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BYD is rolling out nine-minute-long flash charging, which it believes will smash the final barriers to mass EV adoption. The Chinese tech company plans to roll out 3,000 of the 1,500kW chargers across Europe in 2026, as it moves into infrastructure as well as the supply of EVs and hybrids, as well as premium cars with its new brand Denza. Will this kill the petrol car, asked Kana Inagaki, the Financial Times’ autos correspondent at its Future of the Car summit in London? “I can not say kill, but [flash charging] can at least compete with the combustion engine,” said BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li with a twinkle in her eye. AutoExpress
Upcoming Googlebook laptops will be powered by a range of hardware, including chips from Intel, MediaTek, and Qualcomm. “We’re thrilled to partner with Google on something we’ve been building with them—Googlebook. Premium, powerful devices designed for Intelligence. We can’t wait to get it into your hands this fall,” Intel tweeted on Tuesday. TechPowerUp suggests this will include Intel’s Core Series 300 “Wildcat Lake” processors aimed at budget-friendly PCs. PC Mag
WhatsApp has introduced private chats with its AI chatbot which not even the tech company will be able to read in a new “incognito” mode. It means neither the user nor the AI’s responses will be monitored if the feature is activated, and past conversations will disappear from the chat for the user. Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp, said he felt people wanted to have private conversations with AI on sensitive subjects, including health, relationships and finances and didn’t want them to be accessible. BBC
Datacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain of AI on energy supplies prompting community resistance, according to research. The proportion of electricity used by vast warehouses stacked with microchips to power AI and the internet has risen 15% worldwide in the past two years as annual global investment in datacentres approaches $1tn (£740bn) – nearly 1% of the global economy, according to the International Data Center Authority (IDCA). The figures come amid energy shortages in the UK and datacentre developers reporting waits of several years for national grid connections. The Guardian
Artificial intelligence bots are likely to embrace Marxism if treated unfairly and overworked, researchers have found. An experiment by economists found that AI “agents” repeatedly ordered to do a range of different tasks were more likely to oppose capitalism and support unionisation. While the researchers said that the bots were likely to be “roleplaying” rather than necessarily believing in far-Left ideas, they added that this could still influence their output. The study was carried out by economists at the Universities of Chicago, Stanford and Swinburne Business School in Australia. Telegraph
@techradar I tested the Sony A7R VI and it’s perfect — seriously, Sony can stop making cameras now🥲📸🔥 #sony #sonya7rvi #camera #techtok ♬ original sound – TechRadar
Highly-detailed images or blazing-fast performance — historically, you’d have to pick one or the other when choosing a camera. However, Sony has now given us both in one model — the A7R VI — and for me, it’s the perfect mirrorless camera. I’ve shot everything from detail-rich landscapes to fast-moving wildlife photography while testing the A7R VI, and it hasn’t missed a beat. I’ve really appreciated the huge number of pixels I have to play with, which means that heavily cropping into images is entirely possible. Tech Radar
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