Subj : Tesla robotaxi service ¨, Anthropic CEO on DeepSeek ¨, Kubernetes history inspector ¨¨ To : All From : TLDR Date : Thu Jan 30 2025 11:34:12 --lMo06VUu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Elon Musk claimed during a recent earnings call that Tesla plans to launc= h a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C= =C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80= =8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C= =C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80= =8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0 Sign Up [1] |Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR = =09=09TOGETHER WITH [Bardeen] [4] TLDR 2025-01-30 BARDEEN = INTRODUCES THE AI COPILOT FOR GTM TEAMS: =E2=80=9CIT'S LIKE AN IRONMAN SU= IT FOR GTM PROFESSIONALS =F0=9F=9A=80=E2=80=9D (SPONSOR) [4]=20 GTM tea= ms are drowning in tool bloat.=C2=A0 Companies spend $4,830 per employ= ee who use 275 SaaS apps [4] on average, and these tools rarely talk to e= ach other, forcing precious human hours to be spent acting as glue. = Bardeen's AI Copilot [5] is here to restore productivity and sanity. 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Elon Musk claimed during a recent earni= ngs call that Tesla plans to launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in= Austin, Texas, in June. The vehicles will use the yet-unreleased 'unsuperv= ised' version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software. That software is expec= ted to be released to Tesla owners in California and other regions in the U= S this year. Tesla owners will not be able to add their cars to the Tesla r= ide-hail fleet until at least next year.
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China secretly building wor= ld's largest nuclear fusion laser, US satellite exposes (3 minute read)

China is developing a laser fusion rese= arch facility in the southwestern region of the country. It will be larger = than the US National Ignition Facility, the current world's largest inertia= l confinement fusion facility. The new development could have huge implicat= ions for both nuclear weapons research and clean energy production. China h= as not revealed the purpose of the facility.
Stem cells used to partiall= y repair damaged hearts (4 minute read)

A group of German researchers have deve= loped a method for repairing the heart using new muscle generated from stem= cells. The results are promising and they have started clinical trials. Th= e technique involves creating sheets of cells and combining them into a sin= gle patch that can be attached to the heart's exterior. In experiments, the= scientists found that the added tissues integrated into the hearts functio= nally and immature stem cells did not form tumors. The implants weren't pro= blem-free - some of the stem cells in the sheets appeared to be uncommitted= to a mature state and one animal generated an immune response to the impla= nted cells.
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On DeepSeek and Export Cont= rols (28 minute read)

DeepSeek's achievements make export con= trol policies more existentially important than they were a week ago. Expor= t controls keep democratic nations at the forefront of AI development. The = idea that the technology getting cheaper and more powerful is a reason to l= ift export controls makes no sense - they are one of the most powerful tool= s for preventing authoritarian governments from behaving aggressively on th= e world stage. DeepSeek's release is roughly on the expected cost reduction= curve, which big tech has already factored into its calculations - it will= still require billions of dollars of infrastructure to make AI that is sma= rter than almost all humans at almost all things.
Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, v= ows to spend hundreds of billions on AI (2 minute read)

Mark Zuckerberg said during Meta's firs= t-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that the company will be investing ver= y heavily in AI this year. Meta considers DeepSeek a new competitor, but it= says that it is way too early to tell if demand for chips will stop increa= sing, as they are still crucial for inference. The company is aiming to mak= e Llama 4 the world's most competitive model. Llama 4 is expected to have m= ultimodal and agentic capabilities.
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Waymo reportedly testing ro= botaxis in 10 new cities in 2025 (1 minute read)

Waymo will send less than 10 vehicles t= o each city, where they will be manually driven.
OpenAI Alleges DeepSeek Use= d Its Models for AI Training (1 minute read)

OpenAI says it has evidence that Chines= e AI startup DeepSeek used a technique called 'distillation' to use its mod= els to train a competing open source model.
=E2=80=9CEverything that mo= ves will be robotic=E2=80=9D: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots and self-= driving cars are just around the corner (4 minute read)

Jensen Huang believes that Nvidia will = have a big role to play in a future where we are surrounded by robots.
Microsoft brings a DeepSeek= model to its cloud (2 minute read)

DeepSeek R1 is now available on Microso= ft's Azure AI Foundry service.
Meet Alibaba's Qwen 2.5, an= AI model claiming to beat both DeepSeek and OpenAI's ChatGPT (2 minute rea= d)

Alibaba's Qwen 2.5-Max reportedly outpe= rforms GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B.
SoftBank in talks to invest= as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says (2 minute read)

SoftBank may invest up to $25 billion i= n OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see it spend more than= $40 billion on AI initiatives.

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