Wed. 02/28 – The Apple Car Project Is Dead
Feb 28, 2024•18 min
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Episode description
The Apple car project is dead. Really, this time. We think. Google is working to fix Gemini. If you’re using Tumblr, your posts might soon be training OpenAI’s models. Klarna’s AI is doing the work of hundreds of humans. And another fever dream of the most recent boom years might be over.
Links:
- Apple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong Odyssey (Bloomberg)
- Apple's Scrapped Car Project Means AI and Headset Bets Are More Urgent (Bloomberg)
- Google CEO calls AI tool’s controversial responses ‘completely unacceptable’ (Semafor)
- Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (404 Media)
- Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people (FastCompany)
- Thrasio, once king of e-commerce aggregation, files for Ch.11 (TechCrunch)
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