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Uber Inks Deal With Robotaxi Maker Pony AI, to Launch in Middle East This Year.

Uber Inks Deal With Robotaxi Maker Pony AI, to Launch in Middle East This Year Uber Technologies and Chinese autonomous vehicle maker Pony AI announced a partnership Tuesday to put Pony AI's robotaxis on Uber's platform.

Mark Zuckerberg just spent $5,000 on a T-shirt—and not just any shirt.

The tee, worn by Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network, says “Ardsley Athletics”, a nod to Zuckerberg’s real hometown of Ardsley, New York. It was part of a movie wardrobe auction, and Zuck decided to claim a piece of his own Hollywood story.

The move is both ironic and iconic: the real-life tech billionaire buying back his fictional persona’s shirt.

From code to collector's item—some things come full circle.

Many of the technologies that define our modern world were born—not in corporate labs—but on university campuses:

- The Internet was developed from ARPANET at UCLA and Stanford.

- GPS technology was shaped by research at MIT and Johns Hopkins.

- The Lithium-ion Battery originated at Oxford University.

- The Nuclear Bomb emerged from the Manhattan Project, involving top U.S. universities like UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago.

These breakthroughs remind us that universities aren’t just places of learning—they’re engines of innovation, experimentation, and bold thinking.

The next world-changing idea might not come from a boardroom, but from a classroom.