The Kia PV5 makes for a ridiculously cool dump truck
The Kia PV5 makes for a ridiculously cool dump truck

Kia’s electric van might look even cooler as a dump truck. The PV5 was made into a dump truck, and it works.

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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman’s interview with Vanity Fair’s Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user’s suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she’d like to “move on” to another topic. The interruption came […]

Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that “the world should accept some bad things happening” along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and “other bad things” as costs society should expect to tolerate because “people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff” with AI, […]

Toyota gets the green light for a new EV built to take on China
Toyota gets the green light for a new EV built to take on China

Toyota will invest around $1.3 billion, the largest in Argentina’s automotive industry to date, to produce a new electric vehicle at its site in Buenos Aires.

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Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike
Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike

Nvidia’s Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digital cameras to game consoles. When the Shield TV Pro launched nearly seven years ago with an upgraded Tegra X1+ processor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, it sold for $199.99. But […]

Gas cars fall below 50% of global new car sales for the first time
Gas cars fall below 50% of global new car sales for the first time

Gas cars are now a minority of the world’s new car sales. Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021, according to Mobility Global data first reported by Nikkei.

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CNN’s boss will remain as Paramount and WBD merge into Skydance
CNN’s boss will remain as Paramount and WBD merge into Skydance

CNN CEO Mark Thompson will remain at the head of the news network when Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition closes this week. Thompson wrote in a memo to employees that he believes the combined company will “fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood […]

Lucid’s $50,000 Cosmos spotted testing in California after 2027 delay
Lucid’s $50,000 Cosmos spotted testing in California after 2027 delay

The Lucid Cosmos is out testing in California traffic. A camouflaged prototype of the midsize SUV was photographed on Highway 101 in Morgan Hill, about 40 miles south of Lucid’s headquarters in Newark.

The four photos show the sub-$50,000 SUV from t…

Hyundai’s electric hatch goes on sale with up to 308 miles of range, starting at about $25,000
Hyundai’s electric hatch goes on sale with up to 308 miles of range, starting at about $25,000

The IONIQ 3 has received more interest than any Hyundai vehicle in the UK ever. Starting at about $25,000, Hyundai’s electric hatch undercuts much of the competition.

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An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS
An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS

Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple’s AI features with a new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. Now, the models stay on your disk, and the features […]