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NHTSA investigates comma.ai’s openpilot over 5 crashes that killed 3
NHTSA investigates comma.ai’s openpilot over 5 crashes that killed 3

NHTSA has opened a formal investigation into comma.ai’s aftermarket driver assistance devices after five crashes where cars running openpilot plowed into stopped or slow-moving vehicles in their own lane. Two of those crashes killed three people.

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ChatGPT now sends 95.1% of AI referral traffic to websites, BrightEdge says
ChatGPT now sends 95.1% of AI referral traffic to websites, BrightEdge says

ChatGPT sent 95.1% of the traffic that AI chatbots referred to websites in August, its highest share this year, according to new data from BrightEdge. The search marketing company said referral traffic from ChatGPT grew 101% between January and August….

Audi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72%
Audi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72%

The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. The car’s official WLTP range is 777 kilometres, and the drive took more …

‘It almost started a war’: US Army nearly boarded a Chinese ship after receiving an “entirely false” AI-hallucinated intelligence report saying it had nuclear arms on board
‘It almost started a war’: US Army nearly boarded a Chinese ship after receiving an “entirely false” AI-hallucinated intelligence report saying it had nuclear arms on board

A chatbot wrongly identified a Chinese ship’s cargo as nuclear materials, nearly triggering a US military boarding operation.

Save $250 on the Bambu Lab H2D AMS Combo dual-nozzle 3D printer
Save $250 on the Bambu Lab H2D AMS Combo dual-nozzle 3D printer

The Bambu Lab H2D is our top-rated 3D printer – a stand-out flagship machine that shattered our workshop tests, and it’s now available with a big discount.

PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses

Prism’s larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.

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Today’s NYT Connections Answers Explained For Friday, September 25

Not sure what today’s NYT Connections answers are all about? Find out just what the different words in today’s grid mean and how they fit together.

Thinking about buying a second car? Here’s a $1,000 alternative
Thinking about buying a second car? Here’s a $1,000 alternative

Being a one-car family works great right up until the moment two people need to be in two different places. Maybe your spouse took the car to work, but you need to grab groceries. Maybe you’ve got to pick up a kid from daycare. Perhaps you’re meeting a…

Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers

Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.