CEO Weekends: SUN Mobility’s Ajay Goel on Building Africa’s Universal Battery-Swapping Network

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India’s SUN Mobility is entering Africa with a proposition that goes beyond putting more electric vehicles on the road, by building an open-architecture battery-swapping ecosystem serving multiple electric vehicle manufacturers and electric vehicle brands. Sun Mobility’s open-architecture battery-swapping ecosystem, a first in Africa, with Kenya serving as the launch market for a broader continental expansionContinue Reading

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Apple has filed a motion demanding expedited discovery in its trade secrets litigation against OpenAI.  The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and some former Apple employees now at the AI firm deliberately worked to exfiltrate valuable trade secrets from Apple. The initial allegations describe a series of serious attempts to grab this information, includingContinue Reading

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The tech industry faced something of a reckoning in late 2022 with the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a simple chatbot that could answer questions, seemingly by magic. The early frontier large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and rivals like Anthropic and Google could reason, solve problems, and answer detailed queriesContinue Reading

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System76 has officially released COSMIC 1.1.0, bringing a host of exciting improvements to their Rust-powered desktop environment. System76 has officially released COSMIC 1.1.0, the latest version of their exciting Rust-based desktop environment. This solid update brings many practical improvements across the board, making COSMIC even more polished and enjoyable toContinue Reading

Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs

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Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia’s DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines equipped with Nvidia RTX GPUs.The launch, developed in close partnership with Nvidia, is one of the most aggressive attempts yet to move seriousContinue Reading

New Next-Gen Dish Adds Muscle to NASA’s Deep Space Network

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NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio frequency antenna to the agency’s deep space communications and navigation system. The network uses giant dish antennas located at three global facilities to support more than 40 spacecraft exploring the solar system and interstellar space. The newContinue Reading

SpaceX Has 17 Starship Launch Pads Under Development

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The $100B Starbase Louisiana will have 10 pads (5 complexes × 2) and will start building in 2027 with a first launch targeted 2029. The new launch facilities will not have a positive revenue impact until 2029 and only if the work stays on schedule. SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. ThoseContinue Reading

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WAFIOS, whose bending machines produce hairpins, axial flux coils, stator connection assemblies and busbars for e-mobility, has detailed three operator-assistance systems: myWAFIOS.ai, an AI assistant reached by scanning a QR code on the machine; the WAFIOS Assistant, which guides setup across two connected displays; and the Smart Pay-Off Interface (SPI),Continue Reading