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ELON MUSK CLAIMS TESLA WILL LAUNCH A SELF-DRIVING SERVICE IN AUSTIN IN JUNE

Elon Musk claimed during a recent earnings call that Tesla plans to launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June. The vehicles will use the yet-unreleased 'unsupervised' version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software. That software is expected to be released to Tesla owners in California and other regions in the US this year. Tesla owners will not be able to add their cars to the Tesla ride-hail fleet until at least next year.

THE X EVERYTHING APP WILL LAUNCH THIS YEAR, AIMING TO COMPETE WITH APPLE PAY

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that X will launch its Everything App this year. The app will allow for secure and instant funding to X Wallets via Visa Direct. Users will be able to connect their debit cards for P2P payments. There will be an option for users to instantly transfer funds to their bank accounts.

CHINA SECRETLY BUILDING WORLD'S LARGEST NUCLEAR FUSION LASER, US SATELLITE EXPOSES

China is developing a laser fusion research facility in the southwestern region of the country. It will be larger than the US National Ignition Facility, the current world's largest inertial confinement fusion facility. The new development could have huge implications for both nuclear weapons research and clean energy production. China has not revealed the purpose of the facility.

STEM CELLS USED TO PARTIALLY REPAIR DAMAGED HEARTS

A group of German researchers have developed a method for repairing the heart using new muscle generated from stem cells. The results are promising and they have started clinical trials. The technique involves creating sheets of cells and combining them into a single patch that can be attached to the heart's exterior. In experiments, the scientists found that the added tissues integrated into the hearts functionally and immature stem cells did not form tumors. The implants weren't problem-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 implanted cells.

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KUBERNETES HISTORY INSPECTOR

Kubernetes History Inspector is a log visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters that transforms vast quantities of logs into an interactive, comprehensive timeline view. It is an invaluable tool for troubleshooting complex issues that span multiple components within Kubernetes clusters. The tool uses existing logs, allowing users to troubleshoot past issues as long as logs are still available. Examples of the interactive timeline visualizations the tool produces are available in the repository.

MATHESAR

Mathesar is a web app that enables users of all technical skill levels to view, edit, query, and collaborate on PostgreSQL databases using a familiar spreadsheet-like interface. It is self-hosted and can be deployed in minutes. Mathesar works directly with PostgreSQL databases, schemas, and tables without extra abstractions. Data never leaves users' servers and there is access control based on PostgreSQL roles and privileges to keep databases secure.

ON DEEPSEEK AND EXPORT CONTROLS

DeepSeek's achievements make export control policies more existentially important than they were a week ago. Export controls keep democratic nations at the forefront of AI development. The idea that the technology getting cheaper and more powerful is a reason to lift export controls makes no sense - they are one of the most powerful tools for preventing authoritarian governments from behaving aggressively on the 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 smarter than almost all humans at almost all things.

ZUCK SHRUGS OFF DEEPSEEK, VOWS TO SPEND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS ON AI

Mark Zuckerberg said during Meta's first-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that the company will be investing very 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 increasing, as they are still crucial for inference. The company is aiming to make Llama 4 the world's most competitive model. Llama 4 is expected to have multimodal and agentic capabilities.

WAYMO REPORTEDLY TESTING ROBOTAXIS IN 10 NEW CITIES IN 2025

Waymo will send less than 10 vehicles to each city, where they will be manually driven.

OPENAI ALLEGES DEEPSEEK USED ITS MODELS FOR AI TRAINING

OpenAI says it has evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used a technique called 'distillation' to use its models to train a competing open source model.

“EVERYTHING THAT MOVES WILL BE ROBOTIC”: NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS ROBOTS AND SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER

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

DeepSeek R1 is now available on Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service.

MEET ALIBABA'S QWEN 2.5, AN AI MODEL CLAIMING TO BEAT BOTH DEEPSEEK AND OPENAI'S CHATGPT

Alibaba's Qwen 2.5-Max reportedly outperforms GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B.

SOFTBANK IN TALKS TO INVEST AS MUCH AS $25B IN OPENAI, REPORT SAYS

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