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Cybertruck Accelerator Pedals Recalled by Tesla for Defects Causing Stalling

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Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Reports of problems with the Cybertruck’s accelerator pedal started popping up in the last few weeks. Tesla said it first received a notice of one of these accelerator pedal incidents from a customer on March 31, and then a second one on April 3. It also told NHTSA that it has started building Cybertrucks with a new accelerator pedal, and that it’s fixing the vehicles that are in transit or sitting at delivery centers. While the Cybertruck only first started shipping late last year, this is not the vehicle’s first recall.

X to discontinue hiding checkmarks feature for paying members

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Last year, Elon Musk-owned social network X rolled out a feature for paid users to hide their checkmarks from others. Just like a lot of decisions taken by X, there is no definite timeline as to when the hide your checkmark feature will go away. I liked being a X Premium subscriber, but I didn't like the dumb checkmark. pic.twitter.com/9vfarfOySV — Haje (@Haje) April 11, 2024BREAKING: #X seems to be removing the ability to hide the verification checkmark! The company also started offering its Premium subscription to these users and Premium+ subscription to users with more than 5,000 verified followers.

“Breaking Barriers in AI: Emilia Gómez’s Musical Journey into the EU’s Influential Tech Sector”

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Gómez’s research is grounded in the computational music field, where she contributes to the understanding of the way humans describe music and the methods in which it’s modeled digitally. What I liked at the time from machine learning was its modelling capabilities and the shift from knowledge-driven to data-driven algorithm design — e.g. There’s also PHENICX, a large European Union (EU)-funded project I coordinated on the use of music; and AI to create enriched symphonic music experiences. What advice would you give to women seeking to enter the AI field? They should learn about the working principles and limitations of AI algorithms to be able to challenge them and use them in a responsible way.

Capitalizing on the AI Boom: Aerospike Secures $100M for Its Real-Time Database Platform

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NoSQL database Aerospike today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series E round led by Sumeru Equity Partners. In 2022, Aerospike added document support and then followed that up with graph and vector capabilities — two database features that are crucial for building real-time AI and ML applications. “We were founded primarily as a real-time data platform that can work with data at really high scale, or, as we call it, unlimited scale,” Aerospike CEO Subbu Iyer said. So our premise has held good that real-time data and real-time access to data is going to be important pretty much across every industry. “Aerospike, with its impressive customer base and performance advantage at scale, is uniquely positioned to become a foundational element for the next generation of real-time AI applications.”

BlaBlaCar Secures $108 Million in Debt Line After Profitability Milestone

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The carpooling and bus ticketing company has been around for so long that it’s hard to consider it a startup anymore. Today, the company is announcing that it’s secured a €100 million revolving credit facility ($108M at today’s exchange rate). And the good news is that there are BlaBlaCar users all around the world — not just France. When the war in Ukraine started, BlaBlaCar had millions of users in Russia. Even if you don’t book your next train ride on BlaBlaCar, the company is also experimenting with last-mile carpooling.

Rivian’s Inauspicious Beginning to a Challenging Year

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Rivian has a challenging year ahead — and the first quarter is off to a tepid start. Both of those figures are down from the fourth quarter of 2023, where it built 17,541 and shipped 13,972. Rivian did signal that it plans to make roughly the same number of EVs as it did in 2023. Producing and selling vehicles, which includes the R1S SUV, R1T pickup and two versions of a commercial electric van, has never been the company’s only challenge. Tesla reported its own very weak first quarter sales on Tuesday.

OpenAI: Musk Gives Meager $45M Contribution, Seeking Tesla Merge or Takeover

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The organization also secured more than $90 million from other donors to support its research efforts. This is when disagreements started between Musk and other co-founders of Tesla, OpenAI wrote in the blog post, which includes five email exchanges between Musk and OpenAI executives. “As we discussed a for-profit structure in order to further the mission, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or he wanted full control. Elon left OpenAI, saying there needed to be a relevant competitor to Google/DeepMind and that he was going to do it himself. As Ilya told Elon: ‘As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open.

“Discover New Workout Companions with Liveliness: The Ultimate Sports Community App”

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Finding people who share your active passion — to go hiking, biking, running, whatever — is a pretty enduring problem. Step forward Liveliness, a Spanish startup building a community app around shared sporting passions. There’s a chat function and the ability for users to set up events other users can sign up to join. In the last three months people really started to use the app, making plans, creating events.”Users range in age from young to middle aged. “We just tried to make the app as simple as possible so people understand and know how to use it,” he added.

“Apple Discontinues Development of Self-Driving Car and Implements Workforce Reduction”

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Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running project to build an autonomous electric car, according to Bloomberg. The company has already started laying off some people who worked on the project, TechCrunch has learned. Many of the nearly 2,000 employees who were still working on the project will be shifted to Apple’s generative AI projects, Bloomberg reported. The decision to kill the project comes at a time when major automakers are reevaluating their investments in electric vehicles, and amid increased scrutiny on autonomous vehicle projects. Apple first started working on its car project, known internally as “Project Titan,” in 2014.

Threads begins trials on in-app camera shortcut and unpublished documents

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Meta said Thursday that it has started to test two “most requested” features: drafts and in-app camera. You can write the post you might want to post later in the composer, and just swipe down to save the draft. The Threads app also shows a different composer icon in the bottom bar when there is a saved draft that you haven’t posted yet. Along with the new drafts feature, Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo through the new camera shortcut that opens in the composer. This shortcut makes it easier if you want to quickly post a photo to Threads.