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Today, Bodie Grimm tells us about a few EVs that you might have missed, and Duolingo is going AI first. What's that mean? We'll find out. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Shannon Morse. Let's start with what you need to know with a big story.
Yes, Duolingo, which we actually talked about recently in relation to a chess kind of tool, a chess learning tool anyways. This is a very different story. This is, of course, the popular language learning app. They've announced that the app will become and the company will become an AI-first company. They have plans to gradually replace contract workers with artificial intelligence for tasks that can be automated.
CEO Louis Van Aan shared this vision in an all-hands email. That email was also posted to the company's public LinkedIn feed. It's not like it was done surreptitiously. It was done by the company on their LinkedIn feed. The plan involves phasing out contractors for work that AI can handle, for integrating AI into the hiring and performance reviews process, also limiting new hires unless automation isn't possible, and focusing AI on retention.
repetitive tasks. Von Ahn emphasizes that the move isn't about replacing full-time employees, so full-time employees, you're safe, but about removing bottlenecks and scaling content production at a time when AI can do in months what would otherwise take years, at least kind of a
According to this specifically, the note calls out that the company will, quote, gradually stop using contractors to do work that I can handle. End quote. You can imagine, Shannon, if you go to the LinkedIn post for this. I mean, sure, there's a lot of applause, emojis and everything. But boy, are there a lot of comments and people are not happy. It's kind of.
It's kind of the time we're in right now, right? Like there's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of different ways. And a note like this, maybe the intention was to be like, rah, rah, check it out. We're stepping into this new era. But I think to some people it falls on deaf ears because they're just like, read the room. Yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of discourse around AI, especially when it comes to hiring and replacing potential jobs. And I do realize that with contractual work, usually that is project based, and it's not going to be a permanent position that people are taking on. So you do end up leaving that company at some point, eventually, when that project is over. But
When you're posting this on social media, there is going to be a ton of discourse. And there's also a lot of issues around using AI for hiring and for performance reviews. There have been previous studies that show that AI does have a potential bias there, especially if it's looking at things like resumes or if it's looking at performance reviews and reviews.
using these different biases to come up with its own basic review process. So there's a reason to still have humans there reviewing those processes as well, because they may see something that AI might potentially get wrong. So there's definitely a place there and a reason for a lot of this discourse.
Yeah, it is worth noting that this is not like the first step towards this. We have had some indications from Duolingo. Actually, last year, they reduced their contract workforce by 10%.
So it kind of seems like this is an evolution of that trajectory. And Duolingo is not alone. Shopify shared a memo recently insisting that employees prove why they can't get done what they want.
want to get done by asking for more resources, but with AI. And so this is just part of, I think, a trend in technology companies right now is... And the memo that was posted on LinkedIn even specifies this. We don't want to be late.
If we sleep on the movement that's happening right now in the workforce and in technology with artificial intelligence, we run the risk of falling behind. Duolingo, they were app first. They were app first when a lot of other companies weren't doing the app only thing back in the early 2010s. And that was part of the reason that they…
excelled and exceed and and were able to find success in what they were doing and so i think they see this as like another version of that potentially
So it's interesting, too, because related to this is an economic study in Denmark by economists Anders Humlum and Amalie Vestegaard, who analyzed the impact of AI chatbots on 11 different occupations often cited as vulnerable to automation. This study found no significant effect of AI chatbots on earnings or hours worked, and
and little measurable effect on job loss or wage reduction. It did, however, find that workers' new job tasks, like reviewing AI output for mistakes, kind of like what I was mentioning with checking those review processes, offsets the time savings gained from automation. Also, productivity gains were marginal, with users saving 2.8% of their work hours using those tools. Yeah.
Yeah, definitely. Definitely seems like a stark contrast to the decisions made by Duolingo, because I think largely that the report in some ways is saying, look, you know, your jobs are not at threat anymore.
Yet, although, you know, contract work going away, it's not like that those aren't jobs and they go away. But to your point earlier, if you're a contract worker, you probably, you know, just be real with the fact that your job is not a permanent position and that, you know, it's always kind of on rocky ground until, you know, for whatever decisions that the companies make. That's true.
