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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times::Six officers who were injured in the crash are suing Tesla despite the fact that the driver was allegedly impaired

Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: ‘It was all a lie.’::The lawsuit alleged Salesforce retaliated against the executive after raising concerns about the product claims.

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Tipping ‘nudges’ are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don’t leave a gratuity, you’ll hear about it.::DoorDash is the latest delivery service to nudge customers who don’t tip. It shows how intrusive tip requests are, and how important tips are to gig workers.

Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK::Some tech giants feel they might have reached a “tipping point” due to new legislation.

A feud is heating up between Arizona workers and the world’s leading chipmaker after the company claimed the US doesn’t have the skills to build its new factory::TSMC wants to bring in foreign reinforcements to get its Arizona factory running because it claims there aren’t enough qualified local workers.

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California deploys AI to detect wildfires before they start spreading::AI and climate change represent two ways humans may ravage life as we know it on Earth, but the former can also help with the consequences of the latter.

The term “assignment” is very important and is used by students, professionals, and employees. The assignment’s primary purpose is to strengthen the student’s relationship to the topic. Unfortunately, students and young aspirants are presently so overworked that they are unable to continuously provide engaging...

As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

For many book writers, AI is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.

I asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea. Surprisingly, not only did it respond that it was a bad idea, it even went on to urge Google to drop the proposal.

Japan to convert cargo planes into missile carriers — US-inspired palletized munition system turns cargo planes into deadly delivery vehicles for counterstrikes on China and North Korea::Japan plans to turn transport aircraft into ad-hoc missile carriers operating from austere and remote airstrips and using a system with...

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NSA director says China trails US cyber skills::Paul Nakasone rates the Middle Kingdom a ‘pacing challenge’

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