TNB Tech Minute: Elon Musk Boosts Pay for Tesla AI Engineers

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

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Plus: Ford delays the launch of its latest electric vehicle. And Disney plans a crackdown on password sharing. Alex Ossola hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The less your business spends the more margin you keep.
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0:09.5	helping you reduce costs everywhere.
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0:19.4	slash Wall Street right now.
0:21.2	Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Thursday, April 4th. I'm Alex
0:27.2	Oscela for the Wall Street Journal. Tesla is raising the pay for its
0:31.3	artificial intelligence engineers in a bid to ward off poaching
0:34.6	from other companies like Open AI.
0:37.1	That's according to a series of posts on X from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
0:41.6	Open AI didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
0:44.0	Tesla's AI efforts have so far focused on driverless cars and humanoid robots.
0:49.0	Ford says it's delaying the launch of a new three row electric vehicle to 2027.
0:55.0	Ford said it would still produce the EV at its Oakville Assembly plant in Canada,
0:59.0	which the company is planning to overhaul from gas vehicle production to an EV manufacturing plant.
1:04.3	Ford said it's still investing in ramping up EV production at other facilities.
1:08.7	The company said it is also boosting production of hybrids.
1:12.1	And Disney is planning to crack down on
1:15.1	password sharing for its streaming services. It will start with a few countries in June
1:19.2	before implementing a wider rollout in September. For months, the company has set a crackdown was coming
1:25.0	as it looks to cut costs and make Disney Plus and Hulu profitable.
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