FRANKFURT Daimler has been forced to reduce production targets for its Mercedes-Benz EQC electric car from about 60,000 to 30,000 this year, due to a supply shortage of battery cells from LG Chem, Manager Magazin said on Thursday. Daimler wanted to sell arou…
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Month: January 2020
If the words ‘new’, ‘AI’, ‘for’, ‘the’, ‘physical’, ‘world’, ‘accelerate’ and ‘Facebook’ scare you, click this headline
A reinforcement-learning algorithm was open-sourced this week by Facebook that can train AI bots to navigate simulations, with each droid armed with just a camera, GPS, and a compass and no map. Dubbed decentralized distributed proximal policy optimization, …
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Tesla Reaches $100 Billion Valuation
Teslas valuation would leave Dr. Evil quivering, bombs might get in the way of a new factory in Germany, the EU has to deal with Trump, airbags arent your friend, and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. 1st Gear: Eleven Zeros After a de…
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The Cruise Origin Is An Expected Step In Autonomous Vehicles But There Are Many Unanswered Questions
Cruise Automation, the autonomous vehicle startup owned by a big bank and GM, along with help from Honda, seems to have a gift for hyperbole. In a tweet, the company suggested that they were aiming for their new autonomous shared ride van to have the same sor…
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Tesla Market Value Hits $100 Billion USD
Tesla is officially the first publicly-listed U.S. carmaker to surpass $100 billion USD in market value, as shares went up 3.6% to $566 USD on January 22. The news comes only two weeks after Tesla overtook Ford to become the highest-valued automaker in Ameri…
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