This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 26)
1 min read
Summary
This week’s selection of interesting technology stories includes news that Google’s AI summaries, which first launched in 2025, now reach over 1.5 billion people per month, while the company is hoping to expand partnerships and offer personal ownership of its Waymo self-driving cars to expand its long-term business model.
AI is also generating significant revenue for OpenAI, with projected revenues of $125bn expected by 2029, while Microsoft’s recent advertisement featuring generative AI went largely unnoticed by viewers.
Other stories included the minimalist design of the Slate Truck electric pickup, and a new form of dark matter that could solve decades-old mysteries of the Milky Way.
Finally, the XPRIZE in Carbon Removal has been won by a company using enhanced rock weathering to improve crop yields and remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
