exaggerate his programming abilities, originally from a now-removed Quora post.
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