Waymo is accepting public riders in Miami

Waymo is kicking off the new year with a new city: Miami. Starting today, anyone on the company’s waitlist of approximately 10,000 people can hail one of its robotaxis for trips within a 60-square-mile service area that includes popular neighborhoods like the Design District and Wynwood, Brickell, and Coral Gables — but not popular tourist […]

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Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off

Companies and governments are looking for tools to run AI locally in a a bid slash cloud infrastructure costs and build sovereign capability. Quadric, a chip-IP startup founded by veterans of early bitcoin mining firm 21E6, is trying to power that shift, scaling beyond automotive into laptops and industrial devices, with its on-device inference technology. […]

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Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, is an emerging standard for communication between AI agents and services used to complete tasks. By using MCP, you can expose functionality to a variety of agents, from desktop clients to autonomous LLM-based agents running on other systems. After configuration, agents take the prompts and determine which […]

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Animal Spirits: Small Caps Are Back

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Animal Spirits: Small Caps Are Back

Posted January 21, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts and ClearBridge Investments: This episode is sponsored by YCharts. Download Top 10 Visuals  here And start your free YCharts trial through Animal Spirits (new customers only) here. Today’s show is sponsored by ClearBridge Investments. International and emerging market stocks […]

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The era of agentic chaos and how data will save us

Models: The underlying AI systems that interpret prompts, generate responses, and make predictions Tools: The integration layer that connects AI to enterprise systems, such as APIs, protocols, and connectors  Context: Before making decisions, information agents need to understand the full business picture, including customer histories, product catalogs, and supply chain networks Governance: The policies, controls, […]

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One year in, Big Tech has out-maneuvered MAGA populists

Welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology and the tech bros upending American politics and the Trump administration. If you’re not a subscriber yet, and you’re interested in Silicon Valley’s adventures in sausage-making, you should do so here! It’s Q1! Surely the corporate budget will allow for it. Precisely one year […]

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