Waymo is heading north. The Alphabet-owned autonomous driving unit confirmed on 16 October that its vehicles will start appearing on the streets of Toronto in the coming days — but not as robotaxis. The first cars will be driven manually, sweeping the city to build high-definition maps of its road network, as the company works … Read more
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has signed a nuclear power supply agreement with Constellation Energy for 890 megawatts across eleven reactor units in three states: Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The commitment exceeds $4.3 billion (roughly €4.04 billion). It is the largest corporate nuclear energy contract in tech industry history, arriving as electricity demand from AI … Read more
Wing, Alphabet’s drone-delivery subsidiary, and Walmart will launch aerial delivery across the Denver and Seattle metropolitan areas in 2027, extending what the pair calls the largest residential drone delivery footprint in the United States. The build-out targets more than 270 Walmart stores and roughly 40 million customers once complete. Two new metros: Denver and Seattle … Read more