For years, the driverless car felt like a science fair project that never quite graduated. That’s changing. Robotaxis are picking up paying passengers in a growing list of U.S. cities, fleets are expanding overseas, and federal regulators are rewriting decades-old rules to make room for cars with no steering wheels. Yet anyone watching closely can see the technology is still wobbling through a tricky middle stage where ambition outpaces what the streets, the laws, and the public are ready to handle.
A small Miami startup says it has done what every frontier AI lab has been chasing for nearly a decade. The company, called Subquadratic, claims its new SubQ model finally escapes the quadratic scaling wall that has bottlenecked transformers since 2017, and it has the eye-popping numbers (and skeptical critics) to match.
Across small towns, suburbs, and even rural farmland, residents are showing up to town halls in record numbers with one message for tech giants: build your servers somewhere else. What started as scattered grumbling has turned into an organized, bipartisan movement that’s already reshaping how and where Big Tech expands.
