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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday said India is now OpenAI’s second-largest market by number of users, which have tripled in the past year.Altman met with IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and discussed India’s plan of creating a low-cost AI ecosystem. Altman lauded the country’s rapid AI adoption and growing ambitions.Vaishnaw posted on X that he had a “super cool discussion” with Altman on India’s “strategy of creating the entire AI stack – GPUs, model, and apps” and that OpenAI was willing to collaborate on all three.”I think India should be doing everything. I think India should be one of the leaders of the AI revolution”, Altman said, a reversal from last year when he cast doubt on whether the country could build…
The next conservative president “must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors,” reads page four of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. To achieve this, it says, the president should begin by “deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion … abortion, reproductive health … out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant … and piece of legislation that exists”.On his first day on the job, Donald Trump signed an executive order “Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government”. Eight days later the…
Waymo has launched a transit credit pilot program in Los Angeles, following initial tests in San Francisco last year. On Tuesday, Waymo announced in a press release that it is launching a two-month pilot program in the Southern California city, which will essentially pay $3.00 credits to riders who connect to seven eligible transit stations. The company, which is backed by Google’s parent company Alphabet, will run the program from February 4 through April 1, offering convenient routes to and from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). In the announcement, the company says that credits will be added to rider…
Tesla China has denied recent rumors suggesting that the Cybertruck would start sales in China on January 1, 2025. Tesla China’s Denial: A spokesperson from Tesla China clarified to the National Business Daily (NBD) that rumors suggesting that the Cybertruck will start sales in China on January 1, 2025 are false information.The Tesla China spokesperson also highlighted that there are “no such plans” for the Cybertruck to start sales in the country next month. Rumors and Speculations: Speculations of the Cybertruck’s alleged entry to the Chinese market were sparked this month.Tesla had filed for an energy consumption measurement for the…
WASHINGTON — A White House statement appeared to endorse NASA’s Artemis campaign of lunar exploration even as the space industry is preparing for significant changes to, or even cancellation of, elements of it.The White House released Feb. 7 a joint statement linked to the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, one that made a passing reference to the Artemis campaign of human lunar exploration.“The United States and Japan intend to continue their strong partnership in civil space and on aeronautics, science, and human exploration, including on the upcoming Crew-10 mission to…
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The tiny wires of Neuralink’s brain chip implant used in the first participant in a trial run by Elon Musk’s company have become “more or less very stable”, a company executive said on Wednesday.The company had in May said that a number of tiny wires inside the brain of Noland Arbaugh, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down due to a 2016 diving accident, had pulled out of position.”Once you do the brain surgery it takes some time for the tissues to come in and anchor the threads in place, and once that happens, everything has been stable,” said Neuralink…
The Boring Company’s Prufrock-3 tunnel boring machine (TBM) recently completed a tunnel to Giga Texas, and in true Elon Musk fashion, the tunneling startup immediately transported the machine to its next dig site. As could be seen in photos that were shared on X, Prufrock-3 had a pretty cool escort as it was being moved around Giga Texas — the Tesla Cybertruck. Images of the Cybertruck escorting Prufrock-3 in Giga Texas were shared by the tunneling startup on The Boring Company’s official X account. While Prufrock-3 was being escorted by a number of Teslas in the images, it was evident…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Ethereum’s price action in the past seven days has led to the creation of a capitulation candle that might send it on another surge within the next eight to twelve weeks. This capitulation candle caught the attention of crypto analyst Ted Pillows, who noted an interesting repeating capitulation pattern for Ethereum. According to technical analysis by Ted Pillows, Ethereum has printed a capitulation candle in early 2025, just as it did in the first quarter of 2024 and the third quarter of 2023. Capitulation Candles And Ethereum Historical Patterns TedPillows’ analysis highlights that…
Elon Musk was among a number of top technology executives who met at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday for a Senate forum discussing artificial intelligence (AI). During the private discussion, Musk reportedly echoed warnings of the threat AI poses to humanity if action is not taken to regulate the emerging technology. Musk warned lawmakers that AI could pose a “civilizational risk” if not regulated, according to Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo) in a report from NBC News. Lummis said she wrote the phrase down in her notebook after being struck by it, later showing it to a pair of reporters. Other…