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Rio Tinto and InoBat partner to explore full life-cycle lithium battery initiative

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Rio Tinto and InoBat, a European battery technology and manufacturing company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to accelerate the establishment of a “cradle-to-cradle” battery manufacturing and recycling value chain in Serbia.

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Rio Tinto to invest ~$200M to progress the Jadar lithium project to feasibility study stage; jaderite

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Rio Tinto has approved an additional investment of almost $200 million to progress the next stage of the development of the lithium-borate Jadar project in Serbia. Rio Tinto’s lithium project pipeline is an important part of our vision to pursue opportunities which are part of the transition to a low-carbon future.

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Plug In America joins global alliance

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This goal is achievable; with more EVs hitting the market and EV technology is rapidly improving, the future of EVs is here. in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2% million EVs were sold worldwide in 2020, compared to 2.6 In addition, the adoption of supportive policies will help boost the shift to electric transportation.

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TTTech Auto establishes Car.OS unit and expands company structure

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In the future, dedicated operating systems will be the cornerstone to unleash computing capacities for upcoming E/E architectures. division, we are positioning TTTech Auto as a first-class partner for leading OEMs who want to take a platform-first approach and in the future flexibly occupy new business models in the area of digital services.

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U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

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In June 2020, OpenAI , an independent artificial-intelligence research lab based in San Francisco, announced GPT-3 , the third generation of its massive Generative Pre-trained Transformer language model, which can write everything from computer code to poetry. Already, China is. That back-and-forth worries U.S. 7 May 1999 , when a U.S.

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