Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-trans…
from my link log —
ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
saved 2025-01-16
Watching window cleaning robots never gets old.
"AUcH, weNn ES dIe pOlItiSche fÜhRunG zu UNterBinDEN vErSuChT" - die Gruppe jener #noAfD ler, die wegen unverdautem Militärfetisch bei dem Zirkus mitmachen, ist bislang zu wenig erforscht - hauptsächlich deshalb, weil man mit ständigen Lachanfällen nicht gut forschen kann.
Not only do #Youtube's automatic AI voice-overs sound like customer-service hotline robots ... their translations aren't even correct!
Here's one of those funny "interview with a Javascript programmer / Linux user / etc." videos. It's subtitle right at the beginning mentions a "404 page" (you know, the web server "page not found" errors). The mo…
Sources: Foxconn and Nvidia are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory in Houston by Q1 2026 to produce Nvidia AI servers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia
Sources: Masayoshi Son is pitching a Shenzhen-like $1T AI and robotics manufacturing hub in Arizona, codenamed Project Crystal Land, in partnership with TSMC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…