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Newslit Daily · Aug 21, 2026

Nevada OKs robotaxis, ChatGPT reads texts, DeepSeek v Opus

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Jose Montes de Oca · Newslit Daily

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Good morning. Friday is here. It’s Friday, August 21. — close the tabs, step away from the screen, and enjoy the break.

Nevada just cleared the way for Tesla, Uber and Waymo to flood Las Vegas with thousands of robotaxis at once, and even Tesla’s own engineers admit the real number on the road will likely be far smaller than the ceiling they were just handed.

Today we are covering:

  • Tesla, Uber and Waymo win approval to run up to 8,000 combined robotaxis in the Las Vegas area

  • ChatGPT adds an Apple Messages integration on Mac, letting it read and send iMessages with approval

  • DeepSeek unveils a multimodal test model it says nears Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on agentic tasks

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