But it is interesting here, and I'm curious to know your take, because I use AI tools for certain things in my job, and we were just hanging out not too long ago. I know that you do for some of your job as well. And the conception is AI tools make all of these things so incredibly easy, it's going to eliminate all these jobs. But
I can admit for myself, like it does make certain things easy, but it also adds a lot of work in other ways that I don't know that I come out net positive by more than 2.8 percent, really.
It really does. I think that part of the argument could be made that you have to understand and train yourself to give the proper prompts to AI in order to have it give you the outputs that you're expecting or that you need it to give you in your workplace. And that's going to require training.
which does include additional hours in order for you to understand this new software, this new AI component that you're using in your job place. So yes, it does increase some of the work there. But there's also the potential that if you're using AI, you might add additional projects to your current work because you think, oh, if AI can do this, I can do other things too. So you're not saving any work, but you might be outputting more.
more for your job. So how much how much work how much additional work do you want to add on top because you're now using AI, I found that I've been doing that quite a bit like increasing my outputs because I am using AI. But so on the one hand, I'm like, it's not saving me a ton of time. But at the same time, it's giving me more output, which could potentially increase my profitability.
Yeah, I can't remember the name of it, but there's that concept or that idea that no matter how much time you have with a certain task, you're going to fill that time with that task. So if you have like an hour versus three, somehow you'll figure out how to fill the three hours versus the one hour if that's all you literally have for it. So it's kind of the same with AI. It's like, yeah, I made that easier, but then it made all this room for all this other stuff and you're never any less busy than you were before. Yeah.
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Amazon is denying a report by Punchbowl News that reported the company plans to highlight the cost impact of U.S. tariffs on its product prices on site. A spokesperson for the company told The Washington Post that the Amazon haul team had, quote, considered listing import charges on certain products.
but that it was not a consideration for the main site. The White House strongly criticized the alleged plan in response to the report, calling it a, quote, hostile and political act by Amazon. Yeah, it's, I mean, everything...
Everything, I think, in this realm can be reduced down to spin. So it's hard to know exactly what's going on here. But based on what they're saying now, especially what Amazon is saying right now, hey, hey, hey, cool your jets. We were just considering certain import charges being represented with Amazon haul, which was a division of Amazon that I got to admit I wasn't too aware of. I guess it's like a bulk amounts of low cost goods.
or something along those lines. Anyways, doesn't sound like it's going to apply to everything if they even choose to do that at all, especially in light of this. So we'll see.
U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passed the bipartisan Take It Down Act. This is aimed at combating the spread of nonconsensual intimate images online. This, of course, includes deepfake nudes, revenge porn, that sort of stuff. The bill makes it a federal crime to knowingly distribute or threaten to public to publicize explicit images.
images or videos of individuals without their consent, whether they are real or if they happen to also be digitally manipulated. Also required is a 48-hour removal window to such content once requested by the victim. Some privacy advocates, of course, on the flip side of this, analyzing it, they're concerned about how the law could be misused to suppress legitimate content. But, I mean, this was overwhelming. House and Senate officials
I think there were two votes against and everyone else was right, right in line. So I'm applauding the U.S. Congress for once in my life. I am applauding Congress for all agreeing and making this a bipartisan effort. I think this is wonderful, especially for for young women in the states. We've we've dealt with a lot of this stuff. So it's it's great. I'm really happy to see this.
Amazon launched the first 27 satellites of its Project Kuiper fleet yesterday after a lengthy delay due to bad weather. This is the first of a planned 80 missions to deploy a total of 3,236 satellites into low Earth orbit to provide global satellite broadband Internet in competition with the SpaceX Starlink network.
Now, Amazon aims to start service later this year, first targeting underserved and rural regions where Internet access is limited. Wow. 80 missions, 3,236 satellites. That's a whole lot of Amazon satellites. How does space have that much room? I don't even know. Actually, I do because space is gigantic.
