The summer of 2023 is almost over, and we have no Cybertruck. But a serendipitous visit to a San Francisco parking lot yielded new images of the unreleased polygonal electric truck. Tesla watchers The Kilowatts posted new interior photos of Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Fingerprints? On this blocky buggy’s exterior? Fingerprints. …

Elon Musk said he canceled a Ukrainian military strike on Russia by refusing to use Starlink. The billionaire claims the decision was made to avoid being “complicit in a major act of war,” but it raises serious questions about oligarchs’ military roles. CNN reported it, citing Walter Isaacson’s upcoming Musk …

Today, Relativity Space announced it would lease a historic first-stage test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center to advance Terran R launch vehicle development. NASA will lease the A-2 Test Stand to Relativity for seven years for $2.76 million. The company can renew the lease for 10 years. The investment …

When BMW started charging $18 per month for heated seats in 2022, the backlash was swift and brutal. Customers united to discourage automakers from encouraging this behavior, fearing it would encourage avarice. “You’ve already paid for it!” cried one Redditor. “The fucking hardware is in your car and you paid!” …

Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms and GPU giant Nvidia announced Friday that they are building a large language model trained on India’s diverse languages. The largest Indian corporate firm is expanding into the fast-growing but locally uncontested space. The companies will also build an AI infrastructure “over an order of magnitude …

The Senate’s confirmation of Anna Gomez as the FCC’s fifth commissioner restores its ability to act faster on communication and space regulations. After a year and a half of Republican opposition to Gigi Sohn on questionable grounds, Gomez was nominated in June. She will be the third Democratic commissioner at …

Artists will be among the many groups affected by AI in the coming years, but not everyone. A group of artists wrote an open letter to Congress arguing that generative AI isn’t bad and that the creative community should be involved in regulating and defining the technology. The full letter …

Aria, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, launched on Opera in May to simplify web searches, queries, and coding. Aria is coming to Opera GX, a gaming browser, the company said today. Opera GX users may now immediately interact with a browser AI for gaming news and tips. The business gave gamers …

The U.K. will rejoin the EU’s top science R&D funding program after a long absence due to Brexit. The European Commission (EC) and the U.K. called the news a “landmark moment” for scientific collaboration between the two countries, although they did not mention their two-year-old alliance. Horizon Europe, a seven-year …

IBM unveiled new generative AI models and capabilities on its Watsonx data science platform this week to stay relevant in the highly competitive AI field. The Granite series models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, can summarize, analyze, and generate text. IBM supplied few specifics regarding Granite, making it impossible to …