February 2024

Stellantis CEO says there’s still life in Waymo deal for self-driving delivery vans

February 24, 2024

Stellantis, the automaker that owns 14 brands including Chrysler, Jeep and Ram, and autonomous vehicle technology company Waymo are not only still working together, the companies are deepening the partnership, CEO Carlos Tavares told TechCrunch in a recent interview. This “deepened” partnership will focus on commercial self-driving Ram delivery vans, a target that was first […]

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This Week in AI: Addressing racism in AI image generators

February 24, 2024

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Google paused its AI chatbot Gemini’s […]

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Byju’s founder, ousted by shareholders, says rumors of his firing ‘greatly exaggerated’

February 24, 2024

Byju Raveendran, the founder of eponymous edtech group Byju’s, told employees on Saturday that he continues to remain the chief executive of the startup and that rumors of his firing have been “greatly exaggerated,” a day after a shareholder group voted to remove him at an emergency general meeting. In a 758-word letter, content of […]

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Is a Stock Bubble Forming?

February 24, 2024
We all have Nvidia (NVDA) to thank for the S&P 500 (SPY) finally breaking above 5,000. Truly one of the most impressive earnings announcements in years. Yet the valuation for…

Quick thinking and a stroke of luck averted a Moon lander disaster for Intuitive Machines

February 24, 2024

Intuitive Machines‘ spacecraft touched down yesterday on the lunar surface… sideways. CEO Steve Altemus confirmed during a press conference Friday that, while it wasn’t a perfect landing, it’s nothing short of a miracle the spacecraft landed intact at all. Using a small model of the lander, Altemus demonstrated how engineers believe the spacecraft, called Odysseus, […]

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