4:08 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 A regulatory cap limiting Zoox to 100 robotaxis in Nevada is set to expire this month, clearing the…
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Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal |
5:02 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 Geothermal startup Mazama Energy raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B, the startup said Thursday. The fresh…
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI |
If AI lab PrismML isn’t on your radar yet, it should be — not because it’s raised gobs of money (it hasn’t yet, just a…
The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI |
In Brief Posted: 3:14 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 The Federal Aviation Administration has been struggling to manage an air traffic control shortage throughout…
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal |
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping…
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI |
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and…
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents |
The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to…
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire |
10:15 AM PDT · September 17, 2026 Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging…
Waymo restarts San Antonio service 5 months after flooding troubles |
Waymo has restarted its robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, five months after one of its vehicles was swept away during a flash flood. Multiple…
Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI |
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, leaders…