Revolutionizing the Electric Vehicle Industry: VW-backed Chinese Startup Unveils 1,000 km Range Battery

Volkswagen-backed Chinese battery maker Gotion unveiled an “affordable” EV battery, saying it offers an over 1,000 kilometer range on a single charge, roughly double the current standard. Gotion said the lithium-manganese-iron-phosphate (LMFP) battery has passed all safety tests and its mass production will begin in 2024. Before this, LMFP materials were considered unwieldy to use…

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OpenAI planning Wikipedia-like public approval of AI bot entries

GPT-4-maker OpenAI’s President and Co-founder Greg Brockman said his firm is exploring the idea of having public approval of entries of AI chatbots, similar to the model followed by online encyclopedia Wikipedia. “We’re not just sitting in Silicon Valley thinking we can write these rules for everyone…We’re starting to think about democratic decision-making,” Brockman said.

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Improve stock price to get pay raise: Microsoft CMO to staff after pausing hikes

Microsoft’s CMO Chris Capossela told employees that their best option to increase their pay is to make the company’s stock price go higher, Fortune reported. “Great quarterly results contribute to making the stock attractive which in turn drives everyone’s total compensation up,” he said. Earlier, Microsoft said it will not give salary hikes to full-time…

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IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI over time, pauses hiring certain positions

IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna has revealed plans to pause hiring for about 7,800 positions that could be replaced by artificial intelligence systems over time, according to a Bloomberg news report published Monday. Krishna said that hiring in back-office functions like human resources will be suspended or slowed, affecting roughly 26,000 non-customer-facing roles. That will include…

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