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Driverless Trucks Are Now Making Freight Runs in Texas, and This Is the Company Doing It

Earlier this month, Aurora Innovation kicked off driverless truck operations in Texas, starting off with a freight route between Dallas and Houston for commercial customers. The SAE Level 4 trucks, operating without a safety driver in the cab, have been making the 250-mile route that has been the focus of quite a bit of testing by several autonomous truck developers, many of which have been getting driverless truck infrastructure ready.

Getting to this point took years of research and plenty of on-road testing, in environments open and closed to regular traffic, with Aurora Innovation achieving a successful round of validation testing. In fact, years of supervised testing by Aurora has already seen 10,000 customer loads delivered by its prototypes, spanning some 3 million miles.

Microsoft introduces GitHub AI agent that can code for you

The GitHub Copilot assistant, which recently gained an agent mode feature to help it compete with Cursor and Windsurf, now has over 15 million users, four times more than a year earlier, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts on a conference call earlier this month.

A free Copilot tier for individuals provides limited access.

The new coding agent won’t be free, though. It will be available to developers with Copilot Pro+ subscriptions and organizations that subscribe to the Copilot Enterprise service tier, GitHub said. It’s available in preview, meaning that GitHub will take early user feedback, the spokesperson said.

No Cubicle Required, AI Coding Agents Start Work

Coding is fast, it always has been. What actually takes a lot of time are the processes behind formulating the design structure of application and the time it takes to lay down the logic structures that underpin an application. Then there’s the time needed to perform the testing and debugging of the software, as it moves towards its final state of live production.

The rise of AI-powered coding agents has promised to speed up coding, so the conversation should now focus on what areas of the software application development lifecycle these new automations are actually being brought to bear upon.

The consensus of opinion right now appears to gravitate towards driving coding assistance services towards the lower-level services needed to manage applications, rather than any more cerebral or upper-level ability to create apps themselves. Although this statement is in danger of being obsolete before the end of the current decade, this appears to be where we are right now.

“Mining the Moon Begins”: US Firm’s Robot to Extract Rare Helium-3 and Launch Payloads Back to Earth for Futuristic Energy Use

IN A NUTSHELL 🌕 Interlune, a Seattle-based startup, plans to extract helium-3 from the moon, aiming to revolutionize clean energy and quantum computing. 🚀 The company has developed a prototype excavator capable of digging up to ten feet into lunar soil, refining helium-3 directly on the moon for efficiency. 🔋 Helium-3 offers potential for nuclear

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