Category Archives: Business

This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing

There’s a simple reason why high-end EVs have failed to spark the imaginations of auto buyers. To remedy this, manufacturers need to revisit the days of the Model T.

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Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’

The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

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China’s Electric Vehicle Factories Have Become Tourist Hotspots

Thousands of people are signing up to see the highly automated assembly lines of Chinese EV brands like Xiaomi and Nio.

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‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

A week after Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, the generative AI startup’s new V1 video tool will make clips of Shrek, Deadpool, and other famous creations.

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Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and its move to build a superintelligence AI research lab. So we ask: What is superintelligence anyway?

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What Lt. Col. Boz and a Band of Tech Exec Brothers Will Do in the Army

Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces “force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”

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A False Start on the Road to an All-American Bitcoin

Donald Trump pledged to cement the US as the bitcoin mining capital of the planet. The president’s sweeping tariffs stand to simultaneously undermine and advance that ambition in one swoop.

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This AI Model Never Stops Learning

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a way for large language models to keep learning on the fly—a step toward building AI that continually improves itself.

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Those Creatine Gummies You Bought Online Might Not Contain Any Creatine

Sales of the workout supplement are skyrocketing. But some of the most popular gummies available online contain little to no creatine at all.

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How Private Equity Killed the American Dream

In her new book Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back.

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