London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing

by News Feed Editor | Apr 14, 2026 | Technology

Waymo has started testing its autonomous vehicles on public roads in London as it prepares to launch a commercial robotaxi service in the city this year. The Alphabet-owned company has been working toward this moment for months. Waymo announced in October it planned...

YouTube livestreams will now hold back ads during peak engagement to protect the vibe

by News Feed Editor | Apr 14, 2026 | Technology

YouTube announced this week that it will now hold back ads during livestreams if chat engagement is at its peak, and if users show support with Super Chat, Super Stickers, or gift purchases. Until now, the only way to avoid seeing ads was by paying for a YouTube...

Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain

by News Feed Editor | Apr 14, 2026 | Technology

Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Dr. Murat Günel, chair of Yale Medical School’s Department of...

Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows

by News Feed Editor | Apr 14, 2026 | Technology

Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across different webpages without having to...

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor ‘lock-in’ risk

by News Feed Editor | Apr 14, 2026 | Technology

Anthropic announced a new platform last week, Claude Managed Agents, aiming to cut out the more complex parts of AI agent deployment for enterprises and competes with existing orchestration frameworks.Claude Managed Agents is also an architectural shift: enterprises,...

Google leaders including Demis Hassabis push back on claim of uneven AI adoption internally

by News Feed Editor | Apr 14, 2026 | Technology

A viral post on X from veteran programmer and former Google engineer Steve Yegge set off a rhetorical firestorm this week, drawing sharp public rebuttals from some of Google’s most prominent AI leaders and reopening a sensitive question for the company: how deeply are...