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7 stories dated December 2024.
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The ride count rose roughly sevenfold from the late-2023 total, CNBC reported, in the same month GM shut its Cruise robotaxi unit. Waymo's next vehicle is being built with China's Geely.
Klarna's AI assistant took over two-thirds of its customer service chats in its first month. The CEO says headcount fell from about 4,500 to 3,500, mostly by not replacing people who left.
About 1,200 orders in, the pilot has student fans, a few-dollar fee and a city council member asking what it means for delivery workers.
A fleet-services startup with roots in Africa will clean, charge and maintain Waymo's robotaxis in Phoenix, then build depots for a planned 2026 launch in Miami. Neither side disclosed terms.
A study run with the reinsurer compared liability claims over 25.3 million driverless miles with Swiss Re's human-driver baselines. Waymo published the results; the paper had been submitted to a journal but not yet published.
Six families got keys to the Lünen building, where rent is capped at €6 per square metre. The printer ran for 118 hours.
Toyota built an in-house platform so shop-floor staff, not AI specialists, create the machine-learning models. Models made rose from 8,000 in 2023 to 10,000 in 2024, and the platform runs in all 10 of its car and unit factories.