November 2023

Musk says Twitter subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok

November 4, 2023

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday evening teasing the AI model xAI has been quietly developing. Called Grok — a name xAI trademarked recently — the model answers questions conversationally, possibly drawing on a […]

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This EV startup was going to revolutionize how cars were made – now, it’s on life support

November 3, 2023

Arrival set out eight years ago to make electric vehicle production “radically more efficient.” So far, its plan to forgo the gigafactory for local microfactories has proved anything but. Arrival trumpeted how its automated microfactories would simultaneously churn out electric vans for UPS, cars for Uber drivers, and buses for the UK, Italy and California. […]

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Swedish fintech Klarna dodges a strike after reaching agreement with workers

November 3, 2023

Fintech giant Klarna has reached an agreement with workers that were set to strike next week, the company told TechCrunch today. Klarna employees were planning to strike next week in the fintech’s home country of Sweden, as reported by tech.eu.  The dispute was reportedly over the lack of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) –  a […]

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