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Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — more than 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. And it’s taking a global approach. Here, TechCrunch tracks every one of those moves in one place. But first, a bit of history.  Uber was, at one time, developing and testing its own autonomous vehicle (AV) technology. The company, then led by Travis Kalanick, created Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) in 2014 and recruited dozens of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics program.  Two years later, Uber acquired Otto, a self-driving truck company founded by former…

17 Verizon, AT&T, and SK Telecom are betting big on AI infrastructure. But technology advisory group Omdia says the headline numbers are ceilings, and warns revenue will trail capacity growth for years. In sum – what to know: Unproven scale – Verizon’s $1bn Google DCI agreement is signed and live; Schulman’s claim of a multi-billion-dollar “growth vector” from 2027 is still a forecast. Small contracts – Hyperscalers spec deals at their eventual ceiling (sometimes 400 waves of capacity) but sign carriers up for a fraction at the start (as few as six waves). Traffic ≠ revenue – Capacity demand from…

In this article, you will learn the seven architectural components that separate a production-grade agentic AI system from a demo script, and how each one fits into the agent’s core feedback loop. Topics we will cover include: What each of the seven components — perception, memory, reasoning and planning, tool execution, orchestration, guardrails, and observability — is specifically responsible for. Where each component tends to break in real systems, and why that component must be kept separate from the others. Focused, runnable Python code illustrating the responsibility of each component in isolation. Introduction Most “build an AI agent” tutorials show…

Large language models understand text well, but they become less effective when information is scattered across documents or mixed with images and other media. Modern AI systems rely on vector databases, which store embeddings and enable similarity search across collections. LanceDB is a vector database built for AI workloads, with native support for multimodal data and efficient retrieval. In this article, we will examine how vector databases work, how they retrieve similar items, how multimodal search is implemented, and what makes LanceDB useful for modern AI applications. What Is a Vector Database? In simple terms, vector databases are databases that store…

Meta says artificial intelligence is beginning to shorten the distance between a product idea and a working application. During the company’s latest earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI is accelerating software development across Meta and could allow its engineers to create and test more consumer apps. He cited several recent launches, although the company did not quantify the productivity gains or explain which AI development tools its teams are using. For software leaders, Meta’s experience offers an early glimpse of how AI could change development cycles and team output—but it leaves open important questions about code quality, security, and…

Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of a sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks. Pedro Falé is a threat researcher with the security firm Bitsight. Falé told KrebsOnSecurity he was able to peer inside a vast and complex ad fraud network by…

Waste Vehicle containing waste pulled over on roaming stop checks by Lancashire Police. DVSA checking road worthiness. (Image credit: @EA). A multi-agency enforcement operation led by the Environment Agency has identified two previously unknown illegal waste sites and recovered stolen machinery and vehicles during a coordinated crackdown on organised waste crime in Lancashire. More than 35 officers from the Environment Agency, Lancashire Police, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), Burnley Council and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) took part in the operation across Bacup and Burnley on 23 July. The EA said the activity is part of its continuing…

When I first started reporting on tech projects from the maker and engineer community almost a decade ago, DIY humanoid robots were still uncommon and difficult to pull off. But technology has progressed dramatically over that time period. Not only are high-performance humanoid robots breaking into the mainstream, but DIY builds are more accessible than ever before. To prove that, Oliver Paff built this set of humanoid robot legs that are awesome, even without a torso.Our younger readers may not realize why this is a big deal, because lots of makers build humanoid robots these days. But consider everything you…

Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore.  Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply by being a physical device. It’s an NFC key that pairs with a companion app to let you lock away distracting apps. So instead of tapping a button to bypass the block, you have to physically scan the key with your phone to regain access to your locked apps. Each unlock session can last for…

The most useful coding agents can mutate their environments by downloading packages, writing files, and connecting to services across the network. However, that freedom also presents dangers, and promises to usher in a new wave of security threats.Docker recently announced Docker Sandboxes, which give each agent its own isolated micro VM while preserving the familiar ergonomics of a container. A standard container shares the host’s kernel, but a micro VM emulates hardware and runs its own kernel, giving a stronger security boundary around code that cannot be trusted.Mark Cavage is the President and COO of Docker, and he previously worked…