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China Is Sending Its World-Beating Auto Industry Into a Tailspin(2025-09-18 00:00:20)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: On the outskirts of this city of 21 million, a showroom in a shopping mall offers extraordinary deals on new cars. Visitors can choose from some 5,000 vehicles. Locally made Audis are 50% off. A seven-seater SUV from China's FAW is about $22,300, mor...
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Chimps Drinking a Lager a Day in Ripe Fruit, Study Finds(2025-09-17 20:00:12)

Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager's alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. BBC: They say this is evidence humans may have got our taste for alcohol from common primate ancestors who relied on fermented fruit -- a source of sugar and alc...
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AI's Ability To Displace Jobs is Advancing Quickly, Anthropic CEO Says(2025-09-17 15:00:05)

The ability of AI displace humans at various tasks is accelerating quickly, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at an Axios event on Wednesday. From the report: Amodei and others have previously warned of the possibility that up to half of white-collar jobs could be wiped out by AI over the next five ye...
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Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels(2025-09-17 10:00:08)

The home appliance industry would like you to believe that gas-burning stoves are not a risk to your health -- and several companies that make the devices are scrambling to erase their prior acknowledgements that they are. From a report: That claim is at the heart of a lawsuit the Association of Hom...
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China Tells Its Tech Companies To Stop Buying All of Nvidia's AI Chips(2025-09-17 05:00:08)

China's internet regulator has told the country's biggest technology companies to stop buying all of Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips and terminate their existing orders, as Beijing steps up efforts to boost its homegrown semiconductor industry and compete with the US. From a report: The Cyber...
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