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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Apple Ends Effort to Make Its Own Electric Car

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: OpenAI seeks to dismiss a lawsuit from The New York Times. And cable giant Cox buys software provider OpenGov. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Tuesday, February 27th. I'm Alex Osila for the Wall Street Journal. Apple has put an end to its decade-long multi-billion dollar effort to build its own electric vehicle.

0:36.0

The secret group inside the iPhone giant, known internally as Project Titan,

0:40.0

has been informed that Apple will be shutting down its efforts in building a car while the company

0:44.6

ramps up investments in the area of generative artificial intelligence.

0:48.4

That's according to a person familiar with the situation.

0:51.4

Some of the employees inside the group will be shifting to

0:53.6

Apple's AI group while other employees working on car hardware will likely face

0:57.6

layoffs. Open AI has moved to dismiss a lawsuit from the New York Times.

1:02.8

The Times is suing Open AI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement.

1:06.8

The Times has claimed that Open AI used its content to create AI tools

1:10.6

and that these tools divert traffic from the Times website.

1:14.0

In a court filing, Open AI argued for the dismissal of parts of the case.

1:18.0

Open AI said that certain allegations were more than three years old and the company didn't have actual knowledge of the specific acts of

1:24.0

alleged infringements. The company also disputed part of the Times' complaint alleging that the

1:28.8

Times had quote paid someone to hack open AI's products.

1:33.2

And we exclusively report that Cox Enterprises

1:36.3

is buying OpenGov.

1:37.9

Cox, a big family-owned communications provider,

1:41.0

already held a big minority stake in OpenGov, a software provider for

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