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Richard Lawler

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    Eli Lilly says it will cap its out-of-pocket insulin prices at $35 per month.

    In November, a fake (but Twitter Blue verified) account said Eli Lilly would make its insulin free, highlighting a situation Cory Zapatka explained in 2019 about the rising prices for something many people need to stay alive.

    Now NBC News and the New York Times confirm the drugmaker has actually announced a 70 percent price cut on “its most commonly prescribed insulins,” and an expanded program to cap out-of-pocket patient costs.

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    Green light.

    And we’re back! With news from YouTube’s new leader Neal Mohan that, of course, includes generative AI, in addition to last night’s big scoop about the next few years of Meta VR and AR hardware.

    This evening, however, we’ll be watching Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day event — here’s a preview of what to expect.

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    Nothing’s next phone will have high-end power.

    While the Nothing Phone 1 is “A good midrange phone underneath a whole lot of hype,” the US-bound sequel is ready for more.

    Today the company confirmed that, unlike its predecessor’s midrange Snapdragon 778 chipset, the Phone (2) has a higher-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Series inside — although it didn’t specify between Gen 1 or Gen 2.

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    Rivian lost $6.8 billion last year, but its 400-mile “Max Pack” EVs are on their way.

    This evening Rivian released its Q4 earnings (PDF), noting that the electric truck builder lost more than $1.7 billion over the three-month period, with $663 million in revenue while delivering 8,054 vehicles.

    It also said that later this year, customers will start getting deliveries of the R1S and R1T with the company’s “Max Pack” battery and Enduro motor for long-range capability, though it won’t be available with a quad-motor all-wheel drive setup.

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    Are you exaggerating what your AI product can do?

    The FTC is casually warning companies to not do that in their advertisements, despite all of the current hype around AI bots and generative technology of all types.

    Does the product actually use AI at all?

    If you think you can get away with baseless claims that your product is AI-enabled, think again. In an investigation, FTC technologists and others can look under the hood and analyze other materials to see if what’s inside matches up with your claims. Before labeling your product as AI-powered, note also that merely using an AI tool in the development process is not the same as a product having AI in it.

    Keep your AI claims in check

    [Federal Trade Commission]

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    Green light.

    Mobile World Congress continues, the Tesla Investor Day event is coming up tomorrow, and there is more news we’ll be able to tell you about soon.

    Just... not right at this second.

    Give it a few minutes.

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    Chevy’s 2024 Blazer EV spotted on the streets.

    This Reddit post might be the first sighting of a Chevy Blazer EV in the wild without camouflage (replies in the thread say you can tell it’s not the cheaper Equinox based on the door handles).

    The SUV is scheduled for release this summer, although if you’re out and about, you may see one even sooner than that.

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    Elon Musk inserts himself into the Dilbert fiasco to proclaim that “The media is racist.”

    The weekend tweet by the once-again world’s richest man reacted to the reaction to Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ YouTube rant about Black people — that video was deemed unacceptably racist enough that newspapers and his syndication partner cut ties with the cartoonist.

    In response, Musk says that these days, The Media is actually “racist against whites & Asians.”

    There’s another call for a Twitter ad boycott, while The Information reports Musk is seeking people to build a ChatGPT AI alternative that isn’t so “woke.”

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    Unrolling Lenovo’s latest laptop and phone concepts at MWC 2023.

    Just when we were getting used to foldable phones, tablets, and laptops, these concept designs suggest rollable screens are in the near future, ready to extend the view by a few more inches when you need them to, without taking up more space in your pocket or bag.

    Jon Porter is at Mobile World Congress 2023 this week and can show you Lenovo’s rollable screen laptop plus its Motorola-branded rollable phone.