24 September 2026

Waymo: robotaxis have 82 percent fewer injury crashes than human-driven cars

Waymo published data on its driverless operations: 271 million miles through the end of June in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco. According to the company, over the same distance its vehicles had 82 percent fewer injury crashes than cars driven by humans, 95 percent fewer crashes with serious injuries or deaths, and 93 percent fewer crashes injuring pedestrians. The data was collected by the company itself and compared with police crash statistics.

The Verge ↗ Road & Track ↗

From recent days

OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $50 billion, not $68 billion - AI stocks fell

OpenAI told investors that its annualized revenue at the end of September was about $50 billion, not $68 billion as widely reported at the end of September, CNBC confirmed; the Financial Times reported it first. According to a person familiar with the matter, the higher figure also included gross revenue of OpenAI's partners, a presentation that makes it easier for investors to compare with Anthropic; in the third quarter, the metric rose 77 percent. After the news, Nvidia shares fell 3 percent, Oracle almost 6 percent and CoreWeave almost 8 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite lost more than 1 percent, its worst day since mid-August. OpenAI, valued at $852 billion, is aiming for an IPO in 2027.

CNBC ↗ CNBC Morning Squawk ↗

Anthropic stripped the safeguards from China's GLM-5.3 model for about $4,400

Anthropic researchers removed the safeguards from GLM-5.3, an open-weights model from the Chinese company Z.ai, using abliteration - a modification of the weights after which the model refuses harmful requests far less often. In three public tests, the refusal rate fell from over 90 percent to 3, 2 and 12 percent, respectively. The model's capabilities barely changed, and the whole operation cost about $4,400.

Anthropic ↗ Gizmodo ↗

American voters turn to chatbots ahead of the midterm elections

Some US voters are preparing for the midterm congressional elections with the help of ChatGPT and Gemini: they compare candidates, check claims circulating online and look for information about local candidates the media rarely cover, NPR reports. Rafael Batista of Johns Hopkins University warns that chatbots can reinforce views users were already leaning toward and advises not revealing your own preferences to them.

NPR ↗

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