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Elon Musk’s xAI highlights societal impact with Nevada incorporation: report

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.” Unlike traditional corporations solely focused on shareholder value, xAI’s legal structure as a benefit corporation formalizes its commitment to positive societal and environmental outcomes. In contrast, OpenAI, arguably the world’s most prominent AI company today, has a nonprofit and a for-profit arm.

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Hyundai upgrading Bluelink connected car services technology; Connected Routing, Last Mile Navigation

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With the new cloud-based Connected Routing navigation, driving routes are calculated on a server inside the Bluelink cloud environment, rather than through the car’s infotainment system. The design of the speed camera feature (if legal in a certain country) has received a design overhaul. Connected Routing. User Profile. Speed cameras.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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Tiny Lasers Could Finally Bring Us Really Smart AR Glasses

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When Google Glass debuted almost a decade ago, augmented reality (AR) wearables seemed poised to take off. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. Users could simultaneously interact with the physical and digital worlds.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. Spatial apartheid is legally over. Since then, Gebru has been staffing up. Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna on. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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In this environment, open models play a vital role. For the first time, these instruments establish a legal threshold beyond which models will be deemed “dual use” or “systemic risk” technologies. If models—our AI building blocks—are owned by a handful of firms, we risk repeating what played out with the Internet. However, the E.U.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

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It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Because they make driving safer and more comfortable, because they conserve resources and protect the environment, and because they bring together the mobile and the digital worlds. Earlier post.). —Prof.

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