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Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows

Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety monitor on board, across 54 different cars.

Two days earlier, a passenger filmed one of those cars driving straight through a line of plastic bollards.

What the tracking shows, and who did it

A crowdsourced project called Robotaxi Tracker logged the rides. Its creator, Ethan McKanna, told The Verge that all 170 monitored rides over two weeks ran unsupervised. “Austin has seemingly stopped supervised rides for a couple weeks now,” he said. Plates previously marked as supervised are now offering unsupervised rides, he added.

One disclosure belongs at the top rather than buried. McKanna spent this summer interning with Tesla’s own Robotaxi team, as The Verge reports. That does not make his data wrong, and Tesla publishes nothing...

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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Corporate expense management platform Ramp is hot on the heels of Stripe in setting up toll houses for AI inference. Ramp on Wednesday evening launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models through an API. The

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FDA considers doctor-like ‘competency-based’ tests for medical generative AI

Westy72/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 20, 2026 12:42 PM ET The Trump administration released ideas for regulating large language models used in health care as companies roll out chatbots to help patients manage mental health, diabetes and other medical conditions. * FDA * Health Tech The

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Boon for Boomers, Bane for Power Users: Google Starts Rolling Out New Android Sideloading Rules

Google is gradually rolling out its controversial new Advanced Flow for installing apps from developers who haven't finished identity verification. When Google first started looking at changing Android's app verification rules last year, users feared that they'd no longer have the option to sideload

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Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Amazon Web Services

AI agents can automate complex workflows but might take actions that don’t align with your organization’s policies or regulatory constraints if used without proper controls. To address this, we built Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so teams can implement controls that are applied across agents running in Amazon

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