Self-driving trucks are coming to America's highways

The switch to our self-driving future has been far from smooth so far. In San Francisco, restless natives have come out in force against the rollout of autonomous taxis, Tesla

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Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia

Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia — the single largest investment in Microsoft’s 29-year history in the country —

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Kylie Robison Joins The Verge as Senior AI Reporter

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The Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel today announced that Kylie Robison is joining the site as senior AI reporter, where she’ll lead

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Upwork rolls out the AI platform ‘Uma’ to help make the job match easier

Upwork hopes Uma can eventually serve as a constant companion that supports customers while on the site.

Work marketplace Upwork is introducing its first “mindful artificial intelligence” solution that

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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure

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A new Walmart in-store AI is giving employees advice on how to sell products before it's too late

Produce goes bad and clothes go out of fashion fast, issues that add to the massive food and retail waste the world’s major retailers are on the hook to solve.

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Goldman sees 10% downside for Tesla even after China self-driving progress

Tesla shares could cool following Monday’s rally as obstacles remain to achieving full self-driving technology in China, according to Goldman Sachs. The electric-vehicle maker’s stock climbed more than 15% Monday,

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SwitchBot S10 review: with plumbing hookups, this robovac and mop is actually hands-free

Thanks to its self-cleaning mop, automatic water tanks, and supersize bin, this robot vacuum can go for two months without any manual intervention. 

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Amazon Q adds feature to create AI apps using natural language

Amazon Q Apps was announced in preview Tuesday morning. (Amazon Image)

Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part

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Samsung joins Nvidia in AI semiconductor boom as memory chip sales help profits quadruple last year’s result

The results underscore how demand for the memory chips that power modern electronics and artificial intelligence is starting to rebound after a severe downturn. Read More

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‘A dangerous precedent for allowing baseless allegations and xenophobic fears’ – DJI lashes out at its potential US drones ban

DJI is the latest Chinese company to be facing a Tik-Tok-style ban in the US – and the world’s leading drone maker has told us in no uncertain terms what it

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The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

The robot race is fueling

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