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Former baby, future ghost. Forbes senior editor writing about transportation & cleantech | ❤️ LA
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change
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Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/five-ways-joe-rogan-misleads-listeners-about-climate-change/
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Scoop: “Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves” me, for
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Trump Wines Sold At Coast Guard Stores On Federal Property
Exchanges in Washington, D.C., and Virginia have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider, allowing his family’s business to earn revenue from sales on federal property.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/11/06/trump-wine-coast-guard-exchanges-stores-federal-property-government/
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AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know. Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model.
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AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know
Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-hallucinates-because-it-s-trained-fake-answers-it-doesn-t-know
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Young Republicans leaders praise Nazis. Here’s why that’s bad news for Zohran Mamdani. by Jonathan Greenblatt
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The New Republic
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Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won.
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The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
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fresh off of winning his $1 trillion pay package from Tesla shareholders, Elon Musk is now explaining how his Optimus humanoid robots will solve health care and crime problems 🤔
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as expected, Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package -- with over 75% voting in favor
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Buckle in. It’s going to be a messy travel weekend.
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More Air Traffic Controllers Could Quit Starting Friday—As These Airports Cut Flights During Shutdown
Sixty-hour workweeks, low morale and missed paychecks have driven air traffic controllers to their breaking point.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/11/06/hundreds-more-air-traffic-controllers-could-quit-cancelled-flights-shutdown/
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Ahead of Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, in which investors will likely approve a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk, some rascal was projecting this on the side of its vehicle distribution center in West Los Angeles
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Aldora Britain Records talked to us about Angel Dust! Check it out here:
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"Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Plan: The Case For Magical Thinking Big funds, advisory firms and the Pope oppose the exorbitant plan"
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Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Plan: The Case For Magical Thinking
Big funds, advisory firms and the Pope oppose the exorbitant plan. Approval means shareholders think the polarizing, distracted CEO can top past successes with an AI-powered strategy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/11/05/elon-musks-1-trillion-pay-plan-the-case-for-magical-thinking/
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as investor Ross Gerber noted, at Tesla's current share price, giving Musk $1 trillion of stock over 10 years = $274 million a day
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.
@wired.com
#ICE
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Let it be known that my proposed hed for this was "Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Plan Makes Perfect Sense If You’re High On Ketamine"
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NEW: Elon Musk's $1 trillion plan: The case for magical thinking
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Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Plan: The Case For Magical Thinking
Big funds, advisory firms and the Pope oppose the exorbitant plan. Approval means shareholders think the polarizing, distracted CEO can top past successes with an AI-powered strategy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/11/05/elon-musks-1-trillion-pay-plan-the-case-for-magical-thinking/
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Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar
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Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offer-free-power-three-hours-dmo/105965472
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Waymo’s first fatality is KitKat, a bodega cat in San Francisco 😿
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Waymo killed KitKat. California neighborhood mourns a corner-store cat
One mourner called KitKat 'the best city bodega cat anyone could ever ask for. His lil pet requests meant a lot for some of us.'
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-03/waymo-kills-kitkat-the-cat-and-san-francisco-mourns
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We're a long way from 2006, when he wanted to make the world better with clean cars and solar power: Elon Musk wants to block out the sun
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Elon Musk Wants to Block Out the Sun
The CEO of the largest satellite company in the world just proposed a bold—and totally misguided—solution to the climate crisis.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wants-to-block-out-the-sun-2000680770
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Great reporting by
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colleague Jeff Kauflin on how the Trump administration's dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is leaving the public vulnerable to a range of abuses
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Trump’s Gutting Of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Leaving The Public Vulnerable To Abuses
A massive dismantling of the financial regulator created to protect consumers is underway, affecting everything from auto lending and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2025/11/03/trumps-gutting-of-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-is-leaving-the-public-vulnerable-to-abuses/
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Nuclear is on the verge of a comeback. But where will the uranium to power new reactors come from?
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Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry - Inside Climate News
After years of federal efforts to revive nuclear power, old mines are stirring again in Wyoming, Texas and Arizona, while new ones line up for permitting expedited by a Trump executive order.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112025/west-braces-for-uranium-boom-as-nuclear-makes-comeback/
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter: 🤖 The unsustainable strain of AI’s insatiable power needs 🔌 Electric cars could get much cheaper 🏭 Rivian’s RJ Scaringe on China’s EV price advantage
#datacenters
#electricvehicles
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The Unsustainable Strain Of AI’s Insatiable Power Needs
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how electric cars could get much cheaper and Rivian’s RJ Scaringe on China’s EV price advantage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/current-climate/2025/11/03/the-unsustainable-strain-of-ais-insatiable-power-needs/
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More than 90% of new renewable power projects commissioned last year were more cost-effective than any new fossil fuel alternatives.
