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Two national controversies — A.I. data centers and ICE detention centers — are converging in one swing congressional district. Our Southwest reporter Reis Thebault visits the town of Marana, Ariz., where some people are angry about both potential projects.

Two national controversies — A.I. data centers and ICE detention centers — are converging in one swing congressional district. Our Southwest reporter Reis Thebault visits the town of Marana, Ariz., where some people are angry about both potential projects.

The post Waymo robotaxi flood recall triggers wider service pause appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Waymo’s Waymo robotaxi flood recall has turned into a bigger service disruption than a one-off software patch was meant to prevent. After another vehicle drove into floodwater, the company paused robotaxi service in five US cities and widened restrictions elsewhere, exposing a safety problem that Waymo now says still has no permanent fix. The latest trigger came in Atlanta, where an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi got stuck on a flooded street in Midtown on Wednesday evening during severe storms. That happened less than two weeks after Waymo pushed a software patch across its fleet in an effort to address the same failure mode. By 21 May, the company had halted operations in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. At the same time, it suspended all freeway rides in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami while it works on a separate issue involving construction-zone perfor