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Uber, Wayve robotaxis, Apple's costlier memory, HTC glasses · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: September 3rd,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  SPEAKER_00: expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us
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  SPEAKER_00: to supercharge your mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition,
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  SPEAKER_00: Uber and Wave began running London's first robo-taxi service today,
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  SPEAKER_00: putting the city ahead of Waymo in the race for driverless rides.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rollout starts small,
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  SPEAKER_00: with safety drivers still in the seat and approval for just a handful of vehicles
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  SPEAKER_00: But both companies plan to expand together to Tokyo and 10 more cities.
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  SPEAKER_00: New estimates suggest Apple will pay nearly four times more for the memory
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  SPEAKER_00: in its next iPhone Pro.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet the company is only expected to raise prices by around $100.
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  SPEAKER_00: That gap means Apple will likely lean more on its services business to make up
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  SPEAKER_00: the difference, especially with a pricier foldable phone also on the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: HTC brought its Vive Eagle smart glasses to the US this week,
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  SPEAKER_00: priced at $4 to $99, and built around the idea that privacy can be a selling point.
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  SPEAKER_00: The glasses include a recording light,
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  SPEAKER_00: a voice command that lets bystanders ask them to stop filming,
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  SPEAKER_00: and automatic shutoff when they are set down,
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  SPEAKER_00: all aimed at standing out from Meta's popular Ray-Ban glasses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meta released an updated version of its Muse Spark AI model this week,
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  SPEAKER_00: With real gains in coding and more autonomous tasks,
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  SPEAKER_00: the company is positioning it directly against Anthropic,
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  SPEAKER_00: OpenAI and Google as all four race to build AI agents that can work around the clock
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  SPEAKER_00: on people's behalf.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google introduced two new AI models,
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  SPEAKER_00: one focused on faster reasoning and coding and a second built specifically
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  SPEAKER_00: for cybersecurity defenders.
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  SPEAKER_00: The security focused version is already finding and patching vulnerabilities faster
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  SPEAKER_00: than commercial tools.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to Google's own security teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.