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Nevada just cleared the way for Tesla, Uber and Waymo to flood Las Vegas with thousands of robotaxis at once, and even Tesla’s own engineers admit the real number on the road will likely be far smaller than the ceiling they were just handed.
Today we are covering:
Tesla, Uber and Waymo win approval to run up to 8,000 combined robotaxis in the Las Vegas area
ChatGPT adds an Apple Messages integration on Mac, letting it read and send iMessages with approval
DeepSeek unveils a multimodal test model it says nears Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on agentic tasks
