Alphabet's Waymo expands its fully autonomous taxi service to 25 cities, completing over 1 million rides per day with zero accidents attributed to the self-driving system.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin opens the first commercial space hotel in low Earth orbit, offering 10-day stays with spectacular views of Earth for $1 million per person.

IBM announces a major breakthrough with their new 1000-qubit quantum processor, promising to solve complex problems in drug discovery, financial modeling, and climate research that would take classical computers millennia to compute.

After years of development and testing, Tesla receives regulatory approval for fully autonomous highway driving in California, marking a pivotal moment for the autonomous vehicle industry.