Welcome back to week in review! A lot of news for you this week-run Kalanick may be back to the world of self-driving vehicles, Coreweave’s Director General is now worth $ 10 billion, Apple users are not happy about how the company advertises its new movie “F1” and much more.
A quick note that we will leave next week for the July 4th holiday. Have a nice weekend!
And another: Meta inserted a key openai explorerTrapit Bansal, to accelerate his new AI -superior team. He is the same guy who helped trigger Openai’s reasoning model along with Ilya Sutskever. While Zuckerberg rolls the red carpet (and probably a giant salary), Meta’s brain new squad is forming to be who is who of ai -talent Posted by rival laboratories.
Revolutionary doors: Travis Kalanick Could plot their return to the self-driving car gameThis -sometimes trying to buy Pony Ai’s American arm, with some help from Uber, according to The New York Times. The move would mark a full circular moment for the Uber founder, who cooks ghost kitchens since the dismissal in 2017 and now seems ready to go back to autonomous vehicles.
A federal judge recently handed over to AI companies a major legal victory: Copyrighted Book Training Without Permission can count as fair use. Creators roll off the blow, but the court will still process the alleged use of anthropic books to build a “central library” of everything ever written.
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Fashion forward: Google has released a new experimental program called Doppl, which Allows you to almost try clothes with an AI-generated version of yourselfall of one photo. You can mix and match aspects of successful findings, social media or your camera roll, and even generate short videos to see how your new suit will move in real life.
Out in the Nevada Desert: Redwood Materials by JB Straubel ignited the switch on the largest microgide in North Americapowered by 805 retired EV batteries and nutrition of AI data center. With its new business, Redwood Energy, Straubel turns out yesterday’s car batteries into tomorrow’s clean, profitable source. And it may exceed the company’s core recycle business in the process.
To the moon: CEO of Coreweave Michael Intrator is Now worth jaw dropping $ 10 billionJust months after the wrong ship of his AI -Nuba company. What has begun as a scraped crypto mining is now GPU-fed AI power serving Openai and Microsoft. But with $ 8.8 billion of debt and eye-water interest rates, it’s still walking tightly.
Copyright Problems: Openai quietly pulled his splashy video Hyping the Sam Altman and Jony Ive Partnership and $ 6.5 billion device initial agreements. But not because the agreement collapses.
Never forget U2 in your iTunes: As a fan of Formula 1, I don’t mind any advertisement for the “F1: the movie” of Apple, but I may be in the minority. Apple users are not happy about the adWho appeared in their wallet -App uninvited, royal complaints that Apple uses core programs to market its own content without consent.
Oh my: Just a day after Tesla started riding in his new robotaxis in Austin, Texas, Federal security regulators already ask questions. The NHTSA confirmed that it was in contact with Tesla after videos appeared showing the autonomous vehicles rushing and pushing the wrong alley, raising fresh concerns about the safety of Tesla’s uncontrolled full self-driving technology, even with a human monitor riding a shotgun.
Thanks for the help? With AI -Search functions eating in publisher -traffic, Google is Rolling a new tool in Ad Manager called Offerwall Help websites make money in other ways, such as micro -payments, surveys or even let readers watch advertisements to unlock content. Early tests show modest revenue, but it’s another sign that Google knows that it squeezes the ecosystem.
Changes firmly: Elon Musk is reportedly fired Omead AfsharTesla’s vice president carefully on sales and manufacturing in North America and Europe – and apparently one of Musk’s internal round members. His departure comes at a time when the company’s sales growth is gone.
Ban hammer: Instagram and Facebook users complained about mass bans, and now people complain about that Facebook groups are also affected by mass suspensions. The reason for the massive bans is not yet known, but a faulty AI-based moderation could blame.
Before you go
Pour one: The iconic Windows -Error Screen receives makeup Nearly 40 years after his debut in the first version of Windows. Instead of a blue screen of death, users will now show a black screen of death. Rip to real.
