GM’s Cruise to begin testing autonomous vehicles in California

(Reuters) – General Motors’ self-driving unit Cruise said on Thursday it will begin supervised testing with up to five autonomous vehicles in fall this year in California’s Bay Area. Cruise will deploy several manual mapping vehicles in Sunnyvale and Mountain View, following which the testing will start, it said in a post on social media platform…

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Amazon adds chatbot for its sellers, boosting automation

By Greg Bensinger (Reuters) – Amazon.com announced on Thursday a new artificial intelligence application that it says will help its independent sellers with sales metrics, inventory maintenance and product advertising, among other things. The move is part of a broader Big Tech effort to employ the technology for greater automation. The software, dubbed Amelia, can…

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