Serve Robotics is opening up its platform to make its autonomous last-mile delivery robots available to anyone who wants to use them. The company is launching a new AV Delivery Developer Portal, enabling third-party software engineers, independent businesses, and even autonomous AI agents to access its fleet of 2,000 sidewalk robots. With this new capability, […]
Serve Robotics wants to democratize sidewalk delivery robots

Original reporting
The Verge: read the full reportRelated stories

Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week
It's the end of the road for the Apple Support Community. The dedicated discussion forum, which gave Apple users a place to exchange advice, troubleshoot, and generally chat about Apple products, has been placed into read-only mode, with a message from the company announcing that the Support Community will shut down for good on November […]

New Indian mega library rocked by scandal over 'AI-generated books'
The Tamil Nadu government has ordered an internal audit of library collections across the state.

A 13-Year-Old Asked AI About Suicide on Her School Laptop. It Didn’t Get Flagged for Weeks
The young girl’s parents allege that she used Gemini via her school Chromebook to plan her suicide, but the school’s monitoring systems didn’t know until it was almost too late.
Nvidia’s crisis has corporate governance experts reaching for the popcorn
The governance experts we talked to say nobody has seen anything like what's unfolding right now.
X launches its own clipping feature to spur influencer engagement
X is jumping into clipping, the popular practice of cutting long videos into short, shareable clips that can go viral.

Microsoft’s DLSS competitor is out for the Xbox Ally X and works in handheld mode
Microsoft is now rolling out Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR), an upscaling technology that competes with Nvidia's DLSS, for the Xbox Ally X, Xbox Ally X20, and select Windows Copilot Plus PCs, the company announced today. Auto SR is also getting some new features alongside this official release. In April, Microsoft started testing Auto SR […]