GM-Pilot EV charging network now spans over 25 states
GM-Pilot stations with EVgo now cover more than 130 locations The automaker also has GM Energy projects with ChargePoint and EVgo GM is also part
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Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo
On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he
Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering
Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer
Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart
The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price
AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search
German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
Isar Aerospace, founded in 2018 by three students at a German university, successfully launched a privately-developed rocket into low-Earth orbit Saturday from a Norwegian spaceport
Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
Eat more fatty fish. That dietary advice has changed the way the world consumes salmon, pushing consumer demand ever upward and production to higher and
Thailand halted more data centres than it has running
Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen reported the suspension for Bloomberg on Friday
EU tech chief says AI guardrails are coming to the US anyway
Henna Virkkunen told Axios at the G20 innovation ministerial that the US and the EU keep arriving at similar AI protections, Europe by regulating in
OpenAI’s AGI number came from a harness, not the model
OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchmark’s own software, and it scores 62.7%.
Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid
Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical
A ratings board wouldn’t let Valve release a trailer. It “leaked” it instead.
Back in 2009, Ars wrote about what was being reported as a leaked trailer for the then-upcoming Left 4 Dead 2, saying the footage “looks
How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips
Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company’s subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia’s best chips to feed China’s