Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitations, and didn't heed its warnings
NHTSA investigates Ford's product after deadly crashes; company research during development showed technology can be misunderstood
Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
now it's pivoting to hybrids and energy storage X: Erik Grossman / @erikgrossman : Cool to share what I've been working on. Ford is getting into energy storage in a big way Lucas Aulbach / @lucasaulba...
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5B and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50B
Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence developer co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati … Bluesky: @drewharwell.com . Threads: @carnage4life Bluesky: Drew Harwell / @...
Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20s required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters
up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192 ACM Digital Library : Aegaeon: Effective GPU Pooling for Concurrent LLM Serving on the Market Rounak Jain / Benzinga : Alibaba Cloud's New ...
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year
and no one saw it coming BBC : Apple wins US F1 TV rights in $750m deal Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : F1 races to air exclusively on Apple TV next year Timi Cantisano / Android Police : YouTube TV v...
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine
it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving...
Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly replace white collar workers, a shift from dodging job loss questions
Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers’ — CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs.
An interview with Ford Chief EV, Digital, and Design Officer Doug Field on canceling the FNV4 vehicle networking project and using a domain-style system instead
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford pauses retaliatory measures like “ripping up” the province's CA$100M Starlink contract, after Donald Trump delays US tariffs on Canada
#CanPoli #ONpoli — https://www.cbc.ca/... X: Justin Trudeau / @justintrudeau : I just had a good call with President Trump. [...] Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work ...
In the wake of US tariffs on Canadian goods, the premiere of Ontario Doug Ford says he's “ripping up” the province's $100M Starlink contract
Musk part of President Donald Trump's team that wants to destroy families, Ford says — Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is …