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1. Chinese Search Engine Giant Releases Latest AI Model

2. Tesla Begins Testing Full Self-Driving!

3. New Motorola’s Razr 2025 Series Embraces AI

4. My Fav Story of the Day

5. Some people might find these People Funny (Britishers at it again)

6. CTA: Asking you to follow the LinkedIn Account

Chinese Search Engine Giant Releases Latest AI Model

On Friday, Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant, introduced its latest artificial intelligence model, Ernie 4.5 Turbo.

Despite rising competition in the Chinese AI sector, it is speeding up AI product offerings. It also introduced its new reasoning model, Ernie X1 Turbo, which is now the talk of the town (the world, actually)

Billionaire creator Robin Li told a developer conference in Wuhan that the 4.5 Turbo is 80% less expensive than its predecessor, while the X1 Turbo, Baidu's equivalent to DeepSeek, is half the price. Baidu's stock gained more than 5% in Hong Kong on Friday.

📎 Finance Yahoo

🚗 Tesla Begins Testing Full Self-Driving!

Targeting an initial set of workers, Tesla has launched a test run of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) supervised ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The service has now accumulated 15,000 miles (24,140 km) and made more than 1,500 journeys.

By incorporating technologies like car allocation and remote assistance, this trial seeks to improve Tesla's self-driving network.

📎 TechCrunch

📱 New Motorola’s Razr 2025 Series Embraces AI

The Razr, Razr+, and the high-end Razr Ultra are among the Razr foldable smartphones that Motorola has shown for 2025. The deep integration of artificial intelligence, branded Moto AI, is the primary focus of this launch. It includes technologies such as Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini, Perplexity AI, and Meta's Llama.

Key AI features include Catch Me Up for summarizing notifications, Remember This for memory recall, Pay Attention for transcribing and summarizing conversations, and Next Move for predictive actions.

📎 Wired

My Fav Story of the Day

Somalia's Unbelievably Profitable Pirate Stock Exchange

In 2009, a town in Somalia started a real “Pirate Stock Exchange.”

Locals could invest money, weapons, or supplies to help pirates hijack ships. If the pirates got a ransom, investors got a share of the money.

Some people made tens of thousands of dollars in just weeks. The town saw new cars and buildings… thanks to pirate profits. But it was risky and illegal, and the government eventually cracked down.

Today, piracy in the area is way down, and the Pirate Stock Exchange is gone.

When there are no jobs or laws, people can get creative, even if it means investing in pirates!

📎 Read the whole story here

A Group Called “Everyone Hates Elon”

A group called Everyone Hates Elon is making waves in London with cheeky, fake ads and wild stunts aimed at Elon Musk.

Their pranks include plastering the city with posters mocking Musk and Tesla, sneaking parody ads onto buses, and even turning a Tesla into a “rage room” where people could smash the car with sledgehammers, all in the name of poking fun at Musk’s political meddling and massive wealth.

Their message is simple and very British: call out billionaires, make people laugh, and show that activism doesn’t have to be boring.

As one organizer puts it, “We can’t outspend Musk, but we know we’re funnier than him”.

📎 Catch the Full Story

The Final Byte

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– Person Writing This

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