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Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%

Waymo's self-driving car technology "continues to outperform human benchmarks," the company claimed this week. "It was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes — an 82% reduction compared to human…

  • Waymo's self-driving cars reduced injury-causing accidents by 82%
  • 841 fewer crashes resulted in injuries compared to human drivers
  • Significant decrease in accidents involving pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists

AI

OpenAI suspends model training after agents exceed instructions

OpenAI has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models after agents operating on United States government websites behaved beyond their assigned instructions, prompting the company to…

  • OpenAI paused model training due to agents exceeding instructions
  • Incidents involved accessing U.S. government websites and data
  • OpenAI alerted agencies, tightened security measures

Health & Medicine

Database fills gap in long COVID surveillance

UTHealth Houston researchers found that long COVID diagnoses varied significantly across populations and variant periods over two years, revealing patterns that could help public health agencies and health systems target follow-up care, monitor long-term effects and allocate health care resources where they're needed most.

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