Mountain View, California-based Drive.ai made kits that turned regular cars into self-driving ones.
Axios’s Kevin Waddell and Ina Fried are reporting that Apple will buy Drive.ai for an undisclosed sum. Their story confirms an earlier San Francisco Chronicle article that said Apple…
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One of Uber’s self-driving vehicles outside the company’s facility in Pittsburgh. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
Uber just made its first acquisition of a Seattle startup, swooping up Mighty AI, which develops training data for computer vision models.
The deal closed today…
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Sae Kang, third grade teacher at John Muir Elementary School in Seattle, watches with students as a FIRST LEGO robot goes through its paces on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
It was already pajama day in Sae Kang’s third grade…
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Drive.ai, the autonomous vehicle tech startup once valued at $200 million, is shutting down after four years, according to a state regulatory filing.
The closure was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. The company is not responding to…
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5G delivers super-fast connectivity that can be used for many everyday tasks and it’s the area where driverless cars are being developed that really fires up the imagination. Autonomous vehicles are currently being tested that offer distinct possibilities for the…
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An organization that won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for its work to eliminate nuclear weapons is sounding the alarm about the possibility of artificial intelligence leading to unintended wars.
Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear…
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Vivian Ho befriended an electronic arm and grappled with a defunct tea maker during a trip through Silicon Valley
Around the world, an industry has emerged around automating food service through robotics, raising questions about job security and mass unemployment while…
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Google sister company Sidewalk Labs outlines a plan for a 12-acre lot with affordable housing, a pneumatic tube for garbage, and room for autonomous vehicles.
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