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How China is Powering a Clean Energy Revolution
And bringing cheap electricity and energy security to poor countries
https://leahy.substack.com/p/how-china-is-powering-a-clean-energy
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I sincerely need people who have built LLMs into their daily routine to consider the implications of how they’re being fucked with
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WON IT ALL.
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#DodgersWin
! FINAL (11):
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A new edition of my emerging tech newsletter, The Prototype, is here. What's inside: 💻 Nvidia has announced a bunch of new emerging tech partnerships 🏦 Why AI models can't handle investment banking ⚡ Scientists built a superconducting semiconductor And more!
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Nvidia Expands Into Quantum Computing And Fusion Power
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why AI models struggle with finance, a revolutionary superconducting discovery, Pac-Man and more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prototype/2025/10/31/nvidia-expands-into-quantum-computing-and-fusion-power/
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
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Give that man $1 trillion: Elon Musk’s partisan politics cost Tesla over 1 million EV sales, according to Yale study
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Elon Musk’s Partisan Political Activities Resulted in Over 1 Million Fewer Tesla Sales
YSE Economists Kenneth Gillingham and Matt Kotchen were part of a Yale team that analyzed the “Musk partisan effect” on the company’s U.S. sales.
https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/elon-musks-partisan-political-activities-resulted-over-1-million-fewer-tesla-sales
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New: With Mercor’s new fundraise and $10 billion valuation, its founders become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires at age 22, younger than Mark Zuckerberg was when he hit that status at age 23 two decades ago.
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These 22-Year-Olds Are Now The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires since Mark Zuckerberg’s debut at age 23.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/10/30/mercor-youngest-self-made-billionaires/
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Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!” Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it. New: me, for
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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/10/29/donald-trump-jr-ultimate-machines-defense-contracts-drones/
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make it nice for the mountain lions😺
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Native plants take root on wildlife crossing over 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills
Crews have planted the seeds for a greener future over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills.
https://abc7.com/post/native-plants-take-root-phase-wildlife-crossing-construction-101-freeway/18057640/
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter: ♨️ Next-generation geothermal is ready for its wind and solar moment 🔋 JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials scales up its grid battery business 💡Jennifer Granholm on pushing cleantech companies in the Trump era
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Next-Generation Geothermal Looks For Its Wind And Solar Moment
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Redwood Materials scaling up its grid battery business and Jennifer Granholm on pushing cleantech in the Trump era
https://www.forbes.com/sites/current-climate/2025/10/27/next-generation-geothermal-looks-for-its-wind-and-solar-moment/
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Chart: Solar is driving renewable energy to new heights around the globe
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Chart: Solar is driving renewable energy to new heights around the…
Between 2025 and 2030, the world is expected to build nearly 4,600 gigawatts of renewables — almost double the amount built over the previous five-year…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/renewables-boom-global-solar-installations?amp%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_campaign=canary&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8FAm-pJBBLjhezTbYVl370fwV6OLEA5FsuAdK1TJd7L69DUMr23yfk-vTQbwV08aGZS-1ZWdN_tT1M4vvQhKaB3z_h4A&_hsmi=386714765&utm_source=newsletter
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Could Tesla eventually exit the EV business?
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Ex-Stellantis CEO Sees Tesla’s Musk Pulling Out of Car Industry
Elon Musk erred by devoting too little of his time to Tesla Inc., which is overvalued and being humbled by China’s top electric-car maker, according to Stellantis NV’s outspoken former chief executive...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/ex-stellantis-ceo-sees-tesla-s-musk-pulling-out-of-car-industry
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Flying this weekend?
