🤖 Europe bets on its own self-driving future
Ursula von der Leyen’s making a pretty loud case for an “AI-first” mobility push - one that’s less about hype and more about European pride, honestly. The idea is to bankroll local pilot programs for autonomous cars and back Europe’s own automakers before the U.S. and China eat their lunch. It’s got that moonshot energy… but with roundabouts and rain-soaked highways.
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🚨 New U.S. export rule stirs AI industry panic
The Commerce Department’s fresh “50% rule” now ropes in subsidiaries that are half-owned by sanctioned groups. Sounds technical, but AI companies are already saying it’s a nightmare for cross-border R&D. Bureaucracy dressed in geopolitical clothing - and somehow everyone’s supposed to clap for it.
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📈 Altman jokes about being replaced by AI (maybe not joking?)
Sam Altman casually mentioned in an interview that if an AI outsmarts him, he’d step aside - maybe to start farming, of all things. Beneath the humor, he dropped a wild estimate: AGI could show up before 2030. Depending on who you ask, that’s either confident foresight or borderline sci-fi optimism.
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💰 Bubble or boom - depends who you ask
A recent Washington Post op-ed draws an uncomfortable parallel: today’s AI investment scene looks suspiciously like markets right before a crash - funds folding into funds, companies funding themselves, and everyone pretending they’re early, not reckless. Genius and greed, dancing again.
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📦 eBay quietly hands ChatGPT to sellers
In a surprisingly grounded move, eBay’s giving 10,000 sellers access to ChatGPT Enterprise. The pitch: write listings faster, chat with buyers smarter, and pull data insights - all without extra fees. It’s not flashy, but it’s how revolutions in e-commerce usually start.
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