Sunday, October 1, 2023

Q&A with Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on licensing the autonomous electric tractor startup's tech to other companies, the future of farming, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on licensing the autonomous electric tractor startup's tech to other companies, the future of farming, and more  —  Monarch Tractor's Praveen Penmetsa has a grand vision for agriculture, and it includes autonomous electric smart tractors powered by AI.



Sources: John Giannandrea's team built a next-gen search engine, "Pegasus", for Apple's own apps, used in Spotlight and Siri, and coming soon to the App Store (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Giannandrea's team built a next-gen search engine, “Pegasus”, for Apple's own apps, used in Spotlight and Siri, and coming soon to the App Store  —  Apple has the wherewithal to launch its own search engine, a replacement for Google.  And Microsoft even approached the company about helping make that happen.



Ukrainians fear new Chinese rules restricting the export of cheap consumer drone components could worsen Ukraine's supply chain woes in their "war of drones" (New York Times)

New York Times:
Ukrainians fear new Chinese rules restricting the export of cheap consumer drone components could worsen Ukraine's supply chain woes in their “war of drones”  —  As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines.



Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on competing with Nvidia's H100, PyTorch, AI regulation, the CHIPS Act, diversifying from TSMC, the global supply chain, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on competing with Nvidia's H100, PyTorch, AI regulation, the CHIPS Act, diversifying from TSMC, the global supply chain, and more  —  At this year's Code Conference, the CEO of one of the world's largest computer chip companies discusses competing with Nvidia's leading GPU …



The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...