Amazon Backs Out of Publishing Open-World Driving Game from Ex-Forza Horizon Developers

Amazon will no longer publish UK developer Maverick Games’ yet-to-be-titled open-world driving game, reports The Game ...
Gematsu

Amazon Games abandons plan to publish Maverick Games-developed open-world driving game

Amazon Games has abandoned its previously announced plan to publish Maverick Games’ narrative-led, open-world driving game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, according to a The Game ...

Nvidia, Microsoft back self-driving firm Wayve as it hits $8.6 billion valuation

Autonomous driving company Wayve has hit an $8.6 billion valuation after securing fresh funds from Nvidia, Microsoft and Uber ...
Wall Street Journal

Hands-Free Driving Systems Confuse Drivers, but Carmakers Push for More

A Ford engineer and her husband were driving their new F-150 pickup in May when something went terribly wrong. The engineer told Ford they were using Ford’s hands-free driving system, BlueCruise, ...
The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...
Fox News

Congress moves to set national rules for self-driving cars, overriding states

Lawmakers led by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, teed up consideration of how Congress approaches the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs) Tuesday, pressing the case for national safety standards that, if ...
Seeking Alpha

Waymo using Genie 3 to create hard-to-predict driving scenarios

To make autonomous driving safer and more reliable, Waymo (GOOG) (GOOGL) is using DeepMind’s Genie 3 AI model to create realistic digital worlds to help its autonomous vehicles handle hard-to-predict ...
Ars Technica

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...
Benzinga.com

This Should Scare Us All

In a post on the social media platform X on Thursday, the senator criticized Waymo for using remote workers. He shared that he "got Waymo to admit" that it was "using people 8000 miles away in the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Waymo Says Genie 3 Simulations Can Help Boost Robotaxi Rollout

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo said it is using DeepMind’s Genie 3 AI model to create realistic, digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios. The self-driving tech ...
Yahoo

Mom shares 'game-changer' tip to make use of empty medication bottles: 'I literally [do] this all the time'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: @redeux_style / TikTok When it comes to medicine bottles, if you're anything like most people, you have them in ...
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Linked up.

Google has begun selling access to Project Genie, an interactive world creation tool that lets you generate playable environments from a prompt — including those featuring Nintendo characters. The ...