New brands, new business areas, shifts in value creation and new types of collaborations will permanently change the automotive industry. Waymo with Uber, Zoox with Amazon, Baidu in China and self-driving vehicles of all kinds. An international look at the developments shows an industry that is increasingly in flux. Go to Source
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The 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Will Be Unlike Any Before It
This year also marks the first time that the opening ceremony will be open to all and free of charge—well, almost. Spectators won’t need to show a ticket to watch the parade form the upper platforms along the Seine. Those who want to stand on the lower docks, from the Austerlitz Bridge to the Iéna… Continue reading The 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Will Be Unlike Any Before It
CrowdStrike offers a $10 Uber Eats card to say sorry before pulling the offer
Last week’s CrowdStrike outage plunged a noticeable portion of the world into a sea of blue death screens. The cybersecurity company tried to apologize with an Uber Eats gift card but its roll out also ended in failure, according to a report from TechCrunch. CrowdStrike apparently tried to send its millions of clients a $10… Continue reading CrowdStrike offers a $10 Uber Eats card to say sorry before pulling the offer
Global Times: China’s badminton team eye gold sweep at Paris Olympics
BEIJING, July 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Earlier in May, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) unveiled the list of qualified participants for the Paris Olympics, with 173 athletes competing in five disciplines. The Chinese team is the only team in the world set to participate in all five events. The only country ever to achieve a clean… Continue reading Global Times: China’s badminton team eye gold sweep at Paris Olympics
MetaVs New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky
Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free. Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the… Continue reading MetaVs New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky
Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris
Reproductive rights organizations have been quick to come out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee after President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would drop out of the presidential race and endorse Harris instead. Harris could be an even stronger proponent for reproductive health care than… Continue reading Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris
NVIDIA AI Foundry Builds Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models for the World’s Enterprises
Enterprises and Nations Can Now Build ‘Supermodels’ With NVIDIA AI Foundry Using Their Own Data Paired With Llama 3.1 405B and NVIDIA Nemotron Models NVIDIA AI Foundry Offers Comprehensive Generative AI Model Service Spanning Curation, Synthetic Data Generation, Fine-Tuning, Retrieval, Guardrails and Evaluation to Deploy Custom Llama 3.1 NVIDIA NIM Microservices With New NVIDIA NeMo… Continue reading NVIDIA AI Foundry Builds Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models for the World’s Enterprises
Serve Robotics Announces Pricing of $15.0 Million Private Placement
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Serve Robotics Inc. (“Serve”) (Nasdaq: SERV), a leading autonomous delivery robotics company, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with a single institutional investor for the purchase and sale, in a private placement, of pre-funded warrants to purchase 2,500,000 shares of Serve’s common stock (the “Common… Continue reading Serve Robotics Announces Pricing of $15.0 Million Private Placement
Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis
The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week, have been torched, stomped on, and verbally berated in recent months. Now Waymo is striking back—in the courts. This month, the Silicon Valley company filed a pair… Continue reading Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis
TIFF’S TREATS ARRIVES IN ALBUQUERQUE, MARKING THE BRAND’S FIRST DELIVERY LOCATION IN NEW MEXICO
The Land of Enchantment will officially be able to have baked-to-order treats from the original warm cookie delivery company delivered to their door this July. AUSTIN, Texas, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ —Tiff’s Treats, the original warm cookie delivery company, officially launched a delivery-only outpost in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Tuesday, July 16th, marking the first… Continue reading TIFF’S TREATS ARRIVES IN ALBUQUERQUE, MARKING THE BRAND’S FIRST DELIVERY LOCATION IN NEW MEXICO