The answer is probably anyone. Or at least anyone who didn’t work for FoloToy, the makers of Kumma, a $99 AI-enabled plushie that’s now been pulled from shelves after researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund got the bear to discuss sexually explicit topics, offer advice on where to find knives, and give instructions on lighting matches. In the report, researchers said:

Earlier this week, Waymo announced that it would soon be operating fully driverless vehicles in five new cities: Miami, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, and Orlando. Today, they’re adding three new cities to the mix: Minneapolis, Tampa, and New Orleans. The company plans to start by deploying manually driven vehicles, then fully autonomous ones, followed by select passenger trips, and finally, a public robotaxi service. The vehicles will be Waymo’s fifth-generation Jaguar SUVs, with the option to add sixth-gen Zeekr and Hyundai vehicles in the future if the company deems fit.

The company has announced a UK trial with autonomous delivery company Starship, starting in Sheffield and Leeds. It’s Uber’s first delivery bot trial in Europe, after tests in various US cities.

From my colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s story about Matter 1.5:

Nathan is jumping to Linux, pushed to the brink by AI agents and Copilot, tempted by the promise of better gaming through Bazzite. This is it, guys.

If you’ve experienced performance issues in games after installing the latest Windows 11 October 2025 update (KB5066835) then Nvidia now has a hotfix driver to address the problems. It’s not clear what games have been impacted by Microsoft’s latest update, but you can grab the latest hotfix driver here or wait until the next non-beta release.

Lecun’s widely-rumored departure is official just weeks after significant layoffs affected Meta’s legacy Fundamental AI Research unit (FAIR) that he created. Lecun — the “odd man out” at Meta for believing LLMs are a “dead end” — called creating FAIR “my proudest non-technical accomplishment,” and says he will create a startup to continue his Advanced Machine Intelligence research, with Meta as a partner.

The company said that in early testing, users rated it “especially highly for writing help, data science, and business questions.” Enterprise users should receive access next Monday, per OpenAI. GPT-5 Pro, the new model’s predecessor, will be available via the legacy model dropdown menu for 90 days before OpenAI retires it.

Hot on the heels of the launch of its big Z-Wave stick, Home Assistant is launching a slightly smaller stick to support Zigbee and Thread protocols.

Rebble, which has kept the Pebble platform going, is at odds with Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky, just as Pebble is making its comeback.

Amazon MGM Studios has greenlit a new Stargate series for Prime Video, with Martin Gero as writer and showrunner. Gero formerly wrote, produced, and directed episodes of all three of the original Stargate series. The Prime Video series is the second attempt to revive the franchise after the Stargate: Origins mini-series in 2018.

Videos on YouTube make it seem like one swipe of a scanning pen like this will give you all the answers. I tested it out on math, science, and history questions.

The company was awarded a ridehailing permit by the state’s Department of Transportation, which clears the way for Tesla to launch a robotaxi service — potentially without safety drivers. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he wants to launch in 8-10 new markets before the end of 2025.

The digital movie rental shop is slated to debut in early December. Letterboxd describes it as “curated shelves instead of just scrolling lists endlessly without being able to make up your mind on what to watch.”

The AI music company just announced that it raised $250 million in its latest funding round, and its valuation soared from about $500 million last year to nearly $2.5 billion. That money might be going right back out the door, though, as all three major labels — Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group — are currently suing Suno.