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Trump admin freezes EV charging program that gave Tesla millions

​[[{“value”:” The Department of Transportation has paused funding for a $5 billion EV charging infrastructure program that Tesla has received at least $31 million from. The move is widely viewed to be illegal. It’s the latest attempt from the Trump administration to hack away at federally funded renewable energy projects around the country, a clear priority […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Shopify pushes for ‘open trade’ as Trump delays import exemption

​[[{“value”:” On the same day that President Donald Trump delayed ending a trade exemption targeting certain Chinese imports, e-commerce company Shopify published a blog post making its stance on U.S. trade policy clear. In the post, Shopify endorsed “open trade,” calling for regulators to give online merchants the “freedom to expand without constraints imposed by geopolitical […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Best STEM Summer Camps In Ashburn

Best STEM Summer Camps In Ashburn

​[[{“value”:” Ashburn is a major tech hub, so it’s not surprising that it’s home to so many data centers from some of the biggest tech companies in the world. Ashburn has many tech-related educational institutions, as well as private schools and learning centers where children can attend a STEM program. There are many types of STEM camps in Ashburn if…

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

​[[{“value”:” Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. “I’m very glad that Google has changed its stance,” Ng said during an onstage interview Thursday evening with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco. Earlier this […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline

Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline

​[[{“value”:” Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves.  Crucial to that mission is Dojo, Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer designed to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks. FSD isn’t actually fully self-driving; it can perform some […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Coalition ‘concerned’ over UK appointing ex-Amazon exec as antitrust regulator chair

​[[{“value”:” A coalition of organizations and individuals have signed an open letter expressing concern at the U.K. government’s decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The group, which includes U.S. tech outfits such as Yelp, DuckDuckGo, and Mozilla, say that the CMA must be “free from political […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists

​[[{“value”:” An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics competition. The system, called AlphaGeometry2, is an improved version of a system, AlphaGeometry, that DeepMind released last January. In a newly published study, the DeepMind researchers behind […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Bluesky will soon let you limit replies to ‘followers only’

​[[{“value”:” Social network Bluesky will soon give its users more control over who can reply to their posts. Confirmed by Bluesky developer Paul Frazee, Bluesky will add a new “followers only” setting that users can configure to limit replies. In addition, he says, Bluesky will create a way for users to set their default reply settings. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….