Monthly Archives: August 2025

Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars

The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.

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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules

The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 Touts Medical Benchmarks and Mental Health Guidelines

OpenAI’s GPT-5 aims to curb AI hallucinations and deception, raising key questions about trust, safety, and transparency in large language model assistants.

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‘We Hear You’: OpenAI Reinstates GPT-4o Amid Subscription Cancellations

OpenAI restores GPT-4o for Plus users after GPT-5 backlash, as Sam Altman promises fixes, higher limits, warmer tone, and more customization.

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Revel shuts down its ride-hail business to focus on EV charging

Revel has abandoned its small Uber and Lyft competitor four years after it started, and is looking to sell or return its bright-blue Tesla and Kia EVs.

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Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots.

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Amazon tops 100 satellites after weather-delayed Kuiper launch

A SpaceX-owned Falcon 9 rocket carried 24 more Kuiper satellites into low-earth orbit, bringing Amazon’s constellation to 102 satellites.

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Sequoia’s Moritz backs Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan after Trump’s ‘artless bullying’

Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz is calling on Intel to stand by CEO Lip-Bu Tan after President Donald Trump demanded his resignation last week.

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Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online

Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago.

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U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government.

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