Review Week: Jeff Bezos’ Secret EV Startup
Welcome back to review week! There are plenty of cool things this week for the joy of reading. Jeff Bezos backs EV startup slate. Meta’s whistleblowers have accused the company of collusion. Waymo may use interior camera data. And more. Let’s get to that!
I want this: There are Slate and EV startups Ambitious Building Goals Affordable two-seater pickup truck for an attractive price of $25,000. Supported by Jeff Bezos, there has been accumulation of considerable war chests serving that goal, and hopes to introduce vehicles into production in the second half of 2026.
China’s conspiracy: Sarah Wynn-Williams, former head of global public policy at Facebook who wrote the book on Facebook; He testified before the US Senate this week. As you can imagine, her testimony was painful. According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook, now known as Meta, works directly with the Chinese Communist Party to “harm the national security of the United States and betray the values of the United States,” she said.
Wait, what? Trevor Milton, founder of Nicola, who was recently forgiven after being convicted of securities fraud; You are about to buy an asset from bankruptcy of his previous company. It is unclear whether other parties have submitted bids for Nicola’s assets.
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It’s called “cheese”: According to an unreleased version of Waymo’s privacy policy, autonomous car companies are Planning to use data from RobotaxisIncludes videos from interior cameras tied to rider identity to train generated AI models. Users will obviously be able to opt out.
Go back, go back, go back again: President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday in favour of coal for power in data centers. The government is instructed Designate coal as an important mineral Operations must continue to be carried out to prevent the closure of coal-fired power plants.
How to get rich: A netjet violation of a private jet company owned by Berkshire Hathaway reveals some information How flight attendants serve Elon Musk on planes. According to the guide, masks “want to fly directly as soon as possible” because they “have no interest in saving fuel.” He also likes to keep his cabin at a frigid 65 degrees.
Scoop up talent: Mira Murati, former CTO of Openai, new AI venture, thinking agency labs, I’ve hired some notable names In the field of advisory, Bob McGrew, previously Chief Research Officer of Openai, and Alec Radford, a former Openai researcher behind many of the company’s more transformative innovations.
Dropbox Drop: Eric Cox, Chief Customer Officer of Dropbox, who joined the company in 2023. I’m resigningaccording to SEC submission. It is not yet clear who will replace him.
I got HVAC in my heart: Nest co-founder Matt Rogers knows he’s rolling with punches. “Nest isn’t necessarily doing everything I was trying to do years ago,” Rogers told Tim de Chant. “It was one of those things when I sold the company.” But Rogers couldn’t. Shaking your obsession with HVAC.
Paste the fork inside it: U.S. Secretary of Education at a summit explores how AI can affect education Linda McMahon called AI “A1” like steak sauce. During the panel she initially said “ai” but became increasingly less consistent and led her to believe she knew the difference. Delicious, delicious slip-up.
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$$$$$: Although AI itself is very expensive for businesses to implement, we found that testing these models can be quite costly. For example, to evaluate Openai’s O1 inference model, it would be $2,767. Anthropic’s recent benchmark for Claude 3.7 Sonnet “hybrid” inference model is $1,485.35 for the same test set. Compare that to the cost of assessing Openai’s O1-Mini ($141.22) and Claude 3.7 Sonnet’s non-seasonal predecessor ($81.41). Kyle Weger watches Why Benchmarks are becoming more expensive As the model grows and becomes more complicated.