Last month, 1 in 5 passenger vehicles sold in Australia were electric; However, when it comes to heavy vehicles, the decarbonization story has a long way to go. The real heavy lifting in logistics is done by trucks, and Australian company Janus Electric is proving it has a viable, immediate solution, and North American fleet
It’s Altman against Musk once again. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the recent attention he received from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk must mean his company is doing a good job. “There are many benchmarks that suggest 5.6 soles is the best model in the world right now,” Altman wrote in X on Saturday, referring to
Another leader of OpenAI’s security strategy is leaving, joining a growing list of employees who have left the company’s security and alignment teams in recent years. Johannes Heidecke, head of OpenAI’s Security Systems team, is leaving as the company reorganizes its research and security work under a single leader. “We are grateful for Johannes’ contributions
Here’s a delicious AI irony. For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the Internet, it can be used for the development and output of AI models. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to avoid it, without success. Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are discovering what the rest
Every week in the AI Playground section of our Tech Memo newsletter, we feature people trying out an AI tool, or sometimes I try things out myself. This week, we hear from Business Insider’s star AI reporter, Stephen Council. He has been using OpenAI’s Codex tool to create software without using code. OpenAI merged Codex
At Kalshi, most employees report directly to both founders of the largest US prediction market in what CEO Tarek Mansour described as a deliberately “unusual” management structure. Speaking on a recent episode of Sequoia Capital’s “Long Strange Trip,” Mansour said he and his co-founder Luana Lopes Lara have about 150 direct reports with little traditional