[ad_1] Tesla has secured $30 billion in new credit lines that it could use to help develop the new products it is currently working on: the Cybercab robotaxi, the Optimus robot, and the Tesla Semi. The company announced Tuesday that Citibank has agreed to a $20 billion term loan with a three-year maturity. Wells Fargo … Read more
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence startup EliseAI announced Tuesday that it has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, double what it was worth when it raised Series E last August. This latest round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Ventures. EliseAI, founded in 2017, automates administrative and operational work for real estate and healthcare … Read more
[ad_1] Modern vehicles built with connected car technology like WiFi and GPS collect mountains of data about their owners. And this data won’t remain private, according to a new study by researchers at Northeastern University. This conclusion is not new: There have been numerous investigations and lawsuits revealing how driving data is collected and shared … Read more
[ad_1] On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new product called Dots, an always-on AI agent with a bubbly, featureless avatar. While the colorful avatar might evoke a smile, the biggest laugh from the launch is (we imagine) that of Elon Musk, the former OpenAI founder who left, launched competitor Grok, and unsuccessfully sued. This is because … Read more
[ad_1] The US government launched its own AI chatbot on Tuesday – or should we call it the SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot knew without a doubt that, as a public-facing, government-hosted AI tool, the Internet would destroy this thing. The government partnered with Google and SpaceXAI to help … Read more
[ad_1] Apple began rolling out Apple Pay in India on Tuesday, as first reported by TechCrunch. Its primary banking partner is Axis Bank, the country’s third largest private sector lender. The move brings the company’s payments service to the world’s most populous country after years of delays in a market dominated by the state-backed United … Read more