Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis

The Verge
By Andrew J. HawkinsAug 20, 2026, 10:00 am115 pts
What's in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion operations a second? Only if you're Waymo. For the first time, Waymo revealed key details about the heavy compute "brain" housed in the trunk of its…

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