NASA vs. China, Bots vs. Truth, and Lyft’s Swagger Wagons

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In this episode:

Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
Musk's $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises
Lyft’s first ‘robotaxis’ are live in Atlanta
Amazon's Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch

Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast

Google reframes its statements about the "rapid decline" of the open web
Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake'
Grok can rewrite Wikipedia to remove falsehoods and add missing context: Elon Musk
Virginia Tech adopts artificial intelligence into the admissions process
“AI Inbreeding,” The Phenomenon Threatening Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership
OpenAI Realignment to Give Nonprofit Over $100 Billion Stake - Bloomberg

Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity executive says Meta endangered billions of users in new suit
Signal’s first paid feature adds encrypted media and message backups
Introducing Signal Secure Backups
Robinhood, a Broker Built for Social-Media Age, to Launch Its Own Social Network

Weird and Wacky:

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights
How to make metals from Martian dirt - CSIRO
Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes also vulnerable
OpenAI-Backed AI-Made Animated Movie Headed to Theaters
This 30-year-old CEO says his AI negotiator can successfully haggle down the price of a car by thousands of dollars

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