Waymo Takes Over Las Vegas, AI Hedge Fund Collapses from $45B to $10B, Alibaba Crushes Video AI Pricing + 7 More
This week in AI marks a shift from purely technical to genuinely structural. A major technology philanthropist floated a robot tax and Human Reserved job categories, signaling that even tech insiders now believe we need legal guardrails for AI-driven labor displacement, not just market forces. That conversation sits alongside some of the most concrete AI deployments we've seen yet. Las Vegas just cleared Waymo and a Chinese competitor to operate thousands of driverless robotaxis commercially with no human safety monitor on board, making it the largest autonomous vehicle deployment in US…
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