US tech companies are hoping soon to gain clearance for flying taxis that make short commercial hops like Manhattan to LaGuardia Airport. Eyeing defense dollars, they're also equipping air taxies for the battlefield. Air taxis have wings and propellers, allowing them to take off and land like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. You can't yet hail a flying taxi anywhere in the US, though those futuristic flights could be coming in the next couple of years.Pentagon leaders have shifted their focus to the ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sol Rashidi, a former tech executive at IBM, AWS, and Estée Lauder, who is based in Miami. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In the last 15 years, I have built and scaled AI capabilities, and I have over 200 deployments under my belt.I went from being an individual practitioner to running IBM's enterprise data management practice. I was the chief data officer at Sony Music, the chief analytics officer at Estée Lauder, and the head of ...

Ford is switching gears, away from some electric vehicles. In a news release on Monday, the company announced several changes to its EV production, saying it is deprioritizing fully electric large vehicles, which were not making it money."Ford no longer plans to produce select larger electric vehicles where the business case has eroded due to lower-than-expected demand, high costs and regulatory changes," Ford said in the release. The company also plans to stop the production of electric commercial vans i ...

Would buying Warner Bros. give Netflix too much power? The streaming giant is telling regulators it won't, and antitrust experts say the answer ultimately depends on how you define who Netflix competes with.Does Netflix compete with only paid streaming services, a market where it dominates? What about the TV dinosaurs it disrupted, or the social video services nipping at its heels? Could sleep even be a competitor, as its cofounder Reed Hastings famously suggested? Rival suitor Paramount Skydance has slam ...

The parent company of Roomba, which has sold millions of cleaning robots, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday after 35 years of operation. In a Sunday press release, Massachusetts-based robotics company iRobot said it had filed for bankruptcy protection in the District of Delaware court.The company said that it would be wholly acquired by its main manufacturer and lender, vacuum cleaner maker Shenzhen PICEA. Picea has R&D and manufacturing facilities in China and Vietnam, per the release. The Picea ...

A new law barring children under 16 from opening or maintaining social media accounts took effect last week in Australia, forcing platforms to deactivate accounts for swaths of young users. In the words of Taylor Swift, however, Reddit would very much like to be excluded from this narrative because, it says, it's not a social media platform.Reddit made the argument in a lawsuit it filed against the Commonwealth of Australia and its Minister of Communications on Friday. The Australian law is meant to protec ...

特斯拉Robotaxi运营进展 - 社交媒体上出现一段视频 显示一辆特斯拉Model Y在奥斯汀街道上行驶 车内无人 甚至没有安全员[1] 自6月在奥斯汀推出Robotaxi服务以来 其无人驾驶汽车此前一直配备一名坐在乘客座位的安全员[1] - 特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克随后证实 公司正在测试没有人类安全操作员的无人驾驶出租车 但似乎尚未面向实际付费客户[2] - 特斯拉人工智能负责人Ashok Elluswamy对此回应称“开始了”[2] 特斯拉官方账号则以“Just saying”回应视频[2] 车队规模与测试计划 - 根据Robotaxi Tracker的数据 奥斯汀活跃车辆数量从11月的29辆增加至31辆[3] - 马斯克在10月的“All-In”播客中表示 目标是在年底前将奥斯汀的Robotaxi车队规模扩大至500辆[3] - 马斯克在上周的一次活动中表示 计划在大约三周内（即年底前）在奥斯汀运营没有人在车内的特斯拉Robotaxi 并移除人类安全员[4] 技术测试与历史表现 - 测试正在没有乘员的车内进行[2] - 商业内幕网在7月测试奥斯汀的Robotaxi时 车辆需要副驾驶安全员进行多次干预 包括一次在单行道上逆行[5]

招聘行业季节性动态 - 年末招聘活动保持稳定甚至活跃 招聘方和招聘经理指出一个常见误解是雇主会在年底暂停面试 但实际上招聘活动往往保持稳定 在某些情况下 管理者迫于压力需要在1月人才招聘预算重置前填补职位空缺[1] - 企业存在“用尽或失去”的预算压力 促使他们在年底前完成招聘 以便新一年能立即投入运营 有招聘经理表示雇主希望“在2026年开始时就准备就绪” 不想在1月才开始招聘[2][3] 求职市场竞争格局 - 年末求职竞争相对缓和 因其他求职者暂停寻找 这为持续求职者提供了机会 一位招聘经理表示其有超过50个职位需要在加利福尼亚填补 包括行政助理、设施经理和制片人等 并预计在新年前填补至少三分之一[3] - 年初求职竞争预计将加剧 因假期暂停求职的人员回归 同时新年决心找新工作的人进入市场 导致1月份获得有效回应的几率更小[6] 企业具体招聘案例 - 皇家加勒比集团的人才招聘负责人指出其招聘团队在年底仍是相当忙碌的时期[2] - 佐治亚州的一位独立招聘人员正在帮助亚特兰大的一家人工智能初创公司在2025年底前招聘两名经理和六名软件工程师[2] - 商业房地产公司JLL的一位招聘经理分享了其个人经历 他在2019年感恩节前申请了现任运营副总裁职位 并在当年12月进行了多轮面试 最后一轮在圣诞节前五天进行[4] 求职策略建议 - 利用节日氛围进行人际网络拓展 因人们在节假日期间更愉悦 更可能接听电话并提供帮助[5] - 保持日常求职习惯能带来回报 习惯每天申请五到六个职位有助于克服周围的节日干扰 并利用竞争减弱的机会[8]

For Rivian's chief of autonomy, the decision to put in lidar for the EV company's coming R2 SUV was obvious. James Philbin, Rivian's VP of autonomy and AI, told Business Insider that the price of lidar has decreased significantly enough in recent years to be able to put the sensor inside a personally-owned, mass-production vehicle."It's been on this incredible cost curve, where 10 years ago, it would be just unimaginable that you could put a lidar on a consumer vehicle. And now it's getting into that price ...

Over the last few months, we've written about where billionaires live and how the uber-rich spend their money. What about how they invest?A new report from UBS has the answers. This year, the bank conducted its annual survey of billionaire clients on several topics, including where they plan to invest their money for 12-month and five-year periods. Optimism in the near term seems to be highest around two areas in particular compared to 2024: Western Europe and China.Forty percent of respondents said they ...