Waymo produced arguably the most consequential development in tech this week, expanding its robotaxi service into Denver, San Diego and Tampa while striking a new integration deal with Lyft. The combination instantly made it the hottest name in shared mobility, even alongside Tesla's continued dominance.
Tesla still held the top spot overall, its grip on the U.S. EV conversation reinforced by fresh product and platform updates rolling out across the week. Anthropic generated its own jolt by publicly splitting from a major tech lobbying group over chip policy, a rupture that sharpened scrutiny of how AI companies are positioning themselves in Washington. OpenAI kept pace through its continued hold on the broader AI race and product ecosystem buildout, while Google leaned on its usual mix of AI advances and platform-competition coverage to stay firmly in the mix. Motorola rode a quieter but steady wave of visibility, with launch-week product-support pages and phone-search traffic keeping its new Edge lineup in view. Hugging Face, meanwhile, re-entered the spotlight for less comfortable reasons, drawn into reporting on a model-misalignment incident that raised fresh questions about AI safety.
Taken together, the week split between hardware and mobility wins for Tesla and Waymo, and an increasingly political AI race in which Anthropic's lobbying break and Hugging Face's safety controversy added a harder edge to the usual OpenAI-versus-Google rivalry.
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| 1 | L | Lenovo | 69.3 | +0% |