🪂 World's First Flying Car

🪂 $750 Million in Preorders for World’s First Flying Car

We might start seeing flying cars very soon.

Alef Aeronautics, a Bay Area startup, is making progress toward its goal of building and selling the world’s first flying car.

The company has already banked over $750 million in preorders for its flying cars, which cost around $300k each.

In June, Alef gained Federal Aviation Administration approval to run flight tests in limited locations and anticipates a public demonstration by the end of the year.

Alef’s vehicle is fully electric, can fly 110 miles on one charge, and can operate on most roads at a limited speed of around 25 mph. It can also fit into standard parking spots.

Alef plans to start selling cars in 2025, but there are still some big questions that need to be answered, such as whether a regular driver’s license will suffice to operate one and what rules cities will have for their aerial roadways.

And yes, each car has a parachute for emergency landings!

🕸️ How to Keep OpenAI's GPTBot Away from Your Site

OpenAI has released a new web crawler, GPTBot.

The web crawler will collect publicly available data from websites, while avoiding paywalled, and prohibited content.

However, the system is opt-out, meaning that by default, GPTBot will assume accessible information is fair game.

To disallow GPTBot from ingesting your website, you'll need to add a "disallow" rule for GPTBot to your site's robots.txt file.

OpenAI says it will remove any personal or sensitive information from its dataset, but is that enough?

📚 YouTube's AI Breakthrough Allows for Detailed Indexing

YouTube has recently introduced an experimental feature that can auto-generate descriptions for videos.

This is a significant development because, until now, computers could only understand the title, metadata, and comments associated with a video. They couldn’t actually watch the video and take notes.

But with this new feature, AI can index the video just as it indexes text.

This means that in the near future, you’ll be able to search for specific content within videos, such as “How to stir-fry chicken” or “car chase with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Omar Sharif,” and the AI will be able to find it for you.

The feature is currently only available for a limited number of English-language videos and viewers.

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