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The US is getting its first offshore wind blade factory

October 26, 2021
Spain-headquartered renewables giant Siemens Gamesa announced today that it will build a new offshore wind turbine blade factory in Virginia. The $200 million factory will be the first of its kind in the US. The US’ first offshore wind blade factory Siemens Gamesa will develop an 80-acre (32-hectare) site at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Portsmouth, Virginia, which will ultimately become…
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Tesla (TSLA) reaches $1 trillion valuation

October 26, 2021
Tesla (TSLA) has officially reached a public market valuation of $1 trillion after adding over $100 billion to its market capitalization today alone. As we reported earlier today, Tesla is seeing a series of good catalysts: Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas, the single-largest…
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Tesla opens new R&D center in China with all engineering under one roof, teases humanoid robot

October 26, 2021
Tesla announced the opening of its new research and development center in Shanghai. The new facility will help the American automaker to tap into local Chinese engineering talent beyond just manufacturing. Gigafactory Shanghai has been an incredible success for Tesla and quickly became the company’s largest factory by production volume. Through building the factory and ramping up production…
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Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas, the single-largest EV purchase ever, with Tom Brady campaign

October 26, 2021
Hertz Global Holdings Inc has placed an order for a whopping 100,000 Teslas in a huge first step toward electrifying its rental-car fleet and in the process mainstreaming EVs. Bloomberg reported the news a few minutes ahead of the press release, with sources who asked not to be identified, and said that it represents around $4.2 billion of revenue for Tesla. It will be the single-largest…
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Halo Infinite campaign trailer swings for redemption

October 26, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  343 Industries today released new details about the campaign of the upcoming Halo Infinite. It released the first trailer for the single-player story since…
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AI Weekly: The intractable challenge of bias in AI

October 26, 2021
Last week, Twitter shared research showing that the platform’s algorithms amplify tweets from right-of-center politicians and news outlets at the expense of left-leaning sources. Rumman Chowdhury, the head of Twitter’s machine learning, ethics, transparency, and…
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Utilizing AI to improve mass transit

October 26, 2021
Of all the ways AI is expected to improve modern life, perhaps none is more intriguing than its impact on mass transit. The pandemic will not last forever. So, at some point, people around the world will once again need to move from place to place quickly, efficiently, and at a reasonable cost. In most cities, however, mass transit systems like subways, buses, and planes already struggle to keep…
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