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SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, the NHTSA called out autonomous cars, and Volkswagen is employing 100 sheep at a solar farm in Poland

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-SpaceXAi says Grok 4.5 is its smartest model yet, built specifically "to excel at coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work." It was trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs on datasets full of coding, science, engineering and math information.  -The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is demanding action from autonomous car makers after identifying "a clear pattern of driverless AVs interfering with law enforcement and other first responders" over the past months. -There are now 100 sheep grazing at the solar farm that powers Volkswagen's manufacturing plant in Poznań, Poland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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