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[ad_1] Tesla has secured $30 billion in new credit lines that could help it scale new products it’s currently working on: the CyberCab Robotaxi, the Optimus robot and the Tesla Semi. The company announced Tuesday that Citibank has agreed to a $20 billion three-year deferred-draw term loan facility. Wells Fargo also signed an $8 billion … Read more

[ad_1] AI startup EliseAI announced Tuesday that it has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, double what it was valued at when it raised its Series E last August. This latest round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Ventures. AliceAI, founded in 2017, automates administrative and operational tasks for housing and healthcare … Read more

[ad_1] Modern vehicles built with connected car technologies like WiFi and GPS collect information about their owners. And that information is no secret, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Northeastern University. This conclusion is not new — there have been numerous investigations and lawsuits revealing how driving data is collected and shared … Read more

[ad_1] On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new product called Dots, an always-on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar. While the colorful avatar may elicit laughs, the biggest laugh at the launch is (we imagine) Elon Musk, the former OpenAI founder who left, launched competitor Grok and was unsuccessfully sued. Because the “dot.com” domain belongs … Read more

[ad_1] The US government launched its own AI chatbot on Tuesday – or should we call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot, as a public AI tool hosted by the government, would surely have known that the internet was up against this thing. The government partnered with Google … Read more

[ad_1] Apple started rolling out Apple Pay in India on Tuesday, as first reported by TechCrunch. Its first banking partner is Axis Bank, the third largest private sector lender in the country. The move brings the company’s payments service to the world’s most populous country after years of delays in a market dominated by the … Read more