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OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Elon Musk-founded firm operates a constellation of over 3,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit that can provide a broadband data service to devices across the globe, including in areas that aren’t served by traditional radio towers.

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E&T

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $44bn (£38.3bn) for the second time this year. . In a letter sent by Musk's attorneys, the billionaire's intention to move ahead with the original deal was confirmed, pending receipt of the financing and an end of the legal fight. per share.". Twitter has always denied the accusations.

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 30, 2024

The investment includes smart technology, an updated showroom, and additional office space. We have to increase production somehow so the smart thing to do was to innovate and add technology,” said Sprung. “We Sprung delivered on Musk’s promises to shareholders by building a Model 3 assembly plant in just three weeks.

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 9, 2024

The family of Walter Huang filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit in 2019 seeking to hold Tesla — and, by extension, its CEO Elon Musk — liable for repeatedly exaggerating the capabilities of Tesla’s self-driving car technology. The case was just one of about a dozen scattered across the U.S.

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E&T

APRIL 24, 2023

When Elon Musk arrived with his sink, I departed. Musk’s track record signalled this was to get worse – if he didn’t just destroy it first. In this issue, we look at the scale of the problem and ways in which technology could help – if the will to use them is there. Late last year I finally made the break from Twitter.

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E&T

APRIL 27, 2023

Earlier this month, notable technology figures including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak signed an open letter warning that AI labs were locked in an “out-of-control race” and calling for a six-month pause on all large-scale AI experiments. However, its rapid development has raised concerns among AI experts.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

All of these things lower the cost of investment for companies to deploy AI, making the technology more financially viable. General AgTech news in addition CNHI: farm-ng raised $10 million in Series A funding to scale the Amiga robot and AI for small to midsize farms. This could lead to more rapid changes in the job market.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The UK has marked the event by publishing the Bletchley Declaration, described as a “landmark achievement” that signals a starting point in the conversations around the risks of AI technologies. Some of the topics that are expected to take centre stage are fears the technology could be used to facilitate biological and cyber attacks.

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E&T

MARCH 30, 2023

Over 1,300 people, including several notable technology experts, have asked AI labs to pause all large-scale AI experiments for at least six months, in an open letter issued by the Future of Life Institute. Shortly after, Google launched a rival chatbot , named Bard.

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E&T

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Once it was confirmed that Elon Musk is to honour his $44bn (£39bn) offer for Twitter, there came the inevitable tweet. Musk will – OK, likely will – inherit a company where he has demoralised many of the staff and is regarded warily by many of its real users, particularly those who believe he will welcome back The Donald.

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E&T

APRIL 11, 2023

If inappropriate content is generated by their platforms, the agency will require companies to update the technology within three months to prevent similar content from being generated again. The rise in popularity of these technologies has raised privacy concerns.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Patents for AV technology were found early on, fueling (pun intended) much anticipation. We hear Elon Musk, for whom hard never meant impossible, laughing. Apple has never disclosed the name, or ever publicly discussed its plans for an electric autonomous vehicle. Maybe Apple thought the iCar would be too much of a risk.

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E&T

JULY 10, 2023

We have the technology. The BCIs on the launch pad are Synchron, partly backed by the investment funds of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, with trials already under way; Neuralink, backed by Elon Musk; and Paradromics, with backers including the US National Institutes of Health and Department of Defence (DoD), and family of the late Ray Dolby.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It will be a truly pan-European project allowing our many start-ups and Europe as a whole to be at the forefront of technological innovation.”. Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces since the beginning of the war with Russia.

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MAY 19, 2023

The Prime Minister has travelled to Hiroshima, Japan, where he is expected to speak to the countries present at the G7 summit about the need for a global approach to regulating AI technologies. In contrast, El Salvador has decided to promote the development of these technologies by providing significant tax benefits.

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E&T

JUNE 6, 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's adviser commented on the technology's rapid development in an interview with TalkTV, where he stated that even the short-term risks that come with AI were “pretty scary”. “You You can use AI today to create new recipes for bio weapons or to launch large-scale cyber attacks," he said.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

Of course, Elon Musk promoted this dogma by declaring all of Tesla’s cars would be “full self-driving” in 2016, enabling drivers to nap on the way to work. Note that Tesla recently recalled 2 million vehicles because of its Autopilot technology). Elon Musk talks about autotech on X.

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E&T

APRIL 14, 2023

Last month, notable technology figures including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak signed an open letter warning that AI labs were locked in an “out-of-control race” and calling for a six-month pause on all large-scale AI experiments. Concerns about the chatbot's dangers have also been voiced by industry experts.

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E&T

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a technology developing at speed and has the potential to transform the way businesses compete as well as drive substantial economic growth. Our goal is to help this new, rapidly scaling technology develop in ways that ensure open, competitive markets and effective consumer protection."

