The Verge

Rivian’s software chief thinks you don’t need CarPlay or buttons

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today, I’m talking with Wassym Bensaid, the chief software officer at Rivian, and the co-CEO of Rivian’s ...
Autoblog

Rivian Says AI Will Make Apple CarPlay And Buttons Obsolete

Rivian’s software chief thinks buttons shouldn’t be the primary way of interacting with the car. Rivian’s software chief predicts AI will render CarPlay, Android Auto, and buttons obsolete. Bensaid ...
Carscoops

Rivian Won’t Add Buttons Back, Says You Should Talk To Your Car Instead

Some automakers have caved to buyer demand and started bringing physical buttons back, including VW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Hyundai. Rivian, on the other hand, has no interest in joining them, ...
USA Today

Press Advantage Introduces Share of Voice Metrics for AI Search as the New Benchmark Agencies Should Be Measuring for Their Clients

Press Advantage, a leading press release distribution service, has introduced a new framework for measuring brand visibility that reflects the fundamental shift in how consumers discover information ...
The Daily Gazette

Glen justice, county employee charged after panic button pressed

FONDA — A Montgomery County Department of Public Works employee and Glen Town Court justice was charged with falsely reporting an incident after after a panic alarm was activated at the County Clerk's ...
TechCrunch

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them

In 2026, you cannot pry AI coding tools out of developers’ vise grip, researchers have discovered. But while AI is undoubtedly helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, ...
Forbes

AI Is Eroding Critical Thinking At Work. The Window Is Closing.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. As AI becomes embedded in workplace tools, new research documents how workers are ...
New York Magazine

Republicans Are Lost in the AI Wilderness

Going into the midterms, the bipartisan backlash against AI gives Democrats a number of politically attractive options. They can try to tap into the growing opposition to data centers, particularly in ...
Nature

Semantic architectures for domain-specific programming AI agents: lessons from a JavaScript semantic assistant

This work proposes a semantic ontology-based dataset leveraging fine tuning large language model to facilitate JavaScript debugging and domain-specific code generation. Ontology is used to train the ...
Mashable

Microsoft launches new MAI family of AI models for reasoning, voice, coding, and images

Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference on Tuesday to announce a new family of in-house AI models, alongside a slew of other news. The announcements, delivered during CEO Satya Nadella's ...
The Verge

YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them

And it’s going to be more proactive about identifying photorealistic AI videos. And it’s going to be more proactive about identifying photorealistic AI videos. is a news writer focused on creative ...
Los Angeles Times

Martin Scorsese is betting on AI to transform the storyboarding process

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is joining the ranks of entertainment industry power players embracing ...