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Seattle plans to install up to 200 curbside Level 2 EV chargers by 2030, focused on areas with apartment buildings, InsideEVs reported. Residents can suggest sites until autumn 2027. The chargers are funded by a $1.55B transport levy and follow a pilot of 58 chargers.
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Oh sure, SpaceX’s credit risk is pretty high because it’s about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger!
Teenage Engineering is branching out into instrument amps with the previously leaked EP-35, a multi-input, multi-instrument, battery-powered amp with built-in effects.
Alex Gibney says he’s been promised that HBO will air his documentary about Musk. That promise is about to face its biggest test.
Two years ago, University of Houston student Vasant Bhatt was doing everything he could to help Republicans regain power. He knocked doors for Sen. Ted Cruz’s reelection campaign and helped organize his community for Donald Trump, two victories he, like many other Republicans, celebrated in 2024.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.
The departure comes amid turmoil in Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement.
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s office-task agent, to more than 30,000 employees after a 1,000-person pilot, OpenAI said. It connects to Gmail, Drive and Slack and runs on GPT-6.1 Sol by default. The move comes as Uber tries to rein in its AI spending.
Leidos has won a $95M, five-year contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to add AI automation and cloud tools to ELMS, the Pentagon system that tracks more than 80 million items of government property worth over $140B. Leidos has supported the system for more than 21 years.
Nvidia has launched Minerva, AI operations software that combines data from GPUs, networks, storage and workloads to spot failing parts in large AI data centres early. It groups alerts into single incidents and has an AI assistant. IREN uses it, and Lambda, IBM and Tesla plan to.
SpaceX has launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network for companies that deploy or build on Grok, with Apollo, Nvidia, Snowflake, Databricks, Bain and more than 130 firms joining early. It follows a quarter in which SpaceX’s AI unit turned a profit, mostly from renting out computing power.
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