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  "title": "Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/waymo-says-it-has-built-an-asic-chip-that-will-improve-its-robotaxis",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-20T14:35:47.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/google-s-waymo-has-built-a-custom-chip-for-its-robotaxis"
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  "summary": "Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo has built a custom chip that the company said will improve the performance of its robotaxis …",
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        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "I'm not upgrading my RTX 4090 until Nvidia makes a GPU twice as fast, and that's probably years away",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/im-not-upgrading-my-rtx-4090-until-nvidia-makes-a-gpu-twice-as-fast",
        "published": "2026-08-20T16:00:16.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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