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Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed

After major investor Volvo decided to decrease its stake and cut funding for Polestar early this year, the EV company went in search of $1.3 billion of new funding. It raised a $950 million lifeline three-year loan from a banking syndicate…

Apple Hits a Major Roadblock as EU Targets App Store

Henry Griffiths

Apple has become the first big tech company to be charged with breaking the European Union’s new digital markets rules, three days after the tech giant said it would not release artificial intelligence in the bloc due to regulation.On…

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

Henry Griffiths

It’s 10 pm on a Wednesday night and I’m standing in Blessed, a south London takeaway joint, half-listening to a fellow customer talking earnestly about Jesus. I’m nodding along, trying to pay attention as reggae reverberates around the…

‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ and 4 More Summer Game Fest Announcements We’re Excited About

Henry Griffiths

Now that E3 is fully dead, Summer Game Fest has taken on its mantle as the go-to event for big video game release announcements. This past weekend’s Game Fest delivered, with companies from Microsoft to horror studio Blumhouse sending…

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

Henry Griffiths

A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it needed to make adjustments to its bold new generative AI search feature. The episode highlights the risks of Google’s aggressive…

OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

Henry Griffiths

In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist…

Climate Protestors Storm Tesla’s Gigafactory in Europe

Henry Griffiths

Protesters charged onto Tesla’s factory site near Berlin on Friday, as part of a five-day demonstration against the carmaker’s local expansion plans.Footage on social media showed crowds of black-clad protesters on Tesla premises and…

Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels

Henry Griffiths

Jerome Pesenti has a few reasons to celebrate Meta’s decision last week to release Llama 3, a powerful open source large language model that anyone can download, run, and build on.Pesenti used to be vice president of artificial intelligence…

1994 Was the Last Good Year—and It’s Still Going

Henry Griffiths

In 1994, everything was cool. Music, movies, TV—the cultural output felt alive. People were also very cool, or they were achieving cool by trying not to be. Anyway, 30 years ago I was not cool and didn’t have much to do on Friday nights.…

Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry

Henry Griffiths

Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could bring in $203 million of revenue over the next few years. The community-driven platform was forced to disclose Friday that US…

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