January 2024

Rivian deliveries slip 10% in Q4, raising demand questions

January 2, 2024

Rivian reported Tuesday it produced 17,541 vehicles at its Normal, Illinois factory and delivered 13,972 to customers in the fourth quarter, mixed results that left investors wary and sent shares down in pre-market trading. Rivian had shown consistent growth in production and deliveries in the first three quarters of the year. And while production numbers […]

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Tesla’s cheapest cars helped it notch another record year

January 2, 2024

Tesla shipped a record number of electric vehicles in the fourth quarter to help it edge out its targets for the year. The company delivered 1.81 million EVs in 2023 and built 1.85 million, according to a Tuesday morning press release. Those figures were slightly above the 1.8 million goal Tesla announced at the beginning […]

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OpenAI moves to shrink regulatory risk in EU around data privacy

January 2, 2024

While most of Europe was still knuckle deep in the holiday chocolate selection box late last month, ChatGPT maker OpenAI was busy firing out an email with details of an incoming update to its terms that looks intended to shrink its regulatory risk in the European Union. The AI giant’s technology has come under early […]

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The Download: solving the mystery of hunger, and the climate-tech boom

January 2, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change. When you’re starving, hunger is like a demon. It awakens the most ancient and primitive parts of the brain, then commandeers…