Waymo, the Alphabet-owned company, is facing unexpected challenges in its autonomous vehicle operations, including a peculiar issue where its self-driving cars can be rendered inoperable by a passenger leaving the door open. This has led to the company enlisting the help of DoorDash drivers to manually close the doors of its vehicles, according to a Reddit post.
The situation, which has been described as ironic, involves Waymo vehicles that represent technological breakthroughs. A DoorDash driver was offered $6.25 to drive less than a mile to a Waymo vehicle and close its door, with an extra $5 upon completion, as noted in a TechCrunch article.
In other news, IBM announced plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. by 2026, despite the growing narrative that artificial intelligence will replace such positions. Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM's chief human resource officer, made the announcement at the Charters Leading with AI Summit on Tuesday. According to LaMoreaux, the company has adjusted the job descriptions for these entry-level roles to focus on "people-forward areas" rather than areas that AI can automate, such as coding, as reported by TechCrunch.
Meanwhile, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready attempted to highlight the platform's potential as a search destination, comparing it favorably to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Ready asserted that Pinterest sees a larger search volume than ChatGPT, with 80 billion searches per month compared to ChatGPT's 75 billion, and generates 1.7 billion monthly clicks. He also noted that more than half of Pinterest searches are commercial in nature, in contrast to approximately 2% of ChatGPT searches. This comes after Pinterest's fourth-quarter earnings missed expectations on both revenue and earnings per share, according to TechCrunch.
In the realm of longevity, fintech-founder-turned-longevity-guru Bryan Johnson is offering a program called "Immortals" for $1 million per year, promising to teach individuals his protocol for reversing the aging process. The program is based on the methods Johnson has followed for the last five years, as reported by TechCrunch.
Finally, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket successfully launched for the first time on Thursday, carrying 32 spacecraft to low-Earth orbit for Amazon's satellite broadband constellation. The Ariane 64 configuration, which uses the rocket's full complement of four boosters, generated more than 3.4 million pounds of thrust, according to Ars Technica. The launch took place from the Guiana Space Center on the northeastern coast of South America.
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