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Uber has committed close to half a billion dollars in self-driving startup Nuro, two sources directly aware of the matter told Reuters, detailing the extent of a major investment by the ride-hailing company in developing commercial robotaxis. Uber has been positioning itself as a platform for the nascent industry and has partnered with many autonomous vehicle companies, including Chinese tech giant Baidu, U.S. electric vehicle maker Rivian, and British startup Wayve. One of Uber's commitments is a three-way partnership with Nuro and electric vehicle company Lucid to roll out 35,000 robotaxis using Lucid's Gravity SUVs and upcoming midsize vehicles, Nuro's technology and Uber's platform.
Investing.com -- Tesla announced Wednesday the launch of its unsupervised robotaxis across the Austin Metro area, accelerating the company’s push into autonomous ride-hailing.
UK regulators ordered Google to give publishers more control over content used in AI-generated search summaries.
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<body><p>STORY: Shares of Meta rose more than 3% in morning trading on Wednesday, after the social media giant unveiled an AI agent designed to help businesses carry out day-to-day operations.</p><p>The move marks Meta's latest push into the fast-growing enterprise AI market.</p><p>Mark Zuckerberg's company said the new product expands on existing business messaging services by enabling "agentic" capabilities in which the assistant can, for example, book calendar appointments and close sales on behalf of businesses.</p><p>It said more than 1 million businesses were already using earlier chatbot versions of such agents on WhatsApp and Messenger. The new version will be added to Instagram as well.</p><p>The move hints at Meta's ambitions to compete with rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market for enterprise applications of its AI tools, leveraging the reach of its WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook apps.</p><p>The company is also launching a broader "Business Agent Platform" aimed at giving businesses the tools to build custom AI agents to help them manage their operations elsewhere.</p><p>That platform is connected to hundreds of non-Meta systems, including Shopify.</p></body>
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June 3 (Reuters) - Tesla said on Wednesday it was rolling out its unsupervised robotaxis in the Austin Metro area in Texas, as the electric-vehicle maker looks to speed up its autonomous ride-hailing
Tesla said on Wednesday it was rolling out its unsupervised robotaxis in the Austin Metro area in Texas, as the electric-vehicle maker looks to speed up its autonomous ride-hailing operation. Expanding the robotaxi service and wider adoption of its full self-driving software - a version of which underpins the technology - is key to Tesla's growth strategy after CEO Elon Musk pivoted the company's focus from EVs to AI and robotics. The service has been operating in Austin for nearly a year, where customers sometimes experience wait times in excess of 30 minutes.

Broadcom shares sank in pre-market following the chipmaker's quarterly results.

Broadcom shares sank in pre-market following the chipmaker's quarterly results.

Broadcom shares sank in after-hours following the chipmaker's quarterly results.

Broadcom shares edged higher ahead of the company's earnings on Wednesday.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has increased the size of its previously announced equity financing package, lifting the total potential raise to $84.75 billion from an earlier target of $80 billion, as the company moves to accelerate investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and compute...

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) prices are plummeting, dipping below $65,000 on Wednesday. This comes as Strategy's (MSTR) Michael Saylor sold 32 coins. Scott Melker discusses the details in the video above."The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto.Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.

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Alphabet pushes AI search expansion while advertising generated about $77 billion in Q1 2026.
Gross proceeds from offerings of Class A shares, Class C Capital Stock, and depositary shares, combined with potential proceeds from its previously announced $40 billion at-the-market program and the $10 billion private placement, bring the total equity raise to $84.75 billion.
Apple big annual conference, where the tech company unveils its new products, is next week, but one analyst doesn’t think it will push up the stock. David Vogt of UBS gave his heads-up Wednesday about Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts Monday at the company’s headquarters in Silicon Valley. Shareholders expect Apple to release new artificial-intelligence features after years of lagging behind its rivals on AI.

D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) president and CEO, Alan Baratz, joins Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman to discuss the US government's big investment in quantum computing, the dual-system strategy that makes D-Wave unique, and why superconducting "wins at the end of the day."
All three major US stock indexes were down late-morning Wednesday, as oil prices and US Treasury yie
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Alphabet has increased the size of its equity offerings to $84.75 billion, in a sign of strong investor appetite for big tech companies as they expand their AI infrastructure and computing power. On Monday, the Google parent said it would raise $80 billion, as big tech companies compete to out-build each other with AI data centers to get ahead in what executives see as a once-in-a-generation AI race. In a filing dated June 2, Alphabet said it now aimed to raise $18 billion through the sale of Class A and C shares and $16.75 billion from depositary shares.
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