Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

We've moved past the era of "ChatGPT wrappers" (thank God), but the industry still treats autonomous agents like they're just ...
SlashGear

US Navy's New Autonomous Ships Are Designed To Be Built At Rapid Speed

The United States Navy is the most powerful blue-water navy in the world, and it takes a lot to keep it running. While the Navy's aircraft carriers, submarines, and other various types of modern ...
The New York Times

Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack.

In San Francisco, some passengers of autonomous taxis have experienced an unexpected hazard: being stuck in the vehicles when the cars are assaulted. Self-driving ...
Foreign Affairs

The Autonomous Battlefield

The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern ...
TechCrunch

Nuro is testing its autonomous vehicle tech on Tokyo’s streets

Nuro, the Silicon Valley-based startup backed by Nvidia, Uber, and SoftBank, is testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Japan. Toyota Prius vehicles equipped with Nuro’s self-driving software — ...
Yahoo

Anthropic wanted the Pentagon to agree not to use its AI for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. So Trump ordered the government to stop using it altogether.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Nathan ...
techtimes

Perplexity Unveils 'Computer,' Autonomous Multi-Agent AI That Plans, Builds, Executes Complex Tasks

AI agents speed up tasks while allowing people to focus on other complicated tasks. Perplexity, for instance, has caught up in this game by unveiling its newest AI agent named "Computer." The ...
New Atlas

Liberty Class autonomous naval ships can be cranked out like sausages

A new naval autonomous ship project isn’t much to write home about these days, but the new Liberty Class being developed by Blue Water Autonomy in partnership with Damen Shipyards stands out because ...
Fast Company

Anthropic’s autonomous weapons stance could prove out of step with modern war

Much of the AI world is watching closely as Anthropic tangles with the Pentagon over how the government can use the Claude models. Anthropic has a $200 million contract with the Pentagon, but the ...
CNET

Waymo's Autonomous Ride Service Expands to New Cities

Tyler is a writer for CNET covering laptops and video games. He's previously covered mobile devices, home energy products and broadband. He came to CNET straight out of college, where he graduated ...
Dallas Observer

Who’s Driving That? Waymo Driverless Cars Now Roving Dallas, Houston

After months of testing, driverless rideshare company Waymo is carrying Dallas passengers in fully autonomous vehicles for the first time this week. Going back as far as November, people in and around ...
Gothamist

Port Authority to test self-driving shuttle buses at Newark Airport this spring

Planes, AirTrains and self-driving automobiles. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it will test several models of zero-emissions autonomous vehicles at Newark Liberty International ...