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China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/china-ev-ai-fea…

China’s EV price war turns into AI arms race beyond cheaper cars
Chinese EV firms are rapidly rolling out in-car AI features to gain an edge, but as the price war drags on, those technologies are quickly becoming commoditized.

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Future Islands:
🎵 Sail
#FutureIslands
https://futureislands.bandcamp.com/track/sail
https://open.spotify.com/track/5s4UUYyaJjYnR9ebX1JYm7

Someday people will learn that LLMs don’t “hallucinate” but it’s inherent (and unfixably so) to them that they generate wrong strings of words.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/frontier-models-medical-advice-x-rays-cant-see

"Supertrawlers Are Taking Antarctic Krill That Whales Depend On"
#Krill #Whales #Oceans

Supertrawlers Are Taking Antarctic Krill That Whales Depend On
In the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, whales and other marine mammals rely on krill to survive. But as the market for human dietary supplements and animal feeds booms, and climate change reduces krill populations, scientists worry there may not be enough to go around.

Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth
(Un)officially delayed to 2027, Venice comes first.

This week GitHub starts training on your code by default. For me, code reuse is probably the most ethical AI use case. But turn off training if you're worried about others using your code unethically:
Settings > Copilot > Features > Privacy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Father John Misty:
🎵 Real Love Baby
#FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/track/real-love-baby-6
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Z57YWES04xGh3AImDz6Qr

"As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can’t Break Its Coal Addiction"
#China #Renewables #Energy

As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can't Break Its Coal Addiction
Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to deliver on its climate promises.

AirPods Max 2 review: comfortable, excellent sound quality, and lots of new features, but retains the same design, pricey, and only one hearing health feature (Billy Steele/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/apple-ai…

Apple AirPods Max 2 review: Better late than never
The H2 chip delivers a host of new features for the AirPods Max 2, but it's time for a comprehensive redesign on these pricey headphones.

Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be "the first company in American history to offer" them, to be "fully regulated" by the CFTC (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/29/kalshi-perps-perpetual-futures-cryp…

Kalshi to offer perpetual futures contracts in prediction market expansion
Kalshi announced Friday that it will begin offering perpetual futures contracts — a form of derivatives that moves the prediction market a step further into financial markets beyond yes-or-no trades.