Episode 398
NASA vs. China, Bots vs. Truth, and Lyft’s Swagger Wagons
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In this episode:
- Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
- Musk's $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises
- Lyft’s first ‘robotaxis’ are live in Atlanta
- Amazon's Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch
- Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
- Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast
- Google reframes its statements about the "rapid decline" of the open web
- Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake'
- Grok can rewrite Wikipedia to remove falsehoods and add missing context: Elon Musk
- Virginia Tech adopts artificial intelligence into the admissions process
- “AI Inbreeding,” The Phenomenon Threatening Artificial Intelligence
- OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership
- OpenAI Realignment to Give Nonprofit Over $100 Billion Stake - Bloomberg
- Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity executive says Meta endangered billions of users in new suit
- Signal’s first paid feature adds encrypted media and message backups
- Introducing Signal Secure Backups
- Robinhood, a Broker Built for Social-Media Age, to Launch Its Own Social Network
- Netflix, Amazon Set Alliance to Broaden Connected-TV Impressions for Ad Buyers
- Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing
Weird and Wacky:
- A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
- E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights
- How to make metals from Martian dirt - CSIRO
- Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes also vulnerable
- OpenAI-Backed AI-Made Animated Movie Headed to Theaters
- This 30-year-old CEO says his AI negotiator can successfully haggle down the price of a car by thousands of dollars
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - Submarine Cable Map
- Adam - Imprint App
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