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Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.

A blog by Sam Greydanus

In a major policy shift, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that vehicles with 85% or more domestic content will be fully exempt from new tariffs on automobiles. That’s a steep threshold, and as of today, there’s only one automaker that qualifies for the exemption: Tesla. Tesla Alone Q...

We cannot create a better world if we cannot imagine it.

Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.

“The legacy of this art is a liberatory one — our people, Black men and women, were principal actors in the fight for freedom throughout Colombia.”

Is Jeff Bezos a coward? Let’s find out.

QR is cool is an interactive demonstration of the error correction built into every QR code. Draw on a QR code and see how the decoder works inside.

The FTC’s politically motivated inquiry into “tech censorship” has managed to prove exactly the opposite of what it intended: the government agency is now actively censoring publi…

The idea that personal LLM use is environmentally irresponsible shows up *a lot* in many of the online spaces I frequent. I've [touched on my doubts around this](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#the-environmental-impact-got-better) in the …

A open, local Manus AI alternative. No APIs, No $200 monthly bills. Enjoy an autonomous agent that thinks, browses the web, and code for the sole cost of electricity. - Fosowl/agenticSeek

New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

It was Monday and my daughter was late for the school again. To make things worse, the bus came early by 2 minutes. After rushing and making sure she caught the bus on time, I sat down for my morning coffee and opened up Hacker News. The front page had an interesting entry: “All Kindles can now be j...

Neurox control helm chart details. Contribute to neuroxhq/helm-chart-neurox-control development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...

You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years. Businesses have been trying to ride the wave of enthusiasm by adding artificial intelligence into all their products. Results have been mixed to say the least. Apple has delayed