Andrew J. Hawkins

Doug DeMuro, YouTube’s favorite car reviewer and our foremost expert on automotive quirks and features, is getting a significant cash injection from the Chernin Group. The investment group behind a number of online creators, including Barstool Sports, MeatEater, and Exploding Kittens, said it would invest $37 million in DeMuro’s Cars and Bids website, which under the deal will merge with his YouTube page to form one entity. Congrats to Doug — now buy yourself a fancy knee pillow to celebrate.

Reuters spotted Elon Musk in Washington, DC today meeting with two top advisors to President Joe Biden, John Podesta and Mitch Landrieu. Ostensibly the meeting was about the EV tax credit (still confusing!) and ways the administration can continue to help promote EV sales. If you’ll recall, Musk and Biden have not been on the friendliest terms: Biden has snubbed Tesla many times over the years, while Musk has openly mocked the president as unfriendly, sleepy, and too close to the unions.

Sure, all the images look like those bad renderings that real estate firms put out thinking they’ll make their projects seem less soulless and evil. But using AI to remove cars and add greenery and happy looking pedestrians and cyclists is the only worthwhile application of AI image generators that I’ve seen so far.