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Tesla has begun its Cybertruck tour around China

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Despite this, Musk also said in the original post that it “would be very difficult” to make the Cybertruck road legal in China , though he did not disclose why. Tesla Cybertruck 2024 production builds to be sold out soon What are your thoughts? automaker stopped accepting orders in these markets in 2022.

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Energy Conversion Devices files Chapter 11, seeks sale of businesses; Ovonic Battery Company sold to BASF Corporation

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51-year-old Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. As part of its bankruptcy plan, ECD intends to sell through separate sales its wholly owned operating subsidiary United Solar Ovonic LLC (USO) and other assets, including its minority stake in Ovonyx, Inc. 35 OBC employees have been hired by BASF as part of this transaction.

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Stellantis Investors Fume Over CEO Pay Amid Job Cuts, Plant Closures, Supplier Strife

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General Motors has been trimming employment numbers for years and recently announced plans to abandon the iconic Renascence Center to set up shop within a smaller building. Crain's Detroit Business reported that at least a couple Tier 1 suppliers have stopped shipping parts to the automaker in recent weeks out of protest.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Heat pumps offer ways of addressing all three of the major sources of building-related climate-forcing emissions, Romanin says. In southern Arizona, where most people only use the heat for a couple of weeks a year, the conversion may not even require a subsidy to add up.

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Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

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She spoke to Spectrum about starting with the data and whether Sony, with half its business in content creation, could play a role in building a new kind of generative AI. Did you try to build a dataset that felt ethical in all the dimensions? For that one, we have several checkpoints as part of the standard quality management system.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). We also call on every organization, developer, researcher, and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” Microsoft reportedly decided against turning this idea into a product, but the company didn’t stop because of legal or rights-based reasons. Some of us may view these options as exciting. Others may recoil.