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Tesla is pulling the plug on its Solar Roof tiles, the glass shingles that were supposed to make rooftop solar invisible. After years of production struggles and high installation costs, the company has concluded the product simply isn't economically viable. Panels only from here on out.
Sam Altman offered a rare moment of candor this week, telling an audience that the road to superintelligent AI requires a genuine breakthrough — not just more compute or bigger datasets. For a CEO who has built a company on bold promises, that kind of blunt admission about the limits of current large language models is worth sitting with.
And Apple Music is preparing to label tracks generated by artificial intelligence, expanding what it calls Transparency Tags to flag AI-made content for listeners. It's a small but meaningful step in a broader industry reckoning over how to distinguish human artistry from algorithmically assembled audio, and it raises real questions about what we value in music.
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