Week in the review: start running Jeff Bezos EV

Welcome again a week in review! We have a lot of great things for your reading fun this week: Jeff Bezos Backs EV Startup Slate; It accuses the amounts of those reported to the collusion company; Waymo may use internal camera data; And much more. Let’s get it!

I want this: Slate, start starting EV, has An ambitious target for construction The two -seat Beck App truck at an attractive price of $ 25,000. She gathered a major war chest in the service of this goal, with the support of Jeff Bezos, and hopes to enter her car in production in late 2026.

China’s complicity: Sarah Win Williams, former head of public policy on Facebook, who wrote a book on her time on Facebook, He witnessed before the US Senate this week. Her testimony was hot, as you can imagine. According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook, now known as Meta, with the Chinese Communist Party “to” undermine US national security and betray American values. “

Wait, what? Trefor Milton, the founder of Nicolas who was recently pardoned after being convicted of securities fraud, Trying to buy assets From his previous company of bankruptcy. It is not clear whether any other parties have made offers of Nicolas’ origins.

---

This is the techcrunch week in the review, where we summarize the largest news of the week. Do you want to deliver this newsletter to your inbox every Saturday? Subscribe here.

---

news

Say “cheese”: According to an unpublished version of Waymo’s privacy policy, the self -driving car company is Planning to use data from robotaxisIncluding the video of the internal cameras associated with the identities of the contestants, to train artificial intelligence models. It seems that users will be able to withdraw.

Return, return, return again: On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order that supports coal for the data center authority. The government will be directed to Set the coal as a critical metal And prevent the closure of some coal -powered power plants, which requires it to continue to work.

How to be rich: Berkshire has revealed some information about BerkSHire How should the flight attendants Illon Musk serve on aircraft. According to the evidence, Musk seems not “interested in maintaining fuel” because it “wants to fly as soon as it is direct.” He also loves to keep the cabin at 65 degrees.

Talent cliff: CTO Mira Mirati former CTO MIRATI from Openai, thinking laboratories, thinking about thinking, I rented some prominent names In this field to be advisers – Bob McGu, chief research official at OpenAI, and Alack Radford, a former Openai researcher behind many company’s transformational innovations.

Dropbox: Dropbox chief customer official, Eric Cox, who joined the company in 2023, StepsAccording to the SEC presentation. It is not yet clear who will be replaced.

I got HVAC in my mind: The founder of the founder Nest is known to Matt Rogers about rolling with punches. “The nest does not necessarily do whatever I have appointed to do years ago,” Rogers told Tim de Chant. “It’s one of the things when you sell a company.” But Rogers was unable to do so He shakes his obsession with fruits.

A thorn stick in it: At a summit that explores how artificial intelligence affects education, the US Education Minister Linda McMahon referred to Amnesty International as “A1”, such as a steak sauce. During a committee, Amnesty International said at the beginning, but it became increasingly less consistent, which led us to believe that it knows the difference and that it is just a slide. Delicious and delicious.

analysis

$$$$$: Amnesty International itself is very expensive for companies to operate, but we discovered that testing these models can be very expensive as well. OPENAI thinking, for example, costs $ 2,767. Claude 3.7 “hybrid” is one of the models of anthropologist in the anthropors, the “hybrid” thinking model in the same set of tests is $ 1,485.35. Compare this to the cost of Openai’s O1-MINI ($ 141.22) and Claude 3.7 unusual Sonnet predecessors ($ 81.41). Kyle looks at Why the measurement becomes more expensive The models become larger and more complex.