Tesla announces 500 kW charging as it finally delivers V4 Supercharger cabinets

Tesla has announced that it will finally deliver 500 kW charging as it is about to install its long-awaited V4 Supercharger cabinets. The rollout of Supercharger V4 has been a strange one, to say the least. Tesla has been deploying the new charging stations for two years and calling them “Supercharger V4”, but it has… Continue reading Tesla announces 500 kW charging as it finally delivers V4 Supercharger cabinets

Clean Technica: CATL Founder’s Comments Tell Us Something About Tesla–CATL Relationship & Tesla–China Relationship003712

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! I have to admit — I wrote the article about CATL founder Robin Zeng’s comments on Elon Musk and Tesla batteries quite late last night, and I did not fully tease out what those comments meant. One of our… Continue reading Clean Technica: CATL Founder’s Comments Tell Us Something About Tesla–CATL Relationship & Tesla–China Relationship003712

Clean Technica: Best Value for Money EVs — Midsize (D Segment)003711

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! This is the fourth of a five-part series of articles (you can check the others here: part one, part two and part three), where I look at the best affordable EVs in each size category. See the background for… Continue reading Clean Technica: Best Value for Money EVs — Midsize (D Segment)003711

Clean Technica: CATL Founder Burns Elon Musk003710

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! I was reading through Steve’s article on CATL’s fascinating new move into producing EV platforms and CATL founder Robin Zeng’s take on solid-state batteries. Then, way down at the bottom, I got to Zeng’s comments about discussions with Elon… Continue reading Clean Technica: CATL Founder Burns Elon Musk003710

CEO of Grand Theft Auto Publisher Slams AI Hype in Gaming Industry

Someone has to say it. Grand Theft Automation As the gaming industry is besieged by cruel layoffs and threats to employment like stilted AI-generated voice acting, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive — the publisher of massive titles including Grand Theft Auto — Strauss Zelnick says he’s not quite convinced about AI.  “In terms of AI,… Continue reading CEO of Grand Theft Auto Publisher Slams AI Hype in Gaming Industry

OpenAI Alarmed When Its Shiny New AI Model Isn’t as Smart as It Was Supposed to Be

“The AGI bubble is bursting a little bit.” Cooling Off OpenAI’s next large language model may not be as powerful as many hoped. Code-named Orion, the AI model is sorely underperforming behind the scenes, Bloomberg reports, showing less improvement over its predecessor than GPT-4 did over GPT-3. A similar report from The Information this week… Continue reading OpenAI Alarmed When Its Shiny New AI Model Isn’t as Smart as It Was Supposed to Be

Man Who Bragged About Having a Literal Brain Worm to Be Appointed Head of the US Health Department

Image by Chip Somodevilla via Getty A political scion who bragged about having a brain worm — yes, we are horribly serious about that — is slated to become the United States’ next secretary of Health and Human Services. As Politico reports, president-elect Donald Trump is expected to select former opponent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr to lead… Continue reading Man Who Bragged About Having a Literal Brain Worm to Be Appointed Head of the US Health Department

Donald Trump to Nominate Anti-Vaccine Activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Oversee US Public Health

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would nominate former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It’s the fulfillment of an implied promise that Trump made at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in late October, where he said he… Continue reading Donald Trump to Nominate Anti-Vaccine Activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Oversee US Public Health

Save Big During the All-Clad Factory Seconds Sale

Using bad cookware can make even the most competent chefs feel like they’re in an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. Chefs and culinary experts worldwide use All-Clad pans as the gold standard, including the reviews team here at WIRED. All-Clad cookware is expensive, but it lasts for years and years. And years. So how do you… Continue reading Save Big During the All-Clad Factory Seconds Sale

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Is Waiting for Trump to Keep His Word—and Set Him Free

At sentencing, the judge was also permitted to take under consideration the murder-for-hire allegations, despite them never having been charged at trial. “Until the Supreme Court rules otherwise, relevant but uncharged crimes of this sort can be and are regularly considered by judges,” says Richman. Ulbricht has never fully acknowledged the harm inflicted by the… Continue reading Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Is Waiting for Trump to Keep His Word—and Set Him Free