TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo’s Big Apple score and Nvidia backs Nuro
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The Download: squeezing more metal out of aging mines, and AI’s truth crisis
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. Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a…
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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5
Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face.
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OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments
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Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acquihire
The former Adept CEO said he hopes to be “remembered more as “an AI research innovator” than a “a deal structure innovator.”
The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants
While Intel says the government is making an “$8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock,” the administration does not appear to be committing new funds.
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Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models
Meta’s Chief AI Officer said that the company is partnering with Midjourney to license its AI image and video model technology.