The annual National Security Education Day has been observed across China since its inception in 2015. In Hong Kong, it carried additional significance this year as the city strives to build on the restored stability and prosperity for a new critical stage of development under the nation’s new five-year blueprint. Themed “Proactively Align with the 15th five-year plan: Follow a Holistic Approach t...
The annual National Security Education Day has been observed across China since its inception in 2015. In Hong Kong, it carried additional significance this year as the city strives to build on the restored stability and prosperity for a new critical stage of development under the nation’s new five-year blueprint. Themed “Proactively Align with the 15th five-year plan: Follow a Holistic Approach to Development and Security”, the message delivered at the official ceremony held in Wan Chai could...
Waymo Partners With Waze To Use Self-Driving Cars To Track Potholes Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two Alphabet-owned companies, Waymo and Waze, announced on April 9 that they will team up to detect potholes and share that information with local government agencies to help get them filled more efficiently. A self-driving Waymo vehicle awaits passengers in Los Angeles...
Waymo Partners With Waze To Use Self-Driving Cars To Track Potholes Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two Alphabet-owned companies, Waymo and Waze, announced on April 9 that they will team up to detect potholes and share that information with local government agencies to help get them filled more efficiently. A self-driving Waymo vehicle awaits passengers in Los Angeles on July 1, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times “Waymo is already making roads safer where we operate,“ said Arielle Fleisher, the company’s policy development and research manager, in a statement. ” We want to build on the safety benefits of our service by partnering with organizations and city officials to help improve the infrastructure we all depend on .” Waymo, which started out as a Google self-driving car project in 2009 and spun out into its own company under Alphabet in 2016, said the pothole program was inspired from feedback it gathered from city officials over the years and is intended to fill reporting gaps. Waymos are covered with cameras and sensors. The company said it will use its feedback systems to detect potholes and share that information through Waze’s platform, which users will be able to verify. Waze, a GPS navigation app that lets drivers alert others with live updates, was acquired by Alphabet-subsidiary Google in 2013 for around $1.1 billion. “This pilot program with Waymo adds another source of data to that effort, giving cities a clearer picture of road conditions through our Waze for Cities platform. It’s a great example of how working together helps our community and makes our roads better for everyone,” Waze Strategic Partner Manager Andrew Stober said. Waze and Waymo will launch the pilot program in five areas—the San Francisco Bay Area, where the two companies are headquartered in Mountain View, as well as the Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta metro areas. “We appreciate the collaboration with Waymo and Waze as we explore how techn...
Shares of online community and discussion platform Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) jumped 3% in the afternoon session after sentiment improved following significant moves from heavyweights like Meta Platforms, which extended its partnership with Broadcom to deploy custom AI chips.
Shares of online community and discussion platform Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) jumped 3% in the afternoon session after sentiment improved following significant moves from heavyweights like Meta Platforms, which extended its partnership with Broadcom to deploy custom AI chips.
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that Anthropic PBC’s Mythos breakthrough shows that the US should seek greater cooperation with China so artificial intelligence researchers in the world’s two largest economies can agree on how to safely use the increasingly powerful technology. “We want the United States to win, but I think having a dialogue and having a research dialogue is...
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that Anthropic PBC’s Mythos breakthrough shows that the US should seek greater cooperation with China so artificial intelligence researchers in the world’s two largest economies can agree on how to safely use the increasingly powerful technology. “We want the United States to win, but I think having a dialogue and having a research dialogue is probably the safest thing to do,” Huang said in an interview Wednesday on the technology-focused Dwarkesh Podcast. “It is essential that we try to both agree on what not to use the AI for.” Huang expressed concern that US-China tensions over trade and security issues have impeded coordination on crucial research. “This is an area that is glaringly missing because of our current attitude about China as an adversary,” he said. “It is essential that our AI researchers and their AI researchers are actually talking.” Read More: Bessent Calls Anthropic’s Mythos a Breakthrough in China AI Race Over the past year, Huang has pressed the Trump administration for relief from US export restrictions that have blocked sales of Nvidia’s top AI processors to China on national security grounds. In December, President Donald Trump agreed to allow Nvidia to ship its less advanced H200 AI chips to Chinese customers, a significant easing of measures aimed at restraining China’s growth in AI. Huang’s push for wider access to the Chinese market has put Nvidia at odds with Anthropic, whose CEO has favored stricter export controls and called the H200 decision a “mistake” in January. Though the two firms have nearly opposite positions on China, Nvidia is one of Anthropic’s key suppliers and an investor in the AI company, which makes the popular Claude chatbot. Nvidia is putting $10 billion into Anthropic, though Huang said last month it would likely be the company’s last investment. As part of a November deal, which also involved Microsoft Corp. , Anthropic is committed to taking as much as 1 gigaw...
In trading on Wednesday, shares of Kimco Realty Corp's 7.25% Series D Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Shares (Symbol: KIM.PRN) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $3.6248), with shares changing hands as low as $59.90 on the d
In trading on Wednesday, shares of Kimco Realty Corp's 7.25% Series D Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Shares (Symbol: KIM.PRN) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $3.6248), with shares changing hands as low as $59.90 on the d
US military leaders painted a picture of Chinese military threats, spanning Taiwan and space, as they briefed Congress on the military readiness for the financial year 2027 on Wednesday. The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) “invasion rehearsals and live-fire exercises near Taiwan and around the region” had illustrated “the need for combat-ready naval forces in the Indo-Pacific”, according to James...
US military leaders painted a picture of Chinese military threats, spanning Taiwan and space, as they briefed Congress on the military readiness for the financial year 2027 on Wednesday. The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) “invasion rehearsals and live-fire exercises near Taiwan and around the region” had illustrated “the need for combat-ready naval forces in the Indo-Pacific”, according to James Kilby, vice chief of Naval Operations. “[The US Navy therefore] remains committed to partnering and...