TNB Tech Minute: xAI Appears to Confirm Talks with Oracle Ended

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus, electric car makers Lucid and Fisker issue safety recalls. And French software maker Dassault Systemes cut its revenue guidance. Zoe Thomas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O. C.I. is the single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and
0:05.3	AI needs. Do more and spend less like Uber, 8 by 8, and Databrics Mosaic.
0:11.4	Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com
0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:17.0	Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Tuesday July 9th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the
0:22.3	Wall Street Journal.
0:24.3	Elon Musk appeared to confirm in an ex post today that his artificial intelligence company
0:29.6	X-AI has ended talks to expand an existing arrangement with Oracle to rent NVIDIA chips.
0:36.9	Musk said X-A-I is building a supercomputer with a hundred thousand NVIDIA graphics processing
0:42.4	units.
0:43.0	These are the chips behind training and operating generative AI programs.
0:47.0	According to Musk, X-AI was contracting 24,000 NVIDIA chips from Oracle.
0:53.8	Two electric vehicle makers, Lucid Group and Fisker, are recalling thousands of recently
0:58.8	manufactured vehicles over issues that could cause a loss of power.
1:03.0	Lucid said more than 5,200 vehicles could potentially be impacted by its recall.
1:08.0	The issue has caused vehicles to lose power while driving in at least 10 instances according to a report from
1:14.2	regulators. The company transmitted an over-the-air update to vehicles to correct the
1:19.4	issue last month. Owners who haven't updated their software will be notified to do so in August.
1:25.0	Meanwhile, Fisker said more than 7,500 vehicles could be affected.
1:30.0	Impacted owners will have to get their vehicles' cabin electric water pumps replaced at no cost.
1:35.7	Fisker isn't aware of any accidents or injuries reported in connection with the recall,
1:40.1	according to a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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