Five years after its splashy $1.3 billion acquisition of Zoox, Amazon has officially entered the U.S. robotaxi race, which to date has been dominated by Alphabet’s Waymo.

Zoox’s first public launch kicked off earlier in September on the Las Vegas strip. The company is offering free rides from a few select locations, with plans to expand more broadly across the city in the coming months. Riders will eventually have to pay, but Zoox said it’s waiting on regulatory approval to take that step.

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Honeywell is developing a series of new cockpit alerts, known as “Surf-A” for surface alert, aimed at preventing collisions at or around airports. Serious aviation accidents are rare, but the United States is the busiest aviation market in the world, and safety experts have urged more advanced cockpit warnings for pilots. Honeywell expects the Federal Aviation Administration to approve Surf A next year. Once approved, airlines can opt to purchase it as an additional feature to its other runway safety products like Smart X already on the market and in use with Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines. CNBC flew in the cockpit of a Boeing 757 that serves as a test plane for Honeywell’s new suite of cockpit alerts.

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2:17 Alarming Close Calls
3:19 Avoiding Collisions
8:54 Advancing Technology

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Why Runway Collisions Happen And How Honeywell Plans To Stop Them

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As AI evolves, it’s brought with it an alarming rise in “nudify” tools – hundreds of apps and sites that can now easily make fake explicit imagery from photos of anyone, including children. One man in Minneapolis used one of these sites to create graphic content of more than 80 women, including many of his close friends. Three of these women sat down with CNBC to tell their stories of how these fake photos and videos have caused irreversible harm. Often marketed as simple face-swappers, nudify tools are everywhere, from the Apple and Google app stores to ads on Facebook and Instagram. It’s legal to create nonconsensual deepfakes, but now this group of friends and a Minnesota state senator is trying to change that.
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2:16 Finding fake nudes
6:40 Easy, cheap and profitable
8:50 Role of big tech
12:36 Fighting back

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The Alarming Rise Of AI Apps Creating Explicit Images Of Real People

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The U.S. labor market is showing signs of stagnation. People are quitting their jobs at the lowest rate in recent years and companies are hiring at their slowest pace in more than a decade. Now, employees are opting to stay in jobs that may not be fulfilling. Experts say fears of inflation, layoffs and a cooling economy are driving this trend, which could potentially dampen innovation and hurt long-term economic growth.

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1:27 Trapped at work?
3:09 Worker dissatisfaction
5:37 What does this mean for the economy?

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Why So Many Americans Feel Stuck At Work

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iPhone Air was the big star unveiled by Apple in early September, but inside was another hardware set launched that day: three new custom Apple microchips. Apple’s A19 Pro SoC prioritizes AI workloads with neural accelerators added to the GPU cores. Replacing Broadcom and Qualcomm parts is the N1 and C1X, Apple’s first iPhone networking chip and second generation iPhone modem. CNBC sat down with three Apple executives for the first U.S. interviews about its move to control all core iPhone chips.

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2:06 AI accelerators on A19 Pro
6:23 In-house wireless and modem
10:40 More chips, U.S. made?

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Apple Told Us All About Its New iPhone Chips And On-Device AI Plans

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