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Here’s Why Travelers Can Expect Longer Airport Lines Starting Friday
The first missed paycheck was an inflection point in previous government shutdowns and TSA workers expect the same this time around.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/10/22/tsa-screeners-missed-paycheck-longer-airport-lines/
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NEW: JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials raises $350 million to expand its grid and data center battery business
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Redwood Materials Raises $350 Million To Boost Electric Grid Battery Business
Led by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, the company is expanding from battery recycling and materials production to making large-scale energy storage systems.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/10/23/redwood-materials-raises-350-million-to-boost-electric-grid-battery-business/
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Just published: "Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists" me, for
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Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists
In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing the White House's East Wing for a massive ballroom despite preservatio...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/10/22/trump-white-house-east-wing-demolish-tower-bonwit-teller-art-deco/
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“The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power. Sometimes, the backlash against it comes from everywhere but the White House.”
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In Trump’s Washington, Hate Is Not a Deal Breaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-ingrassia-republicans.html
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96 Years Ago Today: Stock Market Invincible
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NEW: Uber is offering $4,000 grants to get more of its drivers to buy EVs
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Uber Pushes Drivers To Go Electric With $4,000 Rebates
The ridehail company is rolling out the incentive to boost its “Uber Electric” option after the Trump administration ended the federal EV tax credit last month.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/10/22/uber-pushes-drivers-to-go-electric-with-4000-rebates/
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New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/
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TikTok Won’t Say If It’s Giving ICE Your Data
Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2025/10/21/tiktok-wont-say-if-its-giving-ice-your-data/
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🚨NEW🚨 In a recently-unsealed warrant ICE's HSI division detailed a case in which it spied on an undocumented immigrant's WhatsApp account. She was dealing fake ID documents. An ICE HSI agent spied on who she contacted on WhatsApp, then identified those contacts.
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How ICE Spies On WhatsApp
ICE’s HSI division gets contacts from the WhatsApp account of a fake ID dealer and has little trouble identifying them, according to warrant.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/
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OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler, now worth $3.6B after raising new funds $6B valuation, says the company’s ultimate goal isn’t just to help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence. New from me &
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OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler $1.3 Billion Richer In Just Three Months After The AI Startup Hits $6 Billion Valuation
OpenEvidence, which Forbes profiled in July, has been signing up users fast. Its ultimate goal: To not just help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2025/10/20/openevidences-daniel-nadler-13-billion-richer-in-just-three-months-after-the-ai-startup-hits-6-billion-valuation/
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Trump and Hegseth waved off concerns about firing live rounds over a super busy Southern California highway next to a Marine base. They hit a Highway Patrol cruiser🤦♂️
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How military’s ‘safe’ plan to fire munitions over Interstate 5 went off the rails with CHP cruiser hit
An artillery round exploded over Interstate 5 at Camp Pendleton, cutting short the military's live-fire exercise.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-20/camp-pendleton-live-fire-interstate-5-shrapnel
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🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts. User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent. First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search.
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OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts
First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/10/20/openai-ordered-to-unmask-writer-of-prompts/
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter: 💧 Cheaper green hydrogen could be on the way 🔋 Rivian’s big bet on a small electric SUV 🥵 Implications of breaching the 1.5-degree global temperature limit
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Cheaper Green Hydrogen Could Be On The Way
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Rivian’s big bet on a small electric SUV and the implications of breaching the 1.5-degree global temperature limit
https://www.forbes.com/sites/current-climate/2025/10/20/cheaper-green-hydrogen-could-be-on-the-way/
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NEW: Rivian's had a tough few years in the volatile, but CEO RJ Scaringe is betting its new R2 electric SUV will mark a big growth phase. “I'm very, very biased, but I think R2 is going to drive a step-change in overall EV adoption”
#electricvehicles
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RJ Scaringe Is Betting His New Electric SUV Will Make Rivian The Next Tesla
The Rivian founder and CEO expects its small SUV R2, priced from $45,000, to be fully competitive with Tesla’s top-selling Model Y when sales begin early next year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/10/20/rj-scaringe-is-betting-his-new-electric-suv-will-make-rivian-the-next-tesla/
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New: We interviewed elderly people who are chatting with AI bots in nursing homes and at home to combat loneliness. “[The calls are] not about anything that's really important, but it gives me something to do,” one senior said. With
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Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship
The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/10/18/lonely-seniors-are-turning-to-ai-bots-for-companionship/
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"It doesn't get more tinfoil hat." The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to investigate *chemtrails,* according to an internal memo
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News
The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of Health and Human Services.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/chemtrails-conspiracy-fringe-theory-maha-kennedy-hhs/
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