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  • American automakers are losing the race to make more fuel-efficient vehicles

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  • They don't have to worry, because the Buy American provisions in recent legislation (passed under both Trump and Biden) protects them from competition by more fuel efficient foreign competitors.

  • Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times

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  • Nuclear fusion isn't the solution to the climate crisis. It's decades away, if it ever happens; the climate crisis is something we're having to tackle now.

  • South Korea: Students sue after teacher ends exam 90 seconds early

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  • These particular measures are dumb, though.

  • ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor

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  • Mistral 7B and deepseek-ai are two open-weight models that surpass 3.5, though not 4, on several measures.

  • ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor

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  • Strange that they don't just use an open weights model; there are several now that surpass ChatGPT 3.5, which is probably good enough for what they need.

  • Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data

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  • If the company was run by a hallucinating AI it couldn't be any flakier.

  • Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

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  • By the time it appears, it will have been "on" for some nonzero duration before you switch it off, so I guess they could already have irreversibly vacuumed up your existing data...

  • Evidence mounts that China has sanctions-defying 5nm tech

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  • More to the point, it's good that there exists an alternative to the ARM+Qualcomm platform, for commerical as well as technological competition. Natsec-based sledgehammer measures probably aren't an efficient way to achieve this, but oh well.

  • Hong Kong leader praises election turnout as voter numbers hit record low

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  • These are sham elections where every candidate even mildly critical of the government has been disqualified. Your criticism is groundless and uninformed.

  • Maduro’s land grab in Guyana is a cynical ploy to hang on to power in Venezuela

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  • They're LARPing as imperialists, maybe, but realistically as soon as they try anything, they will get stomped harder than Saddam Hussein during Gulf War 1.

  • Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars

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  • China is using subsidies to accelerate the green transition, exactly like the US is doing with the "Inflation Reduction Act" and other initiatives.

  • Europe reaches deal on world's first comprehensive AI rules

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  • Given that Europe hosts a negligible amount of global AI R&D and tech startups, the most likely outcome is that the rest of the world will keep going what they are doing, with most R&D done in the US and China, then companies will offer EU-specific products narrowly tailored to obey the letter of the law. That's not necessarily a good or bad thing, just the likely outcome.

  • Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules

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  • Any word on exemptions for free and open source models in the final version? This was one of the worst features of the regulation during the drafting stage.

  • Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues

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  • Conducting a never-ending program of global mass deforestation has other environmental costs.

  • Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues

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  • Trees and phytoplankton keep the carbon around.

  • Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues

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  • The points they're making are not wrong. We should be paying attention to the lifecycle emissions of green energy facilities (that isn't the same thing as not building those facilities). And we should be putting more resources into development of direct CO2 capture; the argument raised in the article, that CO2 capture is bad because it will draw attention from the green transition, is laughably stupid.

  • Early impressions of Google's Gemini aren't great | TechCrunch

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  • Worse still, Gemini Pro seems to perform worse than some of the recent free/open-source models, like deepseek.

  • US announces visa bans for Israeli ‘extremist settlers’ in West Bank

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  • Why not sanctions? The US has been happy to impose individual sanctions in many other cases. Visa bans don't have significant impacts on people who don't want or need to travel to the US.

  • In China's coal country, full steam ahead with new power plants despite climate pledges

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  • They are also adding loads of wind, solar, and nuclear (6-8 new plants a year!). Objectively speaking, China is not a country we should be worried about in making the green transition. India, Indonesia, and the rest of the developing world face much bigger problems financing and building the necessary infrastructure. And unfortunately, there has been very little headway in tackling these problems.