Tesla announced today it will begin laying off about 14-thousand workers. That's about 10-percent of its workforce.  We wanted to know whether this was a Tesla problem ... or a problem with the E-V market in general.

KNX News spoke with Stephanie Brinley, automotive analyst at Standard & Poor's ... She says the E-V market is in the middle of a really messy period of transition.

Brinley says outside of California, the rest of the country is proving to be reluctant about E-V's.

But is that switch away from gas-powered vehicles to electric ones ... inevitable?

Tesla announced today it will begin laying off about 14-thousand workers. That's about 10-percent of its workforce.  We wanted to know whether this was a Tesla problem ... or a problem with the E-V market in general.
KNX News spoke with Stephanie Brinley, automotive analyst at Standard &amp; Poor's ... She says the E-V market is in the middle of a really messy period of transition.
Brinley says outside of California, the rest of the country is proving to be reluctant about E-V's.
But is that switch away from gas-powered vehicles to electric ones ... inevitable?

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KNX BIG STORY:  Are Tesla's layoffs an Elon Musk problem ... or a warning about the electric vehicle market?

That encampment has been on campus almost a week, and some students say it's making it hard to get to class or the library. KNX News' Nataly Tavidian reports. 

Plus, USC officials are investigating a swastika found near campus. 

That encampment has been on campus almost a week, and some students say it's making it hard to get to class or the library. KNX News' Nataly Tavidian reports. 
Plus, USC officials are investigating a swastika found near campus.

UCLA is beefing up security around pro-Palestinian encampment

The city is facing a huge deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. Mayor Karen Bass has released her proposed budget. The city council's budget committee may ask for some changes. 

The city is facing a huge deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. Mayor Karen Bass has released her proposed budget. The city council's budget committee may ask for some changes.

L.A. city officials need to make some serious budget cuts

Alden Global Capital, the owner of eight major newspapers in cities across the U.S. has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.

They are claiming that generative artificial intelligence models are being fed human-created reporting ... and then essentially ripping it off.

This comes after the New York Times filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, earlier this year.

Richard Tofel is a consultant who formerly served as president of the independent news reporting outlet Pro-Publica; he writes a substack called Second Rough Draft.

He explained to us the copyright principles at stake; Tofel says newspapers are arguing that human created articles and reporting are just being re-purposed by AI:

Several other news outlets ... including the Financial Times and Associated Press ... have made similar claims about A-I models stealing from their reporting.  

But instead of a lawsuit, the outlets have worked out compensation deals to be paid by OpenAI and Microsoft.

Alden Global Capital, the owner of eight major newspapers in cities across the U.S. has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.
They are claiming that generative artificial intelligence models are being fed human-created reporting ... and then essentially ripping it off.
This comes after the New York Times filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, earlier this year.
Richard Tofel is a consultant who formerly served as president of the independent news reporting outlet Pro-Publica; he writes a substack called <a href="https://dicktofel.substack.com/">Second Rough Draft</a>.
He explained to us the copyright principles at stake; Tofel says newspapers are arguing that human created articles and reporting are just being re-purposed by AI:
Several other news outlets ... including the Financial Times and Associated Press ... have made similar claims about A-I models stealing from their reporting.  
But instead of a lawsuit, the outlets have worked out compensation deals to be paid by OpenAI and Microsoft.

KNX BIG STORY: Are Tesla's layoffs an Elon Musk problem ... or a warning about the electric vehicle market?

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