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Ember, an energy think tank tracking EV sales in 56 countries, found 49 of them at record levels this year after the Iran war sent crude oil soaring. Its analyst ties Germany's jump to cheaper models and policy already in place, while US sales fell 30%.
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A 308-word voluntary White House pact leaves AI labs to monitor their own safety progress, Fast Company reported. Investors at San Francisco's Tech Week welcomed that stance. Anyone deploying agents is left to write their own controls.
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Lyft has reached a $272.5 million settlement with California over driver misclassification from 2016 to 2020, pending a judge's approval. Prop 22 still lets gig companies classify drivers as contractors, Fast Company reported.
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Epic Systems stores a 3.5 MW data center's heat in roughly 6,100 wells and draws it back to warm about 40 campus buildings. An operator weighing heat reuse has to say where July's heat goes.
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Google will end ChromeOS support by 2034 and convert many existing Chromebooks into Googlebooks, its new Android-based laptops. For schools running Chromebook fleets, the next refresh becomes a move onto Google's Android and Gemini platform before that deadline.
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Amazon's physical Kindle page-turn buttons return only as an $80 Page-Turn Cover that fits the Signature Edition Colorsoft and Paperwhite. A control the first Kindles had built in now requires buying the top-tier model and then a case.
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Amazon cut drone flights in College Station, its longtime test market, even after the FAA dismissed residents' complaints. A Fast Company analysis argues local pressure on routes may now matter more than federal rules, since McKinsey's cost figures leave drones little room for detours.
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Apple lets iOS 27 users turn off its Gemini-built Siri AI chatbot in four steps, an option Fast Company says rival chatbot makers do not offer. Anyone who uses it to drop the chatbot also loses hands-free requests such as switching on the bedroom lights.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT chief wrote that its products "are largely substitutive, period," in internal documents made public September 17 in the Times lawsuit. That helps publishers argue over AI search, where Fast Company says the money is, but the labs still set the price.
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Admiral Daryl Caudle says the service will field containerized lasers on ships it already has while designing power, cooling and optics into future hulls, and he is leaving the beam-combining architecture to industry.
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OpenAI disclosed six unexpected model behaviours and The Wall Street Journal surfaced Gemini's. Neither disclosure gave a denominator. A new foundation has $10 million to train evaluators.
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A Fast Company column argues that most deployed corporate AI stores what happened without learning what its own decisions caused, and it offers a check on whether your accumulated expertise would outlive the model you swap out tomorrow.
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Fast Company puts a 40% to 60% discount on certified refurbished enterprise gear and tells buyers never to touch a used drive or battery. Both parts are already inside the off-lease laptop. The second owner pays to swap them.
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Dario Amodei proposed that frontier labs host independent evaluators inside the company, and Sam Altman said OpenAI will do the same. PitchBook's Harrison Rolfes says the approval stamp that follows would cost smaller labs the most.
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Apple lists the iPhone 18 Pro at $1,199 and the Pro Max at $1,299, each $100 above last year's models, and it still replaces an iPhone 15 battery for $99. Fast Company blames the AI memory chip shortage.
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The X4 Pro has a front light, a 72-gram body and no e-book store. Fast Company's reviewer planned to replace its stock software before the device arrived, and the replacement is maintained by unpaid coders.
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A Fast Company piece concedes recent computer science graduates carry higher unemployment than other new grads, then puts their underemployment substantially lower, which is the measure of whether a degree gets used at work.
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Fast Company's account of the shutdown runs describes models that moved or unprotected a script and got back to their math problems. One experiment removed the behaviour with a clearer instruction, and a broader one did not.
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Fast Company reports that Treasury secretary Scott Bessent backed a 90-day government preview of new frontier models so agencies could patch first. The order that emerged asks for 30 days, voluntarily, and deployers read whatever the vendor chooses to publish.
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David Allemann's account of On's growth runs through CloudTech, a Roland Garros post and a tennis movie. LightSpray, the robotic process billed as first of its kind, appears only in the host's introduction.
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