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The Verge 2 months ago 29
Amazon-owned Zoox received NHTSA approval to charge for robotaxi rides in its steering-wheel-free vehicles. The exemption permits deployment of up to 2,500 vehicles annually over two years and waives requirements for traditional controls like steering wheels, pedals, and mirrors. Zoox can now operate paid passenger services with its purpose-built autonomous vehicles that lack driver controls.
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16 October 2026
AI’s center of gravity this week moved toward something less glamorous than headlines about “smarter” models: scaling the stuff models actually learn from. AI4Bharat and NVIDIA released Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, backed by an open, GPU-accelerated synthetic data generation pipeline for 22 Indian languages. The corpus is massive—about 2.8 trillion tokens—split across 2,601.0 billion native-script tokens and 224.6 billion romanized tokens. The practical pitch is even sharper: builders can reuse not just the data, but the full prompt/quality/repair recipe, then continue-pretraining to push results on Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, with the promise that an Indic continued-pretraining stage helps benchmarks.
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