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Car manufacturers are turning away from Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in favor of native infotainment systems. The trend has generated a fair bit of controversy, with critics labeling it as an industry-wide pivot toward subscription models and data-related cash grabs. Executives, meanwhile, have billed the move as providing a more seamless, functional in-car experience.

AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF — and, as of last week, terms like “opaque recurrence,” the reasoning technique in…

Audi debuted the A2 e-tron, dubbing it the most efficient model in the carmaker’s history. Unlike its higher-end EVs such as the RS e-tron GT Performance, the humble A2 e-tron occupies Audi’s compact entry-level segment with a design focused on delivering peak energy efficiency. According to Audi, its latest EV has an energy consumption of…

Telluride just managed one of its best-kept secrets in years, per The Hollywood Reporter. On Sunday night, festivalgoers filed into a 650-seat theater with their phones locked away, having no idea what they were about to see, told only that it ran nearly three hours, hadn’t been shown anywhere, and that its principal creators would…