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Robotaxis carry real passengers in real cities. The rest of self-driving is still fenced by maps, permits, weather, hardware, and the question of who answers when a car stops.
SpaceX's S-1 classifies it as a data-processing firm, not a rocket company. After merging with xAI, its $2.3T listing looks less like aerospace and more like an AI bet.
OpenAI is on track to ship a screenless, always-listening AI device in late 2026, built on its $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's design studio. Apple's own AI wearable is reportedly a year behind — and ambient computing raises hard questions for enterprise security.
Anthropic opened its fourth Asia-Pacific office in Sydney on 10 March 2026, naming a former Snowflake ANZ/ASEAN executive as ANZ general manager and flagging interest in local Australian compute.
Anthropic closed a $3.5 billion Series E funding round in early 2025 — one of the largest private AI funding rounds on record — bringing its valuation to approximately $61.5 bil…
NVIDIA has deepened its commitment to Singapore's AI ecosystem with the opening of an expanded NVIDIA AI Technology Centre (NVAITC) at the National University of Singapore. The …