Clean Technica: Tesla Demands Privacy From Public Officials, NA Sales Chief Departs004102

Last Updated on: 15th July 2025, 11:08 pm “Democracy Dies In Secret” is a phrase found on the masthead of the Washington Post, even though its owner, Jeff Bezos, seems to be unaware of what the phrase means. It is often attributed to famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, but according to Wikipedia, he first… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Demands Privacy From Public Officials, NA Sales Chief Departs004102

Clean Technica: Tesla Starts Selling Vehicles in India — Finally004101

Last Updated on: 15th July 2025, 11:09 pm After years and years of discussion and delay, Tesla is finally starting to sell cars in India! The company has launched a store in Mumbai, the banking center of India, and you can now buy the Tesla Model Y in India. On to the bad news. Thanks… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Starts Selling Vehicles in India — Finally004101

Clean Technica: Earth To USA: Global EV Sales Are Going Up, Where Are You?004100

Last Updated on: 15th July 2025, 10:16 am US President Donald Trump can throttle down EV sales here in the US, but he can’t stop the global decarbonization movement. Besides, the US market has already become somewhat irrelevant. The latest report from the firm Rho Motion shows that global EV sales grew 28% year-to-date compared… Continue reading Clean Technica: Earth To USA: Global EV Sales Are Going Up, Where Are You?004100

Clean Technica: Tesla’s Humongous Market Cap Is Simply Greed & Fantasy004099

Last Updated on: 15th July 2025, 11:09 pm Look, I’ve got some good friends who are Tesla [NASDAQ:TSLA] shareholders. They are really good people. A few of them have had shares in the company for well over a decade. A couple of others joined the party more recently, but still years ago. I held Tesla… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla’s Humongous Market Cap Is Simply Greed & Fantasy004099

Elon Musk Said Grok 4 Was the “Smartest AI in the World,” But Its Leaderboard Scores Just Came Out and They Tell a Different Story

Elon Musk has been boasting about what he says are the incredible capabilities of xAI’s new Grok 4 AI chatbot. “Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines, simultaneously,” Musk bragged, adding that Grok 4 was “the smartest AI in the world.” Is it really? Intelligence was a hard thing to… Continue reading Elon Musk Said Grok 4 Was the “Smartest AI in the World,” But Its Leaderboard Scores Just Came Out and They Tell a Different Story

Metadata Shows That Critical Minutes Were Deleted From the Epstein Video

Try as he might, President Donald Trump is failing miserably to get the world to move on from the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein crisis. Trump’s loyal fan base devolved into a cesspool of conspiracy theories after the White House walked back claims about the late billionaire sex criminal, concluding that Epstein had no “client list” and… Continue reading Metadata Shows That Critical Minutes Were Deleted From the Epstein Video

New Law Would Force Aging Members of Congress to Take Cognitive Tests

The United States is changing fast. Lawmakers are being forced to grapple not just with timeless questions of governance, but often with novel and rapidly-changing policy issues ranging from cryptocurrency regulation to tech monopolies to app-based labor. That quickly shifting landscape has some doubting whether the country’s aging lawmakers are up for the increasingly complicated task. The issue… Continue reading New Law Would Force Aging Members of Congress to Take Cognitive Tests

Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round that values the fledgling firm at $12 billion. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included Nvidia, Accel, Cisco, and AMD—among others. The mammoth investment reflects the ultracompetitive race to build… Continue reading Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders

China’s Geely is officially bringing its luxury EV startup Zeekr private

China’s Geely Auto is officially taking its luxury EV subsidiary Zeekr private, just over a year after the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. The news comes two months after Geely offered to take Zeekr private, following President Donald Trump’s threats earlier this year to delist Chinese stocks from U.S. exchanges. When the… Continue reading China’s Geely is officially bringing its luxury EV startup Zeekr private

AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI

The Venn diagram of engineers who know a little bit about AI, self-driving, and mining has a small intersection. Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski wants as many of those people as possible. And an acquisition is helping him achieve that goal. The San Francisco-based startup, which has developed a self-driving system designed for haulage trucks and… Continue reading AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI