By Proterra Team The commercial electrification market is entering 2026 in transition. Regulatory frameworks are being rewritten. Federal incentives are under review. OEMs face uncertainty about which compliance standards will govern their products. 2026 will be a year of clarification; some applications will prove economically viable now while others will … [continued]
A recent study published in Nature found that participants’ preferences in real-world elections swung by up to 15 percentage points after conversing with a chatbot. The researchers concluded that, as AI models become more sophisticated, they hold a sizable persuasive advantage for powerful actors behind our screens. Bots have a … [continued]
While much of the news this week has been discouraging, recent reports about BYD’s over-the-air (OTA) updates have provided something positive to think about. In particular, the OTA updates have focused on BYD’s DM-i 5.0 (5th generation PHEV platform), which started rolling out across models in China last year. Consumers … [continued]
Fossil fuel companies like Exxon see powering data centers as an important new revenue source and are making promises they can’t keep.
Trump’s Executive Order Threatens Consumer Protection Options COLUMBIA, S.C. — An executive order issued by Donald Trump last week could block state guardrails around artificial intelligence and the infrastructure needed to run AI data centers, including popular state-level initiatives, known as large load tariffs, that help ensure tech companies have financial skin in … [continued]
As with any “new tech,” there’s a lot of hype and dreams and enthusiasm about what kind of wonderful future the tech can bring. However, there are also inevitably negative ramifications, side effects, and bad things people and companies will end up doing with the tech. In the case of … [continued]
The rush to build more and bigger data centers to power the AI revolution is getting pushback from an array of opponents in the US.
A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing binding constraints on generation and transmission. When presented with competing requests for hundreds of … [continued]
Yesterday, I covered Donald Trump’s latest effort to pretend he’s king and violate states’ rights, an AI executive order. (Apologies if he’s already tried to act like king in some other way and I’ve missed that.) The executive order tries to force fossil fuel pollution on more people, among other … [continued]
By Waymo AI Team Autonomous driving is the ultimate challenge for AI in the physical world. At Waymo, we’re solving it by prioritizing demonstrably safe AI, where safety is central to how we engineer our models and AI ecosystem from the ground up. As a result, we’ve built an incredibly … [continued]
