The day in tech.

Uber and Pony.ai plan to expand robotaxi operations in Europe with a fleet of more than 2,000 autonomous vehicles. The partners aim to launch services in four additional European cities alongside Zagreb.

An analysis of 30 frontier model cards tracks which benchmarks labs report first. Each card counts once per benchmark, and organizations break ties. The curated registry shows reporting saturation, not score saturation. Flat score tails mark unreadable newer numbers.

Nvidia is considering a $3 billion investment in SB Energy under an OpenAI data center deal. The company has also reduced its data center guarantee to OpenAI to $120 billion.

BlackBerry transformed from a struggling phone maker into a cybersecurity and software company. The pivot shifted focus to enterprise software, securing a new market position. The company's evolution highlights a successful corporate reinvention away from consumer hardware.

A representative Epoch AI survey found 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Workers generally accept AI output with little to no editing.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected claims that AI regulation concentrates power, calling the choice a "false choice." He supports rules placing greater burdens on frontier AI firms, citing California's SB53 and SB1047, and backs testing frameworks favoring challengers like open-weight developers.

SpaceX officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion. Cursor will gain access to SpaceX's computing infrastructure, which the company describes as the largest fleet of GPUs in the world, and which it rents to customers including Anthropic and Google.

AI tools are helping patients identify rare conditions and solve medical mysteries. The technology analyzes symptoms and medical data to suggest diagnoses. Patients use AI to guide discussions with doctors and pursue targeted testing.

Amazon sells the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera with a 16-photo film pack for $71.99, down from $109.99. The bundle is $4 cheaper than the camera alone, and the film pack typically costs $21.99.

Google's Pixel 11 ads on YouTube show an unannounced fitness tracker with a display, spotted by Reddit users. The device resembles a Fitbit Charge but is not the Pixel Watch 5 or Fitbit Air. No official announcement, name, pricing, or launch date exists.