A delivery van outfitted with Wayve’s autonomous driving software is part of the fleet of vehicles making grocery deliveries across London. Source: Wayve Uber on Tuesday announced it’s partnered with self-driving car technology firm Wayve to launch trials of fully autonomous rides in the U.K. The ride-hailing app said the pilot would be the first […]
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U.S. consumer spending on Temu fell about 36% in May compared to a year earlier, while it fell 13% over the same period on Shein, according to trend data from Consumer Edge. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Temu and Shein are pivoting to Europe as their business in the U.S. takes a major hit
IonQ is buying U.K.-based quantum computing startup Oxford Ionics in a deal valued at nearly $1.1 billion. Shares gained about 3%. The companies said in a release that the deal will combine IonQ’s quantum computing hardware and software knowledge with Oxford Ionics’ semiconductor chip technologies. The company aims to deliver breakthroughs in the field and
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Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s financial services watchdog on Monday announced a new tie-up with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia to let banks safely experiment with artificial intelligence. The Financial Conduct Authority said it will launch a so-called Supercharged Sandbox that will “give firms access to better data, technical expertise and regulatory
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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, at the London Tech Week exposition in London, UK, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Wherever Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang goes, excitement follows — this time, all the way to London Tech Week. The Nvidia boss — whom Wedbush
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says artificial intelligence is the “great equalizer” because it lets anyone program using everyday language. Speaking at London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that, historically, computing was hard and not available to everyone. “We had to learn programming languages. We had to architect it. We had to design these computers
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Sam Altman’s identity verification venture World is launching its eye-scanning Orb product in the U.K. World LONDON — World, the biometric identity verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is set to launch in the U.K. this week. The venture, which uses a spherical eye-scanning device called the Orb to scan people’s eyes, will
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The Taihuttus on a ski trip to Sierra Nevada in southern Spain. They sold everything they owned in 2017 to bet on bitcoin — and now travel full-time as a family of five. Didi Taihuttu A wave of high-profile kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency executives has rattled the industry — and prompted a quiet security revolution among
Tesla displays Optimus next to two of its vehicles at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 22, 2024. CNBC | Evelyn Tesla’s vice president of Optimus robotics, Milan Kovac, said on Friday that he’s leaving the company. In a post on X, Kovac thanked Tesla CEO Elon Musk and reminisced about his tenure,
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President Donald Trump holds a news conference with Elon Musk to mark the end of the Tesla CEO’s tenure as a special government employee overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service on Friday May 30, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla has
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