Uber partners with China's Pony.ai for 2,000 robotaxis in Europe
Uber and Pony.ai plan to deploy 2,000 Pony.ai self-driving taxis across Europe and expand the partnership to the Middle East.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
Uber and Pony.ai plan to deploy 2,000 Pony.ai self-driving taxis across Europe and expand the partnership to the Middle East.
Aug 14, 2026 ·CNBC
Dicio is an on-device, privacy-by-design free and open-source Android voice assistant that can handle many basic tasks (including hands-free calling) without sending input/output to a third party.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Public model repositories grew from 2.43M to 2.96M, datasets from 711K to 1M, and Spaces from 1.00M to 1.44M from January to August 2026, but the usage distribution remains highly skewed with 85.6% of models getting fewer than 200 lifetime downloads and 1.5% of repositories accounting for 99.2% of all downloads.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Flock Safety cut automatic license plate reader retention from 30 days to seven days, but added an evidence mode that can let police hold data indefinitely for active investigations and created exceptions that keep most existing contracts on their prior retention periods.
Aug 13, 2026 ·
CNET
CASETiFY’s iPhone case lineup breaks protection into tiers—Impact (8.2 ft/2.5 m, 4X MIL-STD-810G), Bounce (21.3 ft/6.5 m, 7X), and Ultra Bounce (32.8 ft/10 m, 10X)—so most office users can choose slim “everyday” protection while outdoor, active users should step up to Bounce or Ultra Bounce for higher drop resistance.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNET
OpenAI’s proprietary ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux preview is available via DEB and RPM packages for Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44 (x86-64 and Arm64), but the article’s tester says it produced materially inaccurate technical details and the app didn’t reliably show their “shell jobs” in the desktop app’s project list.
Aug 13, 2026 ·ZDNet
S&P 500 companies’ blended net profit margin is 16.9% in Q2, up from 14.8% in Q1 and 12.9% a year ago (above the 12.4% five-year average), which would be the highest since FactSet began tracking in 2009.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Galaxy Z Flip 8 is advertised at $1,200 across major retailers, with savings up to $1,100 at T-Mobile (via eligible trade-in or a new line) and up to $600 trade-in credits at Amazon and Best Buy.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNET
Please paste the article text (beyond the CNBC footer/boilerplate) so I can extract the specific, checkable facts—e.g., the size/date of Bill Ackman’s Netflix buy and any stated performance or streaming-wars claims.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Get a 65-inch LG OLED B6 TV for $1,000 (down from $1,400) and claim a free $150 LG S30A 2.1-channel soundbar by clicking “Claim free item” below the price and adding both items to your cart.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNET
LG’s 65-inch B6 OLED TV is $800 off, dropping from about $2,000 to $1,200 for a limited-time deal (about 40% off).
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNET
The walkthrough describes a continuous Strands Robots data loop that records LeRobot-format robot demonstrations into a Hugging Face Storage Bucket, streams the dataset straight from the Hub for training without downloading it in full, and then deploys the trained checkpoint back to the robot with one keyword argument change.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Google is removing Assistant as an Android option in September, leaving Gemini as the only official hands-free voice option for Android Auto calling.
Aug 13, 2026 ·ZDNet
Iran’s central bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati said Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, with Hemmati seeking bilateral and trilateral monetary cooperation with BRICS member states.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Apple is exploring expanding its wearable lineup beyond Apple Watch—potentially including screen-free fitness bands, rings, and fitness bands—building on Apple Watch sensors and software and aiming to combine advanced fitness tracking with privacy in Europe amid the Digital Markets Act.
Aug 13, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Adobe’s Workfront adds “AI Collaborators,” letting permissioned AI agents be assigned and complete tasks inside projects, with outputs recorded in an auditable update stream for human approval.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
Samsung’s new R95H Micro RGB TV uses a panel that can cover up to 100% of the BT.2020 color spectrum, producing bold, bright colors and deep “inky” blacks that the review says can rival (or surpass) OLED models.
Aug 13, 2026 ·ZDNet
The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 includes an AI-enabled Google Health Coach-style feature set (daily energy score, sleep score, five nightly vital stats, daily cardio load, heart-health scoring, and a custom running coach), plus Gemini access on-wrist, while the Apple Watch Ultra 3’s biggest differentiator is integrated 5G satellite connectivity for off-grid two-way communication and family check-ins.
Aug 13, 2026 ·ZDNet
Steve Eisman says OpenAI and Anthropic drive about 70% of AI-related revenue at Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, and Oracle—and as much as 25% to 35% of their cloud revenue, making them a key point of failure for the AI boom.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
A multi-step chain of four SCCM weaknesses can let an ordinary domain user with no SCCM privileges reach remote code execution as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on the primary Site Server, after which all managed clients are compromised, but the attack requires network access to the SCCM environment.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
