Apple Hits the Brakes on its EV Dreams | Bytes: Week in Review | Marketplace Tech

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🛑Biden Administration Blocks Foreign Data Sales: President Biden signs an executive order halting the sale of American user data to "countries of concern," addressing national security worries.
📈Chip Supplies Improve: Nvidia remains a top player in the GPU market, with stable chip supplies driven by increased demand and a new GPU rental service from AWS
🚘Apple Cancels EV Plans: Apple scraps its decade-long effort to develop autonomous electric cars, reallocating resources to internal AI projects.
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In my opinion, it is telling that Apple has stopped work on an autonomous vehicle. Achieving the reliability and safety of, at least, the average human driver is apparently much harder than one would think. The solution may indeed require AI more like the fictional HAL of 2001 A Space Odyssey; a self aware AI that values its own existence as well as the existence of its passengers. (Yes, I am disregarding the part where HAL attempts to neutralize its passengers.) It would, therefore, be prudent for Apple to focus on AI first.