🤖 Are Self-Driving Cars Safe? Waymo’s WILD Safety Stats.

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🚦Are Self-Driving Cars Safe? Waymo’s WILD Safety Stats.

• 🎤AI Artist Secures $3 Million Record Deal

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

WAYMO

🚦Are Self-Driving Cars Safe? Waymo’s WILD Safety Stats.

Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service is scaling rapidly, growing from 10,000 rides per week in May 2023 to over 250,000 rides per week by April 2025. So, how does it all work? Is it safe?

Key Details:

• Waymo utilizes a multimodal sensor suite:

  1. LiDAR: Uses light to measure the depth and distance of objects.

  2. RADAR: Uses radio waves to measure the speed of objects through dust, fog, or rain.

  3. Ultrasonic Sensors (USS): Emit sound waves to detect nearby objects when parking, reversing, or performing tight turns.

• This multimodal sensor suite is processed and interpreted by AI-powered algorithms to create detailed three-dimensional (3D) maps of surrounding environments, enabling the Jaguar I-PACE SUVs to autonomously steer, brake, accelerate, signal, and anticipate future actions (e.g., “That pedestrian’s about to jaywalk!”).

• When analyzing Waymo’s performance across 56.7 million miles compared to human-driven vehicles over the same distance in the same cities, it achieved a 96% reduction in intersection crashes, 92% fewer pedestrian crashes, and 79% fewer airbag deployments.

Why It’s Important:

• The verdict seems clear: self-driving cars are safer than human-driven vehicles, right?! This data comes with an important caveat: the sample size remains limited. Since fatal crashes are the rarest type of car crashes, there isn’t enough data to make statistical conclusions yet.

• Right now, the fatality rate from motor vehicles in the U.S. is 1.26 deaths per 100 million miles driven. While Waymo has already driven over 100 miles, much of that distance was covered in controlled urban settings. Despite this caveat, self-driving cars are still SUPER promising, but we need more real-world data on highways.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI DRAMA

🎤AI Artist Secures $3 Million Record Deal

Mississippi-based poet Talisha Jones recently secured a multimillion-dollar record deal for her AI-powered R&B persona called “Xania Monet.”

Key Details:

• It was created using Suno, which transforms brief text descriptions into musical masterpieces with polished lyrics, human-like vocals, and synchronized instrumentals.

• Suno helped transform her poetry into full-length tracks, blending AI-generated vocals with layered harmonies and melodic structures to create a seamless fusion of human storytelling and machine-driven sound design.

• The music garnered significant attention, with tracks like “How Was I Supposed to Know” reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales and “Let Go, Let God” debuting at No. 21 on the Hot Gospel Songs Chart. The project has accumulated nearly 10 million U.S.-based streams, with 5.4 million of those occurring within a single week.

Why It’s Important:

• We’re at a strange inflection point with AI and music. This situation isn’t just another viral moment; it challenges long-standing beliefs about creativity, authenticity, and ownership in the music industry. We’re starting to witness this technological shift through legal battles.

• UMG, the world’s leading music company that manages well-known artists like Taylor Swift, recently filed lawsuits against Suno and Udio for training their music-generating AI models on copyrighted music without permission or consent.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Google Labs unveiled “Mixboard,” an experimental AI-powered concepting board designed to help you explore, expand, and refine your ideas.

Suno launched “Suno v5,” a music model that delivers enhanced audio fidelity, more authentic vocals, and greater coherence across full-length compositions.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published “Abundant Intelligence,” which outlines his plans to build enough AI infrastructure to produce 1 GW of computing power per week.

Scale AI introduced “SEAL Showdown,” a new benchmarking platform that crowdsources community votes to rank the performance of frontier AI models on specific real-world use cases.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Emergent raised a $23M Series A to turn ideas into functional apps.

• Oriane closed a $1.5M Pre-Seed Round for AI-based video search across the internet.

• Cohere secured an additional $100M at a $7B valuation to scale security-first enterprise AI.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Matic (Mountain View, CA): Robotics Customer Ops. Intern, Winter 2026

• NVIDIA (Austin, TX): PD Method Engineer, Innovus Flows, Entry-Level

• TikTok (New York, NY): Site Reliability Engineer, USDS, Mid-Level

• Figure AI (San Jose, CA): Sr. Cloud Network Engineer, Senior-Level

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