Toyota And NTT To Invest $3.27 Billion In AI Platform To Prevent Traffic Accidents - 1

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Toyota And NTT To Invest $3.27 Billion In AI Platform To Prevent Traffic Accidents

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager

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  • Next year, Toyota and NTT will build a Mobility AI Platform to reach a zero-traffic accident society
  • The deployment of the platform will begin in 2028, and both companies expect adoption to begin by 2030
  • The technology will be designed so that other companies and institutions can adopt it too

Toyota Motor Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced today a new plan to invest $3.27 billion to build a “Mobility AI Platform” for their mission to reach a “society with zero traffic accidents.”

According to the press release , the companies have agreed on the necessary steps to reach their goal: taking a collaborative approach to understanding infrastructure, and developing data-driven technology and future automated driving technologies.

Toyota is building a Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) with a focus on safety and security, and together both businesses will build the Mobility AI Platform using NTT’s expertise in communication infrastructure. They will begin building the platform in 2025, expect to start implementing it in 2028, and reach adoption and user expansion by 2030.

The companies estimate that the 5-year plan for the Mobility AI Platform will cost 500 billion yen—around $3.27 billion. Toyota and NTT also expect this technology to be adopted by other companies and institutions, like academic partners and government organizations who share the goal of reaching a zero-traffic accident society.

According to Reuters , both companies have been working together since 2017 when they began building 5G technologies for cars together and will test Toyota autonomous vehicles next year.

The autonomous vehicle market has experienced significant growth this past year, but also challenges and raising concerns that Toyota and NTT want to address with the new initiative. The auto safety regulator in the United States is currently investigating Tesla ’s self-driving system due to recent crashes, one involving a fatal crash.

LinkedIn Tests AI-Driven Hiring Assistant, Full Launch Expected In 2025 - 2

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LinkedIn Tests AI-Driven Hiring Assistant, Full Launch Expected In 2025

  • Written by Kiara Fabbri Former Tech News Writer
  • Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

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  • LinkedIn’s new Hiring Assistant automates recruitment tasks like sourcing and candidate outreach.
  • The AI tool builds candidate pipelines based on hiring goals and job descriptions.
  • It’s available in English initially, with plans for additional languages later.

LinkedIn has launched its latest AI tool: the Hiring Assistant . This new feature, currently in testing with select enterprise clients, promises to streamline recruitment tasks by automating the process of drafting job descriptions, sourcing candidates, and managing outreach.

This news follows last month’s criticism of LinkedIn for using user data to train its AI models without explicitly informing users beforehand .

Expected to launch widely in late 2025, the Hiring Assistant represents a major push by LinkedIn into the AI-driven recruitment space. The Hiring Assistant is designed to assist recruiters at each stage of the hiring process.

By analyzing user-generated notes and company hiring goals, the AI builds a pipeline of candidates, identifying applicants, drafting initial outreach messages, and answering basic candidate questions about the role.

The tool can operate autonomously, continuously sourcing new candidates even while recruiters conduct interviews with others.

The assistant will also integrate with third-party application tracking systems, but is primarily trained on LinkedIn’s own network data, covering 1 billion users, 68 million companies, and a database of over 41,000 skills, as reported by TechCrunch.

Currently available only in English, the Hiring Assistant is expected to support more languages as development progresses. The platform will initially deploy the assistant to large enterprises, with companies like AMD, Canva, Siemens, and Zurich Insurance among the early testers, noted TechCrunch .

In addition to handling basic recruitment tasks, LinkedIn intends to equip the Hiring Assistant with features for managing candidate interactions, from scheduling interviews to coordinating follow-ups, noted TechCrunch.

While LinkedIn has used AI in its backend for years—often in ways that anticipate user connections—this is one of its most direct applications aimed squarely at LinkedIn’s B2B recruitment clients, said TechCrunch.

As LinkedIn increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to power new functionalities, the Hiring Assistant could reshape how recruiters find and engage top talent in a competitive market.