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🚕 Waymo taxis are starting to drive like humans

🤖 Amazon unveils Kiro AI agent that codes autonomously for days

📈 Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever

🫠 Google's AI is replacing news headlines with clickbait chaos

🤝 Anthropic acquires Bun

🚀 How Blue Origin plans to beat SpaceX to the Moon

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• Waymo has reprogrammed its fleet to be "confidently assertive" on city roads, trading its famous caution for aggressive moves like cutting off drivers and accelerating while pedestrians are still in the street.
• Police in San Bruno recently pulled over a robotaxi for making an illegal U-turn, while residents report seeing the cars perform rolling "California stops" or abruptly changing lanes without using a signal.
• The company says strict adherence to rules can become disruptive, so the software now mimics human habits to go around obstacles like delivery trucks, even if it means crossing a double yellow line.

• Amazon unveiled Kiro, an autonomous agent that maintains persistent context across sessions to write production code for days without requiring constant developer supervision or human intervention to finish complex tasks from a backlog.
• This frontier agent builds spec-driven development profiles by scanning existing products to absorb coding standards, enabling the system to understand team styles and update 15 different corporate applications during a single assignment.
• An AWS Security Agent works alongside a DevOps Agent to automatically identify vulnerabilities and handle performance testing, creating a comprehensive automation suite that competes with OpenAI to solve the context window problem.

• Anthropic is reportedly holding early talks to launch an initial public offering next year while pursuing a private funding round that values the startup above $300 billion with investments from Nvidia.
• The company engaged law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to assist with internal preparations and hired former Airbnb executive Krishna Rao to help guide the potential listing, according to sources.
• This move positions the firm against rival OpenAI as it funds a $50 billion AI infrastructure build-out including new data centers in Texas and New York to continue expanding aggressively.

• Google Discover is experimentally replacing the original headlines publishers write with short AI summaries on Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones, often stripping away important context and making the news harder to understand.
• The feature generates misleading text like "Steam Machine price revealed" when the cost was not actually announced, turning accurate reporting from outlets like Ars Technica into confusing clickbait that misinforms readers.
• Google hides the disclosure that these lines are "Generated with AI" behind a button, leaving users to think news websites wrote the nonsense themselves while taking away their agency to market stories.

• Anthropic is acquiring the JavaScript runtime Bun to improve performance and stability for its Claude Code agent tool, helping developers build and test software with faster infrastructure workflows and reliability.
• This all-in-one toolkit combines a package manager, bundler, and test runner to accelerate how teams build applications, having directly powered the recent launch of the Claude Code native installer tool.
• The Bun project will remain open source and MIT-licensed while supporting the platform, which hit $1 billion in run-rate revenue just six months after becoming generally available to the public.

• Blue Origin intends to send a Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo lander early next year to deliver a NASA research device and gather data on the lunar surface before flying people.
• The company outlined a proposal to land astronauts by late 2028 using a modified vehicle with storable propellants, avoiding the complex task of in-space fuel transfers required for other future flights.
• CEO Dave Limp is pushing to operate faster by cutting staff and relying on proven hardware to challenge SpaceX, which holds a dominant position in operating rockets and flying crews to space.

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