Dec 22 (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Waymo said on Monday it resumed its ride-hailing service in the San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday, a day after temporarily suspending operations due to a widespread power outage that snarled traffic and gridlocked parts of the city

Waymo has resumed its robo-taxi service in San Francisco after a power outage stranded vehicles around the city, CNBC reported

Ramai menyangka kelemahan kereta swapandu ialah hilang sistem GPS, cuaca buruk dan kon jalan raya. Di San Francisco pada hujung minggu lalu, Tumit Achilles baharu sistem swapandu Waymo dikesan dan ia adalah gangguan bekalan elektrik

After traffic lights went dark at major intersections Saturday, social media videos showed multiple cars stopped in the middle of the street with their hazard lights flashing

"On Saturday, videos shared widely on social media showed Waymo vehicles stopped mid-intersection with hazard lights flashing, forcing other cars to maneuver around them," reports the San Francisco Chronicle

As power outages spread Saturday, videos shared on social media appeared to show multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in traffic in different parts of San Francisco.

Waymo suspended service of its self-driving cars amid a blackout that hit a third of San Francisco residents Saturday night.

Several of Waymo's autonomous vehicles were seen stuck in the middle of San Francisco streets following a significant power outage that took out the city's traffic lights

A robot then identifies the location of a car's battery module, removes it, and replaces it with a charged module, Canary Media reported. The company also boasts partnerships with Uber, Mitsubishi, and Stellantis, and notes it has deployed its technology or is pursuing deployment in San Francisco, Madrid and Tokyo

Dec 18 (Reuters) - Instacart has agreed to pay $60 million to settle the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's allegations that the online grocery delivery platform deceived consumers about its Instacart+ membership and free delivery offers, according to court documents filed in San Francisco on Thursday

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 18 Netflix is set to release a Fifa football simulation game exclusively on its gaming platfo...

You only start to feel the CLA's relative lack of horsepower at higher speeds, but even there, it's hardly lacking. That made it a blast to scoot from light to light as I was escaping from San Francisco, but it was much more fun in the foothills of Mt

SAN FRANCISCO/STOCKHOLM, Dec 16 - Last spring, CellarTracker, a wine-collection app, built an AI-powered sommelier to make unvarnished wine recommendations based on a person's palate

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Intel on Monday appointed an economic adviser to U.S

Tasks once assigned to fresh graduates, such as debugging, testing, and routine software maintenance, are now increasingly automated. Over the last three years, the number of fresh graduates hired by big tech companies globally has declined by more than 50%, according to a report published by SignalFire, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13 Google announced Friday the rollout of a beta feature that allows users to hear real-time...

The app is called Phia and is pitched as a way to simplify price comparison and secondhand shopping. "Its AI-powered search engine -- available as an app and as a browser extension for Chrome and Safari -- pulls listings from more than 40,000 retail and resale sites so users can compare prices, surface real-time deals, and determine whether an item's cost is typical, high or fair," reports the San Francisco Chronicle

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 OpenAI released its latest artificial intelligence models yesterday, shrugging off worries...

Self-driving Waymo taxis have gone viral for negative reasons involving the death of a beloved San Francisco bodega cat and pulling an illegal U-turn in front of police who were unable to issue a ticket to a nonexistent driver

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Apple CEO Tim Cook met U.S

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - When the chairman of AI chip startup Rivos wanted Intel to bid for the company, he had no need to phone the chip giant

1 through Dec. 31 for the San Francisco-basaed bank

San Francisco's Downtown Development Corporation has received $60 million in early commitments, up from $40 million at its launch in April

Since taking office, San Franciscos mayor has been on a quest to revitalize the city and increase public safety

AMD CEO Lisa Su used her appearance at WIREDs Big Interview conference in San Francisco to push back against growing speculation that the AI sector is overheating

People like to rag on the Bay Area, but mayor Daniel Lurie believes theres no better place in the world than San Francisco.

After the initial supervisory and data-collecting stage, the plan is to deploy fully autonomous vehicles, as Waymo recently did in Miami , ahead of launching in five new cities across Texas and Florida in 2026. Waymo's taxis currently accept passengers in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta, Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area, and it recently announced that San Diego, Las Vegas and Detroit would soon be joining them

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The San Francisco city attorney filed on Tuesday the nation's first government lawsuit against food manufacturers over ultraprocessed fare (source may be paywalled; alternative source), arguing that cities and counties have been burdened with the costs of treating diseases that stem from the companies' products

A Waymo robotaxi struck a small unleashed dog in San Francisco -- just weeks after another Waymo killed a beloved neighborhood cat

Passenger recounts chaotic scene after robotaxi runs over small dog Self-driving car company Waymo has confirmed that one of its vehicles ran over a dog in San Francisco on Sunday

Uber's deals span the full range of self-driving applications, including delivery and trucking. This year alone, it announced partnerships withAnn Arbor, Michigan-basedMay MobilityandVolkswagen, Chinese self-driving firms Momenta,Pony.ai, and Baidu, as well as a recent deal to create a premium robotaxi service using Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with a self-driving system from San Francisco-based startup Nuro

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, has gone on the defensive against skeptics of its $4.5 trillion valuation, down from a historic $5 trillion, by waging an information campaign on Wall Street and social media

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 27 After three years of breakneck growth and soaring valuations, the AI industry enters 2026...

The company's new feature is free for all Perplexity users in the US and builds on Perplexitys existing relationship with payment provider Paypal. The new shopping experience lets Perplexity users conduct more personalized product searches, like asking "What's the best winter jacket if I live in San Francisco and take a ferry to work?" Perplexity says its assistant can keep the context of your chat in mind as it searches for products, and incorporate details it's learned about your life and preferences to tailor results

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own, a move to bolster its proprietary Kiro service, which it released in July, according to an internal memo viewed by Reuters

With some animated graphics, CNN "reimagined" what three of America's busiest air and road travel routes would look like with high-speed trains, for "a glimpse into a faster, more connected future." The journey from New York City to Chicago could take just over six hours by high-speed train at an average speed of 160 mph, cutting travel time by more than 13 hours compared with the current Amtrak route... The journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles could be completed in under three hours by high-speed train..

"Security, development, and AI now move as one," says Microsoft's director of cloud/AI security product marketing. Microsoft and GitHub "have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that aims to address what one executive calls decades of accumulated security debt in enterprise codebases..." according to The New Stack: The integration, announced this week in San Francisco at the Microsoft Ignite 2025 conference and now available in public preview, connects runtime intelligence from production environments directly into developer workflows