Hyundai opens IONIQ 3 EV orders, starting at about $30,000
Hyundai opens IONIQ 3 EV orders, starting at about $30,000

Hyundai opened orders for the IONIQ 3, its new entry-level electric hatch, starting at about $30,000.

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Not sold on Tesla Powerwall? There are some great home battery alternatives out there
Not sold on Tesla Powerwall? There are some great home battery alternatives out there

Between increasingly extreme weather, rising electricity demands, and the rapid expansion of data centers, energy independence is starting to look less like a talking point for doomsday preppers and more like sound planning. That shift in thinking is d…

GM offers free charging to more of its Latin American Chevy customers
GM offers free charging to more of its Latin American Chevy customers

GM’s Latin American expansion continues with news that Chevrolet is offering EV buyers free charging at network at dealerships throughout Peru, where sales of plug-powered vehicles are growing rapidly.

Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

Anthropic has clarified how it’s planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe’s AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude’s text marking system is “a version of the SynthID-Text approach” – an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This […]

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility […]

JLR’s new Freelander 8 takes off with 10,000 orders in first 48 hours
JLR’s new Freelander 8 takes off with 10,000 orders in first 48 hours

The new, retro-inspired Freelander 8 is Jaguar Land Rover’s latest global entry into the West’s red-hot luxury SUV market, and the off-roader is off to a strong start with over 10,000 orders flooding in in just 48 hours.

Amazon is trying to crush class action suits before they get started
Amazon is trying to crush class action suits before they get started

On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site’s terms and conditions. Most notably, it stated that disputes would now be resolved through arbitration and said users agree to a class action waiver. Amazon framed this as a “fast and efficient” way to resolve issues, but it notably would […]

E-quipment highlight: LiuGong 924FE electric excavator is coming to America
E-quipment highlight: LiuGong 924FE electric excavator is coming to America

Global equipment brand LiuGong says its 924FE 30-ton electric excavator isn’t an alternative to diesel. Instead, it’s better in every way – and the company’s North American customers are about to see for themselves.

First Ferrari Luce EV sells for $40 million, 36x its estimate
First Ferrari Luce EV sells for $40 million, 36x its estimate

Ferrari’s first electric car sold for $40 million at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction Saturday night. The pre-sale estimate was $1.1 million.
That’s more than 36 times the estimate, and roughly 62 times what the Luce costs on Ferrari’s own price list. Eve…

ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes

ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature […]