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19 | Robb | Electric Vehicle Sales are better than ever, but, they're still not competitive on cost, and this is why the industry is reeling. “A great product is not enough in the EV business anymore. We have to be totally competitive on cost,” said Ford's CEO, Jim Farley | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-gm-and-even-tesla-are-warning-about-the-ev-market-194905657.html | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | GM delays production of Chevy Equinox, Silverado, and GMC Sierra Denali EVs | https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930143/gm-delay-ev-chevy-equinox-silverado-sierra-q3-earnings | |||||||||||||||||||
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22 | Everyone who owns an EV today, bought one because they wanted one, not, because they needed one. | https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/ev-sales-are-in-a-slump-why-arent-more-car-buyers-going-electric | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | GM and Honda ditch plans for an inexpensive EV | https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23931470/gm-honda-scrap-plan-build-cheaper-evs | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | Tesla is wokrking on a $27K Model 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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26 | For those of you that haven't been watching, Elon Musk launched an AI company called... Can you guess the name... X dot AI It is an LLM called Grok and its apparently gives you snarky responses. | https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/05/elon-musk-debuts-grok-ai-bot-to-rival-chatgpt-others-.html | |||||||||||||||||||
27 | There is an Elon tax on businesses he's affiliated with. People won't use Grok simply because its his company. The merits of the tech don't come into play. On the same token, some people will flock to it because of Musk. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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29 | Rayban Meta Smart Glasses | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Cop or no cop? | https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/new-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses/ | |||||||||||||||||||
31 | Specs - 12MP ultra-wide (portrait mode only) - 720P Video - 32 GB of storage - IPX4 water resistance - 4 hour battery life These are actually not bad looking glassess... They come Ray-Band's Wayfarer, Wayfarer Large, and the new Headliner style made specficially for the smartglasses. Over 150 different customer frame and lense combinations. | https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-collection-review | |||||||||||||||||||
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33 | The "secret" humans behind AI... | https://time.com/6296196/ai-data-gig-workers/ | |||||||||||||||||||
34 | Are click workers really the digital sweat shop behind large language models? | https://www.vice.com/en/article/88apnv/underpaid-workers-are-being-forced-to-train-biased-ai-on-mechanical-turk | |||||||||||||||||||
35 | https://www.wired.com/story/prisoners-training-ai-finland/#:~:text=Using%20prisoners%20to%20train%20AI,project%20has%20received%20widespread%20support.&text=%E2%80%9CThere's%20this%20global%20idea%20of%20what%20data%20labor%20is. | ***this is a long read, but wanted to include prison labor angle | |||||||||||||||||||
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