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Waymo is using Google's Genie 3 AI to practice handling tornadoes, elephants

The generative world engine is creating unique edge-case scenarios for Waymo self-driving vehicles to navigate around and ...

Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World Models

What happens if a Waymo runs into an elephant? The world model knows. Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 ...
The Autopian on MSNOpinion

A lot of the reactions to Waymo AVs using human intervention when needed feels needlessly alarmist

Automated Vehicles (AV) are getting a lot of attention at the moment, specifically Waymo’s robotaxis. This stems primarily ...

Waymo using Genie 3 to create hard-to-predict driving scenarios

Waymo uses DeepMind’s Genie 3 to build photorealistic 3D worlds, training robotaxis for rare weather/disaster scenarios and ...

Robotaxi pioneer Waymo gets $16 billion injection to accelerate its expansion plans

Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has raised another $16 billion to help fuel its ambition for its fleet of self-driving cars to provide ...
Star Tribune

What’s it like to use Waymo? We rode in a driverless car — and would try it again.

A few weeks ago, after landing at the Phoenix airport for a journalism conference, our tech-adventurous editor suggested we take a Waymo to our hotel. Little did we know that Alphabet’s driverless ...

Self-driving Waymo vehicles set to hit Nashville streets

You might've already seen Waymo cars as they mapped out Nashville's streets this past year, but a driver was behind the wheel ...

Waymo Just Raised Another $16 Billion. Does That Make Alphabet the Ultimate AI Stock for 2026?

The company's recent Waymo capital raise is just the tip of the iceberg for Alphabet's AI opportunity.