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Nuro has just received California approval to test fully driverless robotaxis on public roads in partnership with Uber, with autonomous operations expected to begin later this year. It marks another quiet but significant step toward a future where no one behind the wheel is the norm, not the exception.
Shifting to the world of AI-assisted development, a conversation is building around the real-world code quality coming out of tools like Claude Code and the latest Codex. Developers report that while these agents can now deliver features largely hands-free, the output often requires several additional rounds of prompting to reach acceptable standards, particularly on personal projects lacking well-structured historical code as a reference point.
And in the broader machine economy conversation, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu used the stage at Consensus Miami two thousand twenty six to argue that stablecoin adoption by firms like Western Union validates Solana as financial infrastructure not just for people, but for autonomous AI agents conducting transactions at scale. It is a bold framing, and one the industry will be debating for some time.
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