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'Proceed with caution': Elon Musk offers warning after Amazon reportedly held mandatory meeting to address 'high blast radius' AI-related incident
8+ hour, 9+ min ago (567+ words) Elon Musk has weighed in on reports Amazon is addressing recent outages, including one related to AI-assisted coding. Earlier this month, Amazon's website and shopping app were down for some users, with more than 22,000 users reporting an issue, according to…...
Critical minerals demand snowballed to $2.5 trillion last year and could triple by 2030, UN projects
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (608+ words) Demand for critical minerals that power technology from smartphones to missiles could triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040, the United Nations political chief told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. "A decade ago, minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel had limited…...
Nearly 1,000 workers laid off at SK Battery plant in Georgia as companies cancel EVs and Trump Admin eliminates auto company incentives
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (424+ words) Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers" changing electrification plans and uncertain consumer demand for EVs. The company said Friday marked the last working day for…...
The world's largest tech gathering is talking about "accountability laundering"—here's why we should christen them Words of the Year
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (353+ words) But for one day in'February,'Summer Yue'became the most'talked about person at Meta.'Not for launching a remarkable new product'or announcing a breakthrough in agentic AI. She became the most talked about person at Meta for being caught out.' It…...
ComfortDelGro considers bringing self-driving vehicles to London as the Singapore transit operator reports record $4B revenue
1+ week, 5+ day ago (442+ words) Singapore-based transit operator ComfortDelGro (CDG) is considering bringing autonomous vehicles to London, the U.K.s capital city, after successful trials in both China and Singapore. An earlier pilot program in Guangzhou "has given us the confidence to scale the deployment of…...
By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details
1+ week, 6+ day ago (431+ words) Except there's one problem: all of the above happened to Tesla's autopilot robotaxis. All in one city, and all in the span of less than a month. And according to Tesla's own published findings, the company's autopilot is four times…...
An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot says Elon Musk's vision of humanoid robot assistants is 'pure fantasy thinking"
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (378+ words) While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea…...
Some Waymo riders are so lazy that gig workers are getting paid $24 to close the door for them
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (510+ words) The hit 1985 sci-fi film Back to the Future promised us flying cars and hoverboards by 2015. A decade later, we have automatic vehicles that crash into poles and require a monthly subscription to adjust your seat. Now, it might take two…...
Elon Musk bans résumés and cover letters in hiring for his chip team. These are the 3 bullet points he’s looking for instead
2+ week, 5+ day ago (362+ words) It takes hours for some people to craft a r'sum' and cover letter, listing past experience and accomplishments on a sheet of paper'details your interviewer is likely to ask you to explain face-to-face anyway. That redundant, time-consuming process has forced…...
Lamborghini CEO axes $300,000 luxury EV, chalking it up to an 'expensive hobby' with 'close to zero' demand
2+ week, 1+ day ago (474+ words) Lamborghini is the latest luxury carmaker to admit the appetite for exclusive and expensive electric cars just isn't there. CEO Stephan Winkelmann confirmed in an interview with The Sunday Times this week Lamborghini is shelving its all-electric Lanzador and pivoting…...