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ROBOTS
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, who founded Google's self-driving project, is building a stealth robotics startup called Dulo, according to a Business Insider exclusive. A bare website says it is developing 'foundation models for hardware design' with a team from Waymo, Google Brain and Stanford's AI Lab. Thrun revealed little else.
ANTHROPIC
Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO
Anthropic is preparing to give Dario Amodei and its other founders a class of stock with extra voting power ahead of its IPO, according to The Information, matched by Bloomberg. Amodei owns only about 2% of the company, so the supervoting shares would let the founders keep control despite small stakes. A long-term trust also governs the board.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
Chandhu Nair joins from Lowe's on August 24, into a job that barely existed two years ago and now sits in three quarters of large organisations
AMAZON
Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in America and capped at 100 deliveries a day in England
Prime Air is expanding sixfold in the United States, but in Darlington it is capped at 100 deliveries a day, under accident investigation, and up for renewal on 31 December