S7E16 - [AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] Waymo Drops Nvidia for Custom Silicon, Claude Automates Protein Design, and 35% of the Web is Synthetic (August 21, 2026)

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Waymo Deploys Custom Robotaxi Silicon: Alphabet's Waymo phases out Nvidia and AMD hardware, deploying its own TSMC 5nm custom chip capable of 1,000 TOPS in its new Zeekr-manufactured robotaxi fleet.Anthropic Automates Protein Design: Claude models (Mythos Preview and Opus 4.8) execute autonomous biological design campaigns with a single prompt and tool access. The AI-designed molecules achieved 22-35% success rates in lab tests, doubling the 10-15% industry norm.Pew Resear...