Welcome back to review! This week, we have a lot of cool stuff to read: Jeff Bezos Backs EV startup; a meta-whistleblower accusing the company of collusion; Waymo can use internal camera data; and more. Let’s get started!
I want this: Slate, an EV startup, with Ambitious goals An affordable two-seater pickup truck for an attractive $25,000. With the support of Jeff Bezos, it has accumulated a considerable war box and hopes to put its vehicles into production immediately after the end of 2026.
China Collusion: Sarah Wynn-Williams, former head of global public policy at Facebook, wrote a book about her time at Facebook Testified before the U.S. Senate this week. As you can imagine, her testimony was very spicy. She said Facebook, now known as Meta, works directly with the Chinese Communist Party to “undermine American national security and betray American values,” according to Wynn-Williams.
Wait, what? Nicholas founder Trevor Milton recently pardoned for securities fraud Trying to buy assets His former company went bankrupt. It is not clear whether other parties have submitted bids for Nikola’s assets.
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Say “cheese”: According to an unreleased version of Waymo’s privacy policy, self-driving car companies are Plan to use data from its robotincluding videos of internal cameras related to rider identity to train the generated AI model. The user obviously has the option to exit.
Return, return, again: President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that endorses coal in data centers. The government will be pointed at Designate coal as a key mineral and prevent certain coal-fired power plants from closing, requiring them to continue operations.
How to be rich: Violation of the infringement of NetJets, a private jet company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, reveals some information How should the flight attendant serve Elon Musk on the plane. According to the guide, Musk is obviously not interested in saving fuel because he “want to fly as soon as possible.” He also likes to keep the cabin cold at 65 degrees.
Screw talents: Openai’s former CTO Mira Murati’s new AI risks, Thinking Machine Labs, Hired some prominent names In the field of becoming a consultant on the spot – Bob McGrew, formerly the chief research officer of OpenAI, Alec Radford is the OpenAI researcher behind many of the company’s more transformative innovations.
Dropping Dropbox: Dropbox Chief Account Officer Eric Cox joined the company in 2023 Resigningfiled according to SEC. It is not clear who will replace him.
I thought of HVAC: Nest co-founder Matt Rogers knows to scroll. “Nests aren’t necessarily everything I set them up as doing years ago,” Rogers told Tim de Chant. “It’s one thing you sell the company.” But Rogers hasn’t Shake his obsession with HVAC.
In it, a fork extends: A summit on exploring how AI will impact education, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon calls AI “A1” like steak sauce. During the panel, she initially said “AI” but increasingly inconsistently led us to believe that she knew the difference, and it was just a slip. Delicious flavor.
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$$$$$: Artificial intelligence itself is very expensive for company operations, but we found that testing these models can also be expensive. For example, the O1 inference model evaluating OpenAI is priced at $2,767. In the same set of tests, the benchmark humans’ recent Claude 3.7 sonnet “mixed” inference model was $1,485.35. By comparison, how much it costs to evaluate Openai’s O1-Mini ($141.22) and Claude 3.7 SONNET’s non-conditioning ex ($81.41). Kyle Wiggers watch Why benchmarking becomes more expensive As the model becomes larger, it becomes more complex.
