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Will Gulf states join war? Sudan's soaring fuel prices make getting by harder for workers Share Sudan's soaring fuel prices make getting by harder for workers on social media Azhari Mohamed drives his minibus and eight passengers seven times a day from the Shagar neighbourhood in the Port of Sudan to the city centre and back again. But despite the long hours - working from 6am to 9pm - fuel shortages in the city have made it difficult for the 60-year-old to make a living. With fuel increasingly difficult to obtain, he now spends two days on the road and a third day queuing for fuel. He can spend more than five hours waiting in line when he needs to fill the tank of his minibus and often finds petrol has run out before his turn comes.

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Wall Street has projected Tesla to report $27.9bn in revenues. Wall Street has projected Tesla to report $27.9bn in revenues. Musk says'there's a lot of merit' to potential merger that would require approval of 50% of all Tesla shareholders, but he declined to elaborate Investors were paying close attention to Tesla's third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday afternoon, after chief executive Elon Musk floated the idea of merging the car company with his rocket and AI company, SpaceX. But they didn't glean further information after the company announced there would be no questions on the matter. "With regard to a potential merger with SpaceX, I think I said everything that should be said yesterday," Musk, the CEO of both companies, said on Tesla's earnings call.

Anthropic and Elon Musk's SpaceX have committed billions of dollars in stocks to benefit the public all while dodging accountability. The Hyperloop track failed to materialize and was dismantled in 2022. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Elon Musk's SpaceX and AI giant Anthropic have said they will give billions of dollars in shares to the public as general sentiment around the technology's economic and societal consequences continues to plummet. "Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America," Musk posted on X on Monday.

At the world's biggest chipmaking complex, Samsung is building the fabs it needs for the AI memory boom. Samsung's new fabs are clad in Mondrian-style panels of red, yellow, and blue. It's just before noon on a Monday, and construction workers are pouring out of Samsung's fabs in Pyeongtaek, a farming city south of Seoul where rice paddies abut a sprawling chipmaking complex. Thousands of workers, dressed head to toe in black with sky-blue vests, take off helmets bearing their names and fab numbers. They walk to lunch, sweaty and flushed, in chunky sneakers capped with yellow rubber toe guards. Some hop on scooters or motorcycles to get around the campus, which covers an area about the size of New York City's Central Park.

Removing human drivers isn't only a cost-cutting strategy; Waymo riders prefer the solitude, the staff writer Molly Fischer says. A Waymo offers a unique experience: you ride as a passenger behind or next to an empty driver's seat, the steering wheel turning as though handled by a ghost. The staff writer Molly Fischer has been reporting on Waymo, and she tells David Remnick that though the statistics are hard to parse, Waymos appear to be safer than cars driven by humans. Fans of Waymo prefer not putting themselves in the temporary custody of a stranger, but, Fischer says, this appeal is precisely what makes Waymos' glitches scariest. Now that her reporting is done, Remnick wants to know: Would she take one of the robot taxis by choice?

Wayve robotaxis leave the depot on the day the company launched autonomous passenger rides in London via Uber last month. Wayve robotaxis leave the depot on the day the company launched autonomous passenger rides in London via Uber last month. 'We should all be worried': calls grow to limit London rollout of robotaxis Protest planned at Wayve HQ as Uber drivers fear for their future and city's politicians demand TfL should have power over licences For passengers in Britain who want to try the latest ride, robotaxis are eagerly awaited: more than 100,000 are on Uber's waitlist in London after the first UK services started in September. Others view them with trepidation. "I think we should all be worried," said Florentina Ghiuzan, an Uber driver from Essex.

The automaker unveiled its next luxury sports car at an event in Texas. It has thrusters on it that can send it airborne. On Thursday night, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk unveiled what's been billed as the company's last human-driven car. Maybe human-piloted is a more accurate way to say it. At a demonstration event McGregor, Texas--at SpaceX's rocket development and testing facility--the new car did what Musk has long promised.