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VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year – ET Auto

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Volkswagen ‘s voice assistant integrating ChatGPT into its cars will be able to converse with users in a back-and-forth dialogue by the middle of the year, the carmaker said on Monday as it presented the technology in Las Vegas. General Motors said last March it was working on a virtual personal assistant using AI models behind ChatGPT.

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CV conversion from ICE to EV is pivot of Kalyani Group’s 4-pronged green growth strategy – ET Auto

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The ICE to EV conversion, or the Repowering business at Kalyani Powertrain, is pivotal. They plan to ramp up the Group’s three business verticals – electric motorcycles (Tork Motors), power electronics, and ICE to EV conversion of commercial vehicles, and to kick off a new traction drives business vertical.

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The New Audi A3 Comes with Subscription Fees in Europe

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Paying the fee opens access to Audi’s app store, which is where users can download CarPlay and other features. The Euro A3 Sportback, which we likely won’t get, starts at around $39,000 at today’s conversion rates. Owners can also buy the features outright.

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Mark Zuckerberg shades Elon Musk as Meta’s Threads gain 10M users

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The Meta CEO also noted that Threads could be a public conversations app with over a billion people on it. “It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Zuckerberg wrote when asked if he believed Threads would be “bigger than Twitter.”

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Vulcan Energy starts its first lithium chloride production in Germany – ET Auto

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Vulcan’s lithium chloride output will be converted into battery-grade lithium hydroxide at the company’s new conversion plant in Frankfurt in the second half of the year, Moreno said. “We’re looking to close the financing in the next probably four to five months,” Moreno added.

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Frontier Lithium surges on JV with Mitsubishi for Canadian operations – ET Auto

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The deal will help finance the PAK Lithium Project mine and a planned lithium chemicals conversion facility, Frontier said, as the company aims to become a major supplier of the key mineral used in EV batteries to the North American supply chain. Frontier shares were trading at C$1.06

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EAM Jaishankar discusses semiconductors, green growth with Belgium’s top diplomat – ET Auto

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Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a telephonic conversation with Belgian PM Alexander De Croo and congratulated him for the successful hosting of the First Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels. Took up the concerns of our diamond industry. Also exchanged views on semiconductors and green growth,” EAM Jaishankar posted on X.

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