🎥 Bright lights, big city: Amazon's autonomous vehicle division Zoox is heading to Hollywood, with a small fleet of vehicles for testing. The company hopes to be able to offer public rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco later this year.
🤑 Funds for fintech: Earned wage access facilitators can sometimes take advantage of the population they are trying to serve through predatory terms or conditions. Rain looks to do things differently by giving people access to their wages early, through their employer, for just a small fee.
🪳 Squashing a bug: Google released an update for Android yesterday that is meant to fix two zero-day flaws that were actively being compromised by hackers. The company plans to push the source code needed to fix these vulnerabilities within 48 hours.
🐺 Dire wolf decacorn: Colossal Biosciences, the de-extinction company, has claimed it used its tech to bring dire wolves back after they've been extinct for 12,000 years. Not everyone is on board with calling this a scientific breakthrough, and it makes us wonder, does this milestone justify the company's lofty valuation?
💻 AI for good: Nonprofit Sage Future launched an experiment to see how different AI models would raise money for charity. The models weren't wildly successful, but Sage director Adam Binksmith said the test gives them a better feel for what AI agents can and can't do in this space.
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