Episode Details

A concise catch-up on today’s AI news: Waymo rolls out a new benchmark for comparing robotaxi behavior to human drivers, the EU orders WhatsApp to reopen access for rival AI assistants while an antitrust probe continues, and a new research benchmark tries to measure whether agents can actually handle messy real-world work.

Covered in this episode:
- Waymo says it built a new benchmark to compare robotaxis with human drivers in crash scenarios
- The European Commission orders WhatsApp to restore free access for rival AI chatbots during an ongoing antitrust investigation
- T1-Bench proposes a more realistic benchmark for multi-scenario AI agents
- Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a public Mythos-class model with high-risk guardrails
- NVIDIA says its confidential computing GPUs are being used in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute expansion to Google Cloud
- GM links EV batteries, energy storage, and vehicle-to-grid plans to rising power demand from AI data centers

Source links:
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/waymo-says-it-built-a-better-benchmark-for-comparing-robotaxis-to-humans/
- https://www.theverge.com/tech/947516/meta-whatsapp-eu-third-party-ai-chatbot-ban-order
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11070v1
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/anthropics-claude-fable-5-is-a-version-of-mythos-the-public-can-access-today/
- https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-confidential-computing-apple-private-cloud-compute/
- https://www.theverge.com/transportation/946820/gm-energy-ev-v2g-storage-sodium-ion