You're tuned in to Tech Beat, your daily look at what's moving in the world of technology.
Waymo is expanding its footprint in California, receiving permission to offer commercial robotaxi rides in Sacramento and San Diego, while also growing its presence across more of the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. It's a significant regulatory win for the company, and a sign that autonomous vehicle services are quietly becoming part of everyday urban life.
Shifting to the world of AI security, researchers have published new work examining the risks posed by malicious skill files in coding agents — essentially asking what happens when the tools we hand to AI systems have been tampered with. As coding agents take on more autonomous tasks, the attack surface grows in ways that aren't always obvious, and this research is an early attempt to map that terrain honestly.
And Mark Zuckerberg has joined the growing tradition of tech executives writing lengthy AI manifestos. The BBC reports he's the latest to put out a sweeping letter, thousands of words long, laying out a vision for where artificial intelligence is headed. Whether these documents shape the future or simply shape perception is a question worth sitting with.
Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
