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The electric Dodge Charger Daytona is turning heads for the wrong reasons right now. Lease deals on the electric version are coming in dramatically higher than its gas-powered counterpart, and once you dig into the residual values and incentive structures, the math starts to tell a familiar story about EV adoption still fighting an uphill battle.
Shifting north of the border, Canada is putting serious money behind artificial intelligence, announcing an investment of up to one point six billion dollars in Toronto-based AI company Cohere. The move signals Ottawa's intent to compete on the global AI stage, backing a homegrown large language model company that's been quietly building enterprise tools for some of the world's biggest businesses.
And on the creative side of the developer world, a programmer has built something called Pretty Git Tree, a browser-based tool that transforms your git commit history into generative visual art. It's a fascinating idea, born from burnout and the very human need to see your invisible labor represented as something tangible and beautiful.
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