Indian NBFC Saarathi Finance in talks with PE firms to raise capitalSaarathi plan to cater to the credit needs of the under-served MSME market.

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Clean Technica: Li Auto CEO Thinks Autonomous Cars Need Lidar in China003803

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! It’s a longstanding and vigorous debate — will robotaxis need lidar, or are cameras alone adequate? Of course, we have several companies now operating robotaxis in China, the US, and elsewhere. Those all use lidar. However, Elon Musk has… Continue reading Clean Technica: Li Auto CEO Thinks Autonomous Cars Need Lidar in China003803

Clean Technica: Electric Vehicle Sales Leaders — Best Selling OEMs, Part 4 of 4003802

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A closer look at the best-selling PEV automotive groups — edition 4 of 4 This is the fourth and final edition of a series looking at the top selling OEMs in terms of plugin vehicle sales. To check out… Continue reading Clean Technica: Electric Vehicle Sales Leaders — Best Selling OEMs, Part 4 of 4003802

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

Apple has come under intense scrutiny for rolling out an underbaked AI-powered feature that summarizes breaking news — while often butchering it beyond recognition. For over a month, roughly as long as the feature has been available to iPhone users, publishers have found that it consistently generates false information and pushes it to millions of… Continue reading Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

Supreme Court Justice Demands to Know Why Pornhub Doesn’t Have Literary Essays Alongside the Gangbangs

Some folks go to Hooters for the wings, or buy Playboy for the articles. Others, like sitting Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, would like to browse Pornhub for its enlightening essays. At least that’s what he longs to see on the porn megasite, if his comments today in the hearing of Free Speech Coalition et al.… Continue reading Supreme Court Justice Demands to Know Why Pornhub Doesn’t Have Literary Essays Alongside the Gangbangs

Facebook Shuts Down Machine Learning Systems for Identifying Viral Hoaxes

*Audible groaning* Hoax on You In response to the rising tide of social media-spread misinformation in the 2010s, the social media behemoth Meta-formerly-Facebook built machine learning systems that proactively identified and limited the spread of viral fake narratives. Now, as reporting from Platformer reveals, it’s switched those hoax-tracking systems off. The automated systems have targeted… Continue reading Facebook Shuts Down Machine Learning Systems for Identifying Viral Hoaxes

Horrendous New Startup Uses AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Posts Shilling Clients’ Products

Oh no. Slop Goes the Weasel Reddit is poised to be overrun with infinite AI-powered marketing campaigns, if one enterprising tech startup has anything to say about it. And unfortunately for us, it does. Enter Astral, billed as a “24/7 AI startup that works to grow your startups” by relentlessly shilling any brand. In a brief… Continue reading Horrendous New Startup Uses AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Posts Shilling Clients’ Products

Leftists Plead With Trump Not to Build High Speed Rail System Connecting America’s Major Cities

“Drown me just as deep as you please, Br’er Fox,” said Br’er Rabbit in a particularly racist Disney film, “but for Lord’s sake don’t fling me in that briar patch.” So goes the attitude of certain freedom-loving patriots who’ve taken to social media hoping to goad the MAGA crowd into supporting God-fearing, burger-eating, city-connecting public… Continue reading Leftists Plead With Trump Not to Build High Speed Rail System Connecting America’s Major Cities

The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair

Today, the US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against farming equipment manufacturer Deere & Company—makers of the iconic green John Deere tractors, harvesters, and mowers—citing its longtime reluctance to keep its customers from fixing their own machines. “Farmers rely on their agricultural equipment to earn a living and feed their families,” FTC chair Lina… Continue reading The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair

Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All

Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests if a person in California exhibits some sort of political preference, moving them to Texas isn’t likely to reshape their viewpoints immediately. In the same town hall call, company leadership described the Texas relocation as an attempt to address… Continue reading Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All