Say "cheese": According to an unreleased version of Waymo's privacy policy, the self-driving car company is planning to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models. Users will apparently be able to opt out.
Back, back, back again: President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that endorses coal for data center power. The government will be directed to designate coal as a critical mineral and prevent the closure of some coal-fired power plants, requiring them to continue operating.
How to be rich: A breach of Berkshire Hathaway-owned private jet company NetJets has revealed some information about how flight attendants should serve Elon Musk on planes. According to the guide, Musk apparently isn’t “interested in conserving fuel” because he “wants to fly as quickly and as direct” as possible. He also likes to keep the cabin at a frigid 65 degrees.
Scooping up talent: OpenAI's former CTO Mira Murati’s new AI venture, Thinking Machine Labs, has hired some prominent names in the field to be advisers — Bob McGrew, previously OpenAI’s chief research officer, and Alec Radford, a former OpenAI researcher behind many of the company’s more transformative innovations.
Dropping Dropbox: Dropbox chief customer officer Eric Cox, who joined the company in 2023, is stepping down, according to an SEC filing. It's not clear yet who will replace him.
Got HVAC on my mind: Nest co-founder Matt Rogers knows about rolling with the punches. “Nest is not necessarily doing everything that I set them out to do years ago,” Rogers told Tim De Chant. “It’s one of the things when you sell a company.” But Rogers hasn’t been able to shake his obsession with HVAC.
Stick a fork in it: At a summit exploring how AI will affect education, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon referred to AI as "A1," like the steak sauce. During a panel, she said “AI” at first, but became increasingly less consistent, leading us to believe that she knows the difference and it was just a slipup. A tasty, tasty slipup.
