2024-05-14
Outlook and Teams barely work but sure, throwing AI at broken things will make everything better [embedded post]
The Verge
Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employees on Outlook and Teams better coordinate in-office time, with Copilot integration coming in 2024
2024-01-26
Color me surprised [embedded post]
New York Times
A Cruise report finds its top executives' adversarial approach toward regulators led to a cascade of events that ended with a suspension of its autonomous fleet
and gruesome. William Gavin / The Messenger : GM's Cruise Targeted by Justice Department, SEC Inquiries Into Driverless Car Collision Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Cruise wasn't ...
Color me surprised [embedded post]
Washington Post
Cruise says the US DOJ and SEC are probing the company over an October 2023 incident where one of its autonomous vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet
Confirmation of the probe comes after an October incident where one of the cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet
2023-09-01
Fun reminder that musk announces a lot of things to keep Tesla shareholders happy and rarely delivers in any sort of timely fashion if at all. In this case, it's to win back advertisers. [embedded post]
Bloomberg
Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without sharing a phone number, as X “is the effective global address book”, but gives no date
It felt like the right thing to do, especially after seeing this garbage: https://arstechnica.com/... As one commenter said: “Elon Musk wants my biometric data? I know exactly wh...