In what appears to be a vehicle recall epidemic, the self-driving car service Waymo has issued a software recall after two of its vehicles collided with a tow truck in December. A tow truck was pulling a pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona when a Waymo vehicle's camera sensor allegedly misjudged the truck's location, causing the collision. The truck continued driving and was hit a few minutes later by a second Waymo vehicle – there were no passengers in either Waymo vehicle at the time of the accident. Waymo announced the recall in a blog post on Tuesday, repeatedly calling the incident a'rare event' and said it had immediately started rolling out a software update to its entire fleet of autonomous vehicles. The company said it reported the crashes to the Phoenix Police Department, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, and the NHTSA and conducted an internal review of the two incidents.

Seven people, including three children, were killed in a Russian drone attack on a gas station in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday. A missile strike on the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border on Thursday killed six people, including a child, and injured 18 others, a Russian official said. It was the latest in exchanges of long-range missile and rocket fire in Russia's war on Ukraine. Hours earlier, Russia fired two dozen cruise and ballistic missiles at a broad area of Ukraine, hitting multiple regions after a midnight strike in Ukraine's northeast killed five people in an apartment building, authorities said. Five of the 18 people injured in Belgorod, a city of around 340,000 people, were children, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.

A month ago, the consulting company Accenture presented a potential client an unusual and attention-grabbing pitch for a new project. Instead of the usual slide deck, the client saw deepfakes of several real employees standing on a virtual stage, offering perfectly delivered descriptions of the project they hoped to work on. "I wanted them to meet our team," says Renato Scaff, a senior managing director at Accenture who came up with the idea. "It's also a way for us to differentiate ourselves from the competition." The deepfakes were generated--with employees' consent--by Touchcast, a company Accenture has invested in that offers a platform for interactive presentations featuring avatars of real or synthetic people.

Kirk Lippold discusses the reported three U.S. strikes against Houthis in Yemen on'Your World.' Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthis, and are now more regularly also defending against a new threat -- fast unmanned vessels that are fired at them through the water. While the Houthis have launched unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the past against Saudi coalition forces that have intervened in Yemen's civil war, they were used for the first time against U.S. military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea on Jan. 4. In the weeks since, the Navy has had to intercept and destroy multiple USVs. It's "more of an unknown threat that we don't have a lot of intel on, that could be extremely lethal -- an unmanned surface vessel," said Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, commander of Carrier Strike Group Two, of which the Eisenhower is the flagship. The Houthis "have ways of obviously controlling them just like they do the (unmanned aerial vehicles), and we have very little little fidelity as to all the stockpiles of what they have USV-wise," Miguez said.

Ukraine changed its military leadership and announced a change of tactics in the past week, as a vote in the US Senate brought renewed hope of US aid for the embattled country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed ground forces commander Oleksandr Syrskii as commander-in-chief of the armed forces on February 8. Zelenskyy reportedly asked the outgoing Valery Zaluzhny to "continue to be part of the team", without specifying what that meant. "We stood against a vile and powerful enemy. Endured together," wrote Zaluzhny, an immensely popular general who stopped Russia's invasion in February 2022 and ordered a counterattack in August that year, which claimed more than 1,500sq km (580sq miles) Since then, Ukrainian forces have become bogged down in positional warfare. A counteroffensive last summer failed to achieve its goal of cutting the Russian front in two.

Former New Mexico sheriff and current U.S. Senate candidate Manuel Gonzales III tells'Fox & Friends First' about his decision to join the Republican Party. New Mexico's Democrat-led House of Representatives narrowly rejected a bill Wednesday that would have guaranteed paid time off for workers to cope with serious illnesses or care for newborns and loved ones, amid concern about companies' opposition in an election year. The proposal failed 34-36 on a final vote that would have sent the bill to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, whose 2019 executive order established paid family leave of up to 12 weeks for state employees. Thirteen states and Washington, D.C. currently guarantee paid leave. New Mexico already requires employers to provide paid sick leave to workers under a 2021 law.

NVIDIA is doing very well for itself, so much so that the chip maker has overtaken Alphabet, Google's parent company, to become the third most valuable company in the United States, Reuters reports. The news comes almost immediately after NVIDIA pushed past Amazon in the rankings, with the company now valued at 1.83 trillion. Worldwide, it sits in fourth, behind American companies Microsoft ( 3.04 trillion) and Apple ( 2.84 trillion) and the Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco ( 2.07 trillion). AI's boom over the last year is largely to thank for NVIDIA's jump in valuation, with about 80 percent of the high-end chip market in its hands. It created the H100 chip, which powers LLMs at OpenAI, Amazon, Meta and more.

There seems to be no stopping Nvidia's scorching rally. The day after surpassing the market value of Amazon, the chip giant has now overtaken Alphabet as well. Shares of Nvidia rose 2.5% on Wednesday, closing with a market capitalization of about 1.83 trillion, and topping the search giant's value of roughly 1.82 trillion, data shows. With the gain, the chipmaker has become the world's fourth-most valuable company. Saudi Aramco, valued at about 2 trillion, looms as the next milestone.

Ukraine said it critically damaged the Caesar Kunikov, a Russian landing warship, off occupied Crimea, in a drone attack, the latest blow to the Russian navy's Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine said the ship, one of Russia's newest vessels, had a crew of 87 and had taken part in wars in Georgia and Syria as well as Ukraine. There was no official comment from Russia on the attack. Newly-appointed Ukrainian armed forces chief Oleksandr Syrskyii visited troops fighting around the key flashpoint of Avdiivka on the eastern front line, and described the situation as "extremely complex and stressful". Syrskyii, who was accompanied by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, said Russian forces had "a numerical advantage in personnel".

Last week, a special counsel report looking into President Biden's handling of classified documents described the president's memory as "poor," with "significant limitations." Speculation about Biden's cognitive state immediately followed. In its coverage, Fox News featured a doctor--not Biden's--who said the president had symptoms of age-related dementia. Also stopping by the network was Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who said Biden either had dementia or should be charged with a crime. Some Democrats, in response, pointed not just to Donald Trump's own mishandling of classified documents, but to the former president's memory lapses.