Week in Review: Jeff Bezos’ secret EV startup

Welcome again a week in review! We have a lot of great things for your reading fun this week: Jeff Bezos Backs EV Startup Slate; It accuses the amounts of those reported to the collusion company. Waymo may use internal camera data; And much more. Let’s get it!

I want this: Slate, an EV EV company, has the ambitious goal of building a two -seat pick -up truck at an attractive price of $ 25,000. She gathered a major war chest in the service of this goal, with the support of Jeff Bezos, and hopes to enter her car in production in late 2026.

China’s complicity: Sarah Win Williams, former head of global public policy on Facebook, who wrote a book on her time on Facebook, has witnessed before the US Senate this week. Her testimony was hot, as you can imagine. According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook, now known as Meta, with the Chinese Communist Party “to” undermine US national security and betray American values. “

Wait, what? Trefor Milton, the founder of Nicolas, who recently obtained a pardon after being convicted of securities fraud, is trying to buy the assets of his previous company out of bankruptcy. It is not clear whether any other parties have made offers of Nicolas’ origins.

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Say “cheese”: According to an unpublished version of WayMo’s privacy policy, the self -driving car company plans to use data from its robots, including the video of the internal cameras associated with the identities of the contestants, to train artificial intelligence models. It seems that users will be able to withdraw.

Return, return, return again: On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order that supports coal for the data center authority. The government will be directed to appoint coal as a critical metal and prevent the closure of some coal -powered power plants, which requires them to continue to work.

How to be rich: Netjets has revealed some information about how to serve flight attendants on aircraft. According to the evidence, Musk seems not “interested in maintaining fuel” because it “wants to fly as soon as it is direct.” He also loves to keep the cabin at 65 degrees.

Talent cliff: The new CTO Mira Mirati from Ai Venture, Ai Machine Labs, has hired some prominent names in this field – Bob McGu, chief research employee at Openai, and Alack Radford, a former OpenAI researcher behind many of the company’s most transformative innovations.

Dropbox: Eric Cox, chief customer official at Dropbox, who joined the company in 2023, descends from the SEC report. It is not yet clear who will be replaced.

I got HVAC in my mind: The founder of the founder Nest is known to Matt Rogers about rolling with punches. “The nest does not necessarily do whatever I have appointed to do years ago,” Rogers told Tim de Chant. “It’s one of the things when you sell a company.” But Rogers was unable to shake his obsession with inflammation.

A thorn stick in it: At a summit that explores how artificial intelligence will affect education, US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon referred to artificial intelligence as “A1”, such as steak sauce. During a committee, Amnesty International said at the beginning, but it became increasingly less consistent, which led us to believe that it knows the difference and that it is just a slide. Delicious and delicious.

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$$$$$: Amnesty International itself is very expensive for companies to operate, but we discovered that testing these models can be very expensive as well. OPENAI thinking, for example, costs $ 2,767. Claude 3.7 “hybrid” is one of the models of anthropologist in the anthropors, the “hybrid” thinking model in the same set of tests is $ 1,485.35. Compare this to the cost of Openai’s O1-MINI ($ 141.22) and Claude 3.7 unusual Sonnet predecessors ($ 81.41). Kyle Wiggers is looking for the reason for increasing the costs of models and more complicated.