Transportation
…The reasoning is that EV owners need to help pay for road and infrastructure improvements, since they don’t pay the gas tax that funds the Highway Trust Fund. But EV advocates…
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Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike
…Contributors have discussed measures like blocking banners calling for donations to the WMF, which could cut into the foundation’s funds. The version of a strike proposed by Kelly, however, would…
The military embraced AI long before Claude
…The actual project already existed and had already got a funding stream. It was to use AI against satellite imagery, but then it got repurposed for drone video imagery. This is because…
The promises and pitfalls of personalized health
…According to The New York Times, focusing the name on one symptom of the condition — ovarian cysts — has led to inadequate clinical training, poorer research funding, delays in diagnosis, and fragmented care…
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…The way that we’re managing budgets, especially on tech, is fundamentally different from how we did three, four years ago. All right. One last AI question, then I want to talk…
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
…These AI systems are fundamentally nondeterministic. They’re not predictable in the way that they operate, and that actually is what makes them powerful. There’s the bad side of hallucinations and…
Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks
…Ohanian, who stepped down from Reddit in 2020 and now runs the 776 Fund, has expressed similar views on social media, but it hits differently when he says it in person, to…
Mass Transit
…The Hardest-Working Turnstile in the Subway [ Curbed ] NYC will test AI gun detectors on the subway Gaby Del Valle Mar 28, 2024 Joanna Nelius Mar 26, 2024 MTA’s redesigned subway…
Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit
…kids’ online safety within the national AI framework, IVF and surrogacy access, and its biggest goal, federal funding for HIV prevention. (Hack told me that they were about to announce the hiring…