Rivian lost $1.46 billion in Q2 as it drives towards a VW-linked future

Rivian’s financial losses have crept up as it pushed out the last of its first-generation R1 trucks and SUVs in favor of newer, more cost efficient versions — a sign of just how much the company could use the $5 billion that could come its way as part of a recently announced deal with Volkswagen […]
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Google Assistant lives to automate another day

With new Pixel devices just over the horizon, Assistant’s days on Android may still be numbered. For the time being, however, it still has a place on the home.
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Amazon upgrades its AI image generator

Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. Simply called Titan Image Generator v2, the new model brings with it several new capabilities, AWS principal developer advocate Channy Yun explains in a blog post. Users can “guide” the images they […]
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Google Breaks Antitrust Law with Search, Federal Court Rules

Judge Amit Mehta ruled Google’s “default distribution” of its search engine contributed to advertising revenue and illegally suppressed competition.

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X is getting closer to launching its payment service

X (formerly Twitter) appears to be making progress on its upcoming payments system, bringing it closer to Elon Musk’s vision of turning X into an “everything app.”   According to a recent finding by app researcher Nima Owji, the company is working on adding a “Payments” button to the navigation bar under the bookmarks tab. Owji, […]
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Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-propelled aircraft takes flight

Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered aircraft soared to new heights in its latest test campaign, as the company looks to build what could be the highest-performance aircraft to take off from a runway. The series of three flights, which were completed in late July, saw the Mk-II Aurora vehicle achieve a maximum speed of Mach 0.92 and […]
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Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Conspiracy to Boycott the Platform

The right-wing video site Rumble filed a similar antitrust suit today.

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AI Is Heating the Olympic Pool

A data center in Paris has been hooked up to the energy system heating the Olympic pool. But critics say that projects recycling data centers’ excess heat are a distraction from the real environmental costs of AI.

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Microsoft fires back at Delta after massive outage, says airline declined ‘repeated’ offers for help

Microsoft said Delta turned down several offers for help during the flight disruptions following the outage.

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Elon Musk’s X sues advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’ after Twitter takeover

The company formerly known as Twitter filed the lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and member companies Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted.

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