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US Postal Service says it is going electric despite Trump

December 18, 2024
While incoming president Donald Trump aims to cancel contracts for new EVs for the US Postal Service, the postmaster general says he defends its electrification plans and won’t return any funding for EVs – unless Congress forces the issue, of course. Last year, Congress gave USPS $3 billion as part of a $430 billion climate bill to buy EVs and charging infrastructure. And that also included…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Canvas to all users

December 11, 2024
OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features, the company announced today in a livestream, the fourth of its “12 Days of OpenAI”-holiday themed announcements. Canvas, which was announced in…
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OpenAI’s o1 model doesn’t show its thinking, giving open source an advantage

December 11, 2024
OpenAI has ushered in a new reasoning paradigm in large language models (LLMs) with its o1 model, which recently got a major upgrade. However, while OpenAI has a strong lead in reasoning models, it might lose some ground to open source rivals that are quickly emerging. Models like o1, sometimes referred to as large reasoning models (LRMs), use extra inference-time compute cycles to “think”…
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DefenseNews

Military pauses Osprey flights again after near crash

December 11, 2024
The Pentagon is temporarily pausing flights again of its fleet of V-22 Ospreys after weakened metal components possibly played a role in another near crash, the latest setback for an embattled aircraft whose safety problems have grown. The pause was recommended last week “out of an abundance of caution” by Vice Adm. Carl Chebi, the head of Naval Air Systems Command, which runs the Osprey…
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Defense tech firms establish AI-focused consortium

December 11, 2024
Palantir and Anduril, two leading defense technology firms, announced today they’re creating an industry consortium to address what they see as hurtles impeding the Defense Department’s adoption of AI. “Our goal is to deliver the technological infrastructure, from the…
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New ad for Dodge Charger Daytona EV rips into ‘soulless,’ ‘lame’ rivals  

December 11, 2024
Dodge has just released a new ad for its all-electric Charger Daytona that sticks true to its engine-revving, muscle-car roots while ripping into EV rivals as “weak” and “soulless sleep pods.” Is it enough to convert its muscle-car fanbase? The new ad aims to flip the script on environmental messages, starting off on a somber note about how Dodge is investing in EVs not to be trendy but to…
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