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Canadian Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

An artificial intelligence researcher at Google says fixing fairness in the technology “isn’t a simple thing,” but the world has an opportunity to get it right as the software explodes in popularity. is using the technology to reduce search abandonment, while Canadian National Railway Co. E-commerce giant Shopify Inc.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

With this move, Amazon would become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce. In the days following Elon Musk's $44bn acquisition of Twitter , the social media company laid off approximately half its workforce. Lyft, Stripe, Snap and other technology firms have also laid off workers in recent months.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

” The Tesla plant, which makes solar panels and other renewable energy technology, is not far from a Starbucks location where workers voted to unionize last year. . “They want us to be scared, but I think they just started a stampede. We can do this. But I believe we will do this.”

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Briggs Matsko, the named plaintiff, said Tesla did this to "generate excitement" about its vehicles, attract investments, boost sales, avoid bankruptcy, drive up its stock price and become a "dominant player" in electric vehicles, despite knowing that the technology was not yet there. . everything.”.

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E&T

APRIL 3, 2023

Nonetheless, it is unlikely to affect software applications from companies that already have licenses with OpenAI to use the technology, such as Microsoft’s search engine Bing. At the same time, the European Commission is debating the EU AI Act, which aims to provide a framework that would guide the responsible use of these technologies. "No

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E&T

AUGUST 11, 2022

But it’s controversial if only because it involves Elon Musk and we know from experience that anything we publish about Musk tends to divide opinion and fill our inboxes. . Perhaps that’s why more people are deliberately making the break with digital technology – in some ways. What makes the British who they are?

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

If you want to know how big the problem is, says O’Hurley, look no further than the recent Twitter spat in which prospective buyer Elon Musk claimed that “90 per cent of my comments are bots”. O’Hurley describes the app as a terminal technology “because the failure acceptance rate of this is 1-in-933,000,000,000.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

With ChatGPT being one of the most innovative AI technologies seen in the industry, [Microsoft] is clearly being aggressive on this front and not going to be left behind on what could be a potential game-changing AI investment," analysts with Wedbush Securities told investors in a report.

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E&T

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We tend to think of the future through the lens of Moore’s Law, says Liddell, assuming that technology will only lead us toward faster or higher transport. It’s less than a decade since Elon Musk published the Hyperloop Alpha paper proposing his ‘fifth mode of transportation’. We take a look at five of them here.

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E&T

MARCH 2, 2023

REUTERS/Steve Nesius Image credit: REUTERS/Joe Skipper The flight is the seventh under contract between Nasa and SpaceX, Elon Musk's space venture famous for its reusable rockets. Nasa's SpaceX Crew-6 mission launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S./

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Despite all the advances that technology has brought about, there is a digital divide around the globe: those with connectivity and those without. Moreover, nationalistic ambitions could also make space a battleground, at least a technology one, with Chinese, American and European protagonists.

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ATS

MARCH 31, 2023

Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada The person who brought the term into widespread use may know best what it means — Elon Musk first mentioned the gigafactory on a Tesla investor’s call in 2013, referring to the need to massively increase battery production capacity as widespread demand for electric vehicles grew.

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E&T

APRIL 17, 2023

Elon Musk wanted to make sure his newly won control of Twitter would ‘sink in’ as he staggered through the doors of the company’s San Francisco office with a heavy ceramic kitchen basin. Technology executives like to talk of disruption. If successful, it might take other companies of the same Web 2.0 generation with it.

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E&T

JUNE 13, 2023

One thing that all writers on engineering magazines wonder is what kind of technology guru they’d have become had the winds of opportunity blown from a different quarter. So if he hadn’t become a household name presenting programmes about cars, would May have been more of a Steve Jobs or an Elon Musk?

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E&T

JANUARY 12, 2023

Ahead of Elon Musk acquiring the company in October for $44bn, there were few signs of impending cuts. Following the takeover, Musk let go of 3,500 people. Amazon said that its cuts centred on “corporate and technology roles”. Image credit: Gettyimages. Then there’s Twitter.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Personal transport has reached a pivotal point in its evolution as self-driving cars shift drivers’ focus away from the road and towards the interior cabin, where an array of technological distractions are being developed to help them work, play, shop or socialise. The interior of the future will be bigger and much more homely than today.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

APRIL 26, 2024

EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporary Elon Musk became the world’s richest man by evangelising about electric cars – and delivering them by the million. Those struggles have become emblematic of a broader reckoning facing the electric vehicle (EV) industry.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Build Your Dreams outsells rival in final quarter of 2023 figures for battery-only vehicles Elon Musk’s Tesla has been overtaken by its Chinese rival, BYD, as the world’s top selling electric carmaker. Continue reading.

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