Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Yesterday, I wrote about Tesla’s decision to stop selling “Full Self Driving” after February 14. One of the main questions was, “Why February 14?” Well, one of our readers pointed out the now-obvious reason to us now. Mark Spohr writes: “How about: February 14 is… Continue reading Clean Technica: Ah, THIS Is Why Tesla “Full Self Driving” Sales End On February 14004325
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RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet
Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Much ink has been spilled over US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dalliances with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, brain worms, nicotine pouches, and bizarre self-treatment with a synthetic dye known as methylene blue. In spite of all those wellness eccentricities of his own, Kennedy is apparently in awe… Continue reading RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet
ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
Octavio Jones / AFP via Getty Images As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors, holding children hostage, and murdering people in cold blood, you might be wondering: who the hell hired these guys? As it turns out, AI played a huge role. According to NBC, when ICE identifies… Continue reading ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, and France’s Mistral AI. As part of the series of… Continue reading After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
Whether you’re a one-room film production house or a propagandist for a massive arm of the US government, you’re never too good to have an extra set of eyes take a look at your final draft. That’s a lesson some PR spinsters with the Department of Homeland Security evidently have yet to learn, after the… Continue reading There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
Tencia Benavidez, a Supernatural user who lives in New Mexico, started her VR workouts during the Covid pandemic. She has been a regular user in the five years since, calling the ability to work out in VR ideal, given that she lives in a rural area where it’s hard to get to a gym or… Continue reading Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode. On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph and Metz had left OpenAI… Continue reading Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
Tesla sales stall in India, starts discounts on unsold Model Ys
Tesla is reportedly offering discounts on unsold Model Y inventory in India as the automaker faces a “letdown” in the major auto market following its official launch last year. We have been covering Tesla’s efforts to enter the Indian auto market for years now. It has been a saga of lobbying for lower import duties, rumors of a… Continue reading Tesla sales stall in India, starts discounts on unsold Model Ys
Tesla releases rare look at its lithium refinery, confirms production start
Tesla has released a new video giving us a closer look at its massive lithium refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, and confirming that the facility has officially started production. For years, CEO Elon Musk has been urging entrepreneurs to get into the lithium refining business, famously calling it a “license to print money.” He noted… Continue reading Tesla releases rare look at its lithium refinery, confirms production start
New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images On Tuesday, the US senate passed a new law that would allow victims to sue individuals who use AI models like Grok to generate non-consensual nudes and other sexually explicit images. Dubbed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act, it… Continue reading New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes