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Bloomberg
14-04-2025
- Automotive
- Bloomberg
GM's Mary Barra Has to Make a $35 Billion EV Bet Work in Trump's America
Businessweek The Big Take The US automaker is up against tariffs, an oil-loving president and Elon Musk in the White House. By The Ultium Cells factory outside Nashville spans five football fields and runs 24-7, cranking out 5,000 finished battery cells an hour. The site and a sister plant in Ohio are co-owned by General Motors Co. and South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd., and together they can make enough cells to build a new electric vehicle nearly every minute—most of them GM cars. Although the plants aren't near full capacity, they already produce more cells than Tesla Inc. does in North America. Inside the factory, fewer than 250 workers on the day shift are watching computer screens or monitoring a network of chemical mixers, coating machines and drying ovens that brew the essential ingredients of a battery and slather the resulting slurry onto rolled-up metal sheets. The sheets are then cut and stuffed into pouches, which will serve as the battery cell, and are set to cure at about 140F (60C). Later, a system of shelves moving up, down and side to side stacks the cells, each long and slender like a giant envelope, on blue racks 40 feet high. In this rickhouse for high-tech spirits, the cells go through a sort of fermentation process known as finishing that lasts 10 days.
Bloomberg
24-03-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
Businessweek The Big Take Big changes are underway for the internet's most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same. By and Davey Alba One day in 2021, Google's web search team presented leadership with what was, at the time, a novel proposal: Rather than just have the search engine serve up its familiar list of links, have a chatbot greet visitors at the search results page and offer to answer questions directly. This wasn't necessarily a shocking idea. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai had been talking for years about redesigning Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, around artificial intelligence, and the organization ran DeepMind and Google Brain, two of the world's most sophisticated AI labs.
