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🚕 Nvidia is reportedly building a $3B robotaxi fleet
🗺️ Apple may bring ads to Maps next year
👋 X is erasing the last traces of Twitter
🤖 Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia
🧾 Workers use AI for fake expense receipts
⚖️ Australia sues Microsoft over misleading Copilot pricing
🎁 + 10 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🚕 Nvidia is reportedly building a $3B robotaxi fleet LINK
Nvidia is reportedly investing $3 billion to create its own internal robotaxi fleet for US operations, a project separate from its existing partnerships with other major car manufacturers.
The initiative will use a single-stage “end-to-end” approach, likely building on Nvidia's Cosmos world foundation model to generate synthetic video for training its autonomous driving system.
This effort is seen as a training ground to improve its engineering and close a performance gap with Tesla's FSD, where internal tests showed Nvidia's system required more interventions.
🗺️ Apple may bring ads to Maps next year LINK
According to a report, Apple may start showing ads in its Maps app next year, allowing businesses to pay for better placement directly within the platform’s search results.
This advertising model is similar to Google Maps, where restaurants and companies with brick-and-mortar locations can pay to promote themselves to people looking for places nearby.
Apple will reportedly try to stand out from its competition with a better interface and by using AI to show people more relevant results when they are using the app.
👋 X is erasing the last traces of Twitter LINK
X is requiring people who use physical security keys or passkeys for 2FA to re-enroll them so the company can completely retire the old twitter.com domain name.
This update is necessary because the hardware-based login methods are tied to a specific website address and won't work with x.com until they are manually re-associated.
Users who do not complete this process for their security keys by the November 10th deadline will have their accounts locked until the required update is finally finished.
🤖 Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia LINK
Qualcomm is entering the data center market to directly compete with Nvidia, releasing AI accelerator chips called the AI200 and AI250 that are based on its smartphone Hexagon NPUs.
The new chips focus on inference instead of training AI models and will be sold in full liquid-cooled server racks or as separate components for clients to mix and match.
Qualcomm claims a key advantage with its AI cards supporting 768 gigabytes of memory, which is higher than Nvidia’s offerings, while also promising lower overall operating costs for customers.
🧾 Workers use AI for fake expense receipts LINK
Expense software platform AppZen reports that AI generated expenses now make up 14% of fraudulent documents submitted in September 2025, rising from a total of 0% during the year 2024.
The AI generated receipts are so convincing that human reviewers are often unable to distinguish them from real ones, forcing experts to warn businesses that people should not trust their own eyes.
Businesses may need to deploy software that scans the metadata of each receipt, but this is not a clear-cut solution because the information itself can be removed from the document file.
⚖️ Australia sues Microsoft over misleading Copilot pricing LINK
Australia's consumer watchdog is suing Microsoft, alleging the company misled 2.7 million subscribers by concealing a less expensive option when adding its Copilot AI to Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
The lawsuit claims Microsoft engineered a false choice, forcing customers to either accept a price hike up to 45% for the AI or cancel, without mentioning the available "Classic" plan.
This Australian legal challenge could set a global precedent, as reports from other markets describe a similar experience where a non-AI alternative was only revealed during the cancellation process.
Other news you might like
- Trump and Xi will ‘consummate’ TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary saysLINK
- The next iPad Pro could be the first to get vapor chamber coolingLINK
- Elon Musk could leave Tesla if he doesn't get his $1 trillion pay package, board chair warnsLINK
- Researchers turn mushrooms into living memory chips for sustainable computingLINK
- China unveils ‘fridge-sized’ AI server that slashes power use by 90%LINK
- 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.LINK
- Amazon’s AWS Shows Signs of Weakness as Competitors Charge AheadLINK
- Microsoft's OpenAI losses hidden as part of $4.7 billion 'other' expense — stake in AI company still doesn't turn a profit as companies grapple with ongoing contract negotiationLINK
- Apple Says U.S. Passport Feature on iPhone is Coming SoonLINK
Latest research and tools
Recall for Linux: a tool that continuously captures your screen, creating a searchable visual history of everything you do on your computer.LINK
GPUI Component: a Rust library that provides cross-platform UI components, including a high-performance code editor, for building desktop applications with a modern, native-inspired design.LINK
A definition of AGI: artificial general intelligence is a theoretical type of AI that can understand, learn, and apply knowledge to any task that a human can.LINK
MyraOS: a 32-bit operating system with a graphical interface that can run real applications and games, such as a preloaded port of Doom, on actual devices.LINK
Are-we-fast-yet implementations: a collection of programs in different languages, such as C++ and Pascal, that are used to test and compare how fast each language performs on a standard set of tasks.LINK
VSCode: a performance issue was found in its rendering loop that slows down the user interface, with a proposed fix to make animations smoother by organizing visual tasks more efficiently.LINK
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