VW’s US self-driving arm, Volkswagen ADMT (Autonomous Driving Mobility & Transport), is partnering with Uber to roll out thousands of autonomous ID. Buzz vans across the US over the next decade.
The plan kicks off in Los Angeles, with testing starting later this year and commercial rides expected to launch in 2026.
The ID. Buzz autonomous driving (AD) vans will have human operators onboard…
Today’s Green Deals are being led by a surprise Earth Day Sale changeup from Jackery, with the brand increasing savings on its latest Explorer 5000 Plus offers that are seeing a bunch of new low prices starting from $2,483, but they’ll be ending tomorrow night. We also…
Researchers from UCLA and Meta AI have introduced d1, a novel framework using reinforcement learning (RL) to significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs). While most attention has focused on autoregressive models like GPT…
An AI assistant that unequivocally agrees with everything you say and supports you — even your most outlandish and obviously false, misguided or straight-up bad ideas — sounds like something out of a cautionary sci-fi short story from Philip K. Dick. But it appears to be the reality for a number of users of OpenAI’s hit chatbot ChatGPT, specifically for interactions with the underlying…
Chinese e-commerce and web giant Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially launched a new series of open source AI large language multimodal models known as Qwen3 that appear to be among the state-of-the-art for open models, and approach performance of proprietary models from the…
January 2025 shook the AI landscape. The seemingly unstoppable OpenAI and the powerful American tech giants were shocked by what we can certainly call an underdog in the area of large language models (LLMs). DeepSeek, a Chinese firm not on anyone’s radar, suddenly…
Ziff Davis and IGN sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
April 28, 2025
In one of the more common disputes of modern AI, Ziff Davis, IGN Entertainment and Everyday Health Media have sued Open AI for copyright infringement.
The lawsuit from the media companies alleged copyright infringement, violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), unjust enrichment and trademark dilution. IGN and Everyday Health Media are divisions of Ziff Davis.
Ziff Davis alleged…
In my first stint as a machine learning (ML) product manager, a simple question inspired passionate debates across functions and leaders: How do we know if this product is actually working? The product in question that I managed catered to both internal and external…
In the sportscar world, there is much discussion about retaining the “purity” of the sputtering, underperforming gas-guzzling engines of yesteryear. After a drive in Everrati’s Porsche 911 restomod, you’ll be ready to embrace the present and see just how much the…
Kia EVs can now officially charge on Tesla Superchargers
April 28, 2025
It’s been a long time coming, but Kia EVs can now officially charge on the Tesla Supercharger network, as of today.
Kia announced this morning that its EV6, EV9 and Niro EVs can now all charge on Tesla’s Supercharger network in North America, giving them access to 21,500 new DC fast chargers, nearly double the previous amount accessible by these vehicles.
Kia now joins ten other brands that…
