GM aims to cut vehicle development to ~2 years from 4-5 using AI, per CNBC and The Verge.
Next-gen cars get 40x the computing power, starting on the Escalade IQ in 2028, when eyes-off highway driving is due. OnStar AI arrives within months.
Can Detroit move this fast?
#GM #AI
General Motors is cutting development times in half, introducing a 40x more powerful central compute unit, and rolling out autonomous driving to its highest-volume trucks and SUVs. theverge.com/transportation/…
Update, per Wired: OnStar AI will debut on the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq. Paired with a new app, it starts with voice control of car functions, like turning on the air conditioning without digging through menus, and can run diagnostics.
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Micron workers in Taiwan walked out on Thursday, the first strike ever in Taiwan's chip industry, per Nikkei Asia.
The union at Micron's Taoyuan facility is fighting over bonuses and profit-sharing, as the AI boom brings memory makers record profits.
#Micron #Taiwan
Taiwan's first-ever chip workers strike begins at Micron plant s.nikkei.com/4zMtJRk
Sam Altman told Matthew Berman he hopes AI finds a candidate for curing or treating a major disease "in the next couple of years."
He said that candidate would still have to go through testing, and "the FDA process is going to take a while."
#OpenAI #SamAltman #ForwardFuture
OPAL lets Claude Code rewrite a PyTorch optimizer mid-training. On ImageNet image generation it beat the official recipe: FID 1.83 vs 2.18, per the authors.
About 100 agent decisions cost $6.42 at Opus 5.5 list price.
Most runs were done once.
#OPAL #PyTorch #ClaudeCode
Tesla and SpaceX have each formed a special committee on a potential merger, at shareholders' request, Elon Musk said on SpaceX's earnings call.
He said he's conflicted and can't join the talks: "I don't think we should assume that a merger is a certainty."
#SpaceX #Tesla
Elon Musk today on a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla:
"Both Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees at the request of shareholders. Because I'm a conflicted party I can't be in on these discussions. I don't think we should assume that a merger is a certainty. Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes. But at the end of the day, shareholders have to be supportive of this. The special committees have not reached an agreement on any transaction, and it doesn't mean they will, but there is a lot of be gained from cooperating on SI, chip design, robots, mass or orbit, connectivity. I think it would be a good idea."
Update: advisers within Musk's companies are pushing to announce a SpaceX-Tesla merger by the first half of 2027, so a deal could close while Trump is still in office, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
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Also from the call: Tesla will start selling Cybercab to customers by year-end, per TechCrunch. VP Lars Moravy said it will "start small"; today's Cybercabs all go to Tesla's own fleet.
US regulators are still probing whether it meets safety standards.
techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/te…
35B parameters, Apache 2.0: Shanghai AI Laboratory released Sage-A1.5, an open MoE agent model, on Hugging Face.
It splits work across parallel subagents and checks its own progress. Self-reported: 95.1 on GAIA, 61.2 on SWE-bench Pro.
#ShanghaiAILab #OpenSource
Source: Hugging Face (Shanghai AI Laboratory)
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Mark Zuckerberg is considering leaving California if voters pass a one-time 5% tax on billionaires, Meta said in a filing, per Bloomberg.
California votes on the measure next month.
#Meta #Zuckerberg
Filing: Meta says Mark Zuckerberg is considering leaving California if it passes a one-time 5% tax on billionaires; voters will decide on the measure next month (@pierrepaulden / Bloomberg)
(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Update, from the filing itself: under a new "Founder Alignment Agreement" with Meta, Zuckerberg commits to live in California, or wherever Meta's HQ is, for 8 years.
It holds while he leads Meta full time, barring "material unforeseen circumstances."
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Deploy on Railway? Rotate your secrets now.
Railway says an attacker may have accessed customer environment variables and decrypted some. It recommends rolling every env var, API key and registry credential, and checking logs. Deploys are paused.
#Railway #Security
An urgent notice from the Railway team
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Microsoft says Storm-0940, a China-state aligned group, used ARTEX, an open-source agentic AI pentest tool, to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations since September.
It also ties the group to the recent ConnectWise supply chain compromise.
#Microsoft #Cybersecurity
Source: Microsoft Threat Intelligence
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