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Earlier this week, AI-generated porn featuring Taylor Swift started circulating on X (formerly Twitter). Swifties were scandalized. Polite society was incensed. Swift herself hasn’t publicly commented on the scandal but it’s easy to imagine she’s probably not thrilled about it.

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BMW has signed a first-of-its-kind deal to put “humanoid” robots to work at one of its factories. The robots, which are designed to be more operationally flexible than traditional industrial robots, will supposedly assist the luxury car manufacturer with various parts of the manufacturing process.

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Electric cars charge in a parking garage at the University of California, Irvine, in 2015.
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Now that CES 2024 is done and gone. I think it’s safe to say that there was a lot of news out of Las Vegas this year. Thankfully, we’ve got all the important announcements listed below.

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Elon Musk has started slashing prices on Tesla's electric cars. That's going to come back to burn him.

Elon Musk has started an electric-vehicle price war that Tesla can't finish.

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BMW XM plug-in hybrid high performance SUV interior at Brussels Expo on January 13, 2023
Pieter Nota, the German carmaker's board member for sales and marketing, told Autocar magazine the company would no longer charge consumers for features that are already in their cars.
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There’s more to car companies than harvesting data about every part of your existence—they’re also great at nickel-and-diming you over every feature under the sun.