Zeyi Yang / Wired:
A suspected Baidu system failure caused a number of robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes  —  A suspected system failure froze Baidu's robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.

Bloomberg:
Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to offer a driverless service  —  Singapore's Grab Holdings Ltd. became Southeast Asia's first ride provider to start a driverless service, betting the technology …

Pieter Haeck / Politico:
The EU's main institutions, the Commission, Parliament, and Council, ban staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws  —  Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc …

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Apple says it will push out rare “backported” patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS  —  As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners …