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Amazon-owned Zoox’s 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear

A regulatory cap limiting Zoox to 100 robotaxis in Nevada is set to expire this month, clearing the way for the Amazon-owned company to expand its commercial fleet of custom-built robotaxis in Las Vegas just as competition heats up.

The Nevada Transportation Authority permit that imposed the 100-vehicle cap is set to expire September 25, TechCrunch has learned. An NTA official and a Zoox spokesperson confirmed the change, which is also outlined in an updated permit.

This doesn’t mean Las Vegas is about to be inundated with hundreds of Zoox robotaxis. But it does give Zoox more freedom to grow — and at a critical moment. Waymo recently launched a commercial service in Las Vegas, while Tesla and Uber have secured their own driverless ride-hailing permits.

Today, Zoox has about 100 custom-built robotaxis — cube-like vehicles that lack steering wheels and pedals — spread across four U.S. cities, including...

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This $1.7 Million Solid Gold Fanless PC Is The Ultimate Flex

As we plebeians continue to struggle to afford hardware prices nowadays, one ultra-wealthy enthusiast has redefined lavish luxury by ordering a custom, solid-gold mini PC valued at approximately $1.7 million. Talk about rubbing it in our face. Basically, the creation replaces a Kubb Fanless mini PC aluminum shell with

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'Developers Won't Trust Someone Who Can't Build With the Tool,' Says Anaconda's Brian Turcotte

Let's start with you. Who are you, what do you do, and what does your company build? I'm Brian Turcotte, a founding Developer Relations Engineer at Kilo, which was recently acquired by Anaconda. Kilo is an open-source AI coding agent available as VS Code and JetBrains

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South Florida's Hotel Boom Puts EV Charging Into the Parking Budget

Miami-Dade County is on track to add 1,954 hotel rooms in 2026, the fifth-highest total among U.S. markets, according to CoStar projections reported by Miami Today. Just up the coast, the 801-room Omni Fort Lauderdale Hotel opened in December near the Broward County Convention Center, adding another major

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When Your AI SRE Runs Out of Telemetry: The Missing-Evidence Problem in Production Debugging

AI SRE systems are getting much better at the first half of incident investigation. An agent can receive an alert, inspect metrics, search logs, follow distributed traces, check recent deployments, read source code, retrieve runbooks, and compare the current failure with previous incidents. With enough integrations, it can gather in

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This $1.7 Million Solid Gold Fanless PC Is The Ultimate Flex

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South Florida's Hotel Boom Puts EV Charging Into the Parking Budget

When Your AI SRE Runs Out of Telemetry: The Missing-Evidence Problem in Production Debugging