This will be pretty cool. I'm excited to see how this will impact like going hiking and being able to have Internet access while I'm out and about, especially up in the mountains of Colorado. There's a lot of places where Internet just completely gives out and you have to be really careful on hikes and when you're skiing. So this could potentially be very, very a good effort to keep people in contact. Yeah. Yeah. The more the better. Really?
Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly conducted an unauthorized experiment on Reddit's r slash change my view subreddit. They were using AI generated comments to persuade other users into changing their opinions on sensitive issues while impersonating different personas, avatars, and analyzing different
the user's posting histories as well. The experiment did violate Reddit's terms of service and the subreddit's rules specifically due to the lack of disclosure. That resulted in major pushback over ethical and legal concerns. Reddit has banned the involved accounts and has announced formal legal action while the university decided not to publish the results as well as plans to
further evaluate and improve its own ethical reviews process. Ooh, that's a tough one. That's a sticky, sticky issue. I mean, going in there and pretending like you're someone else and meanwhile it's driven by a bot and the whole intention and purpose. Yeah, it's not a good look. Yeah.
OnePlus has reversed its steep, very steep price increase for the Watch 3, dropping the U.S. price for the smartwatch from $499.99 back down to $349.99 after only a few weeks. Now, the watch was originally priced MSRP at $329.99 when it was first released in February, but the company raised the price earlier this month, citing, quote, current market conditions, which...
Yeah, I give a golf clap to OnePlus on this. When they increased to $499.99,
Like I could kind of understand it felt a little early and, of course, a little reactive, but I could understand their desire to increase it. But $499.99 for a device that, I mean, I gave it like five out of five stars. It's a fantastic watch. But the price is kind of part of that. And that $500 is like, yeah, I can't give it as glowing of a recommendation at that cost. This brings it down into the territory that I can recommend it again. Totally agree with you there.
Yeah.
OpenAI is introducing a new shopping feature within ChatGPT that allows users to search for, compare, and start, not finish, but start the purchase process of products through the chat interface. The new feature is offered to all users, and yes, that means those not logged in as well. Users will receive product recommendations, if they have an account to tie it to, based on their preferences and aggregated reviews from news and community-driven sites like Reddit, among others.
OpenAI says it is currently exploring affiliate revenue models, but this early version is really focused more on providing user-tailored recommendations, just kind of getting it off the ground and, I guess, seeing where it leads. No, more consumerism. And now it's in our OpenAI chat GPT models. You can't stop it. Oh, man.
LG is giving its remaining phone users one, one final warning that its software update services, over-the-air updates, update center app, and the LG Bridge PC tool will be permanently shut down on June 30th, 2025. Now those devices will continue to operate, but they will not gain new features, security fixes, or the ability to restore deleted default apps.
LG exited the smartphone industry in 2021, but they did offer a three-year update promise for their premium models, which the company has more than delivered upon once the infrastructure shuts down this summer.
Yeah. So, you know, three years and they went definitely more than three years on this. So you got to give them props for that. It's too bad, though, because I'm like, I'm still sad that LG is not in the smartphone industry. I am too. They did some. You remember the wing? The wing was crazy. Yes.
They had some really innovative and interesting devices for sure. So I'm glad that they gave them as many updates as they did. So y'all have to switch soon. All right. Those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little bit deeper.
The price of electric vehicles is coming down worldwide, even with all the tariff uncertainty that's kind of happening right now. Tom caught up with Bodie Grimm from the Kilowatt podcast to highlight two models, one in North America here and one in Europe that aren't necessarily cheap, but you might be interested in them nonetheless.
Bodhi, thanks again for being with us to help us understand the world of EVs. Thank you for having me on, Tom. This is always a lot of fun for me. We've got two models we're going to talk about today. Let's start with the one in North America. So not just US. What do you got for us? Well, we first have the Chevy Equinox LT four-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, excuse me, trim. This is the base of the base model. And I picked it because...
Cheap is maybe not the best way to apply to these because I said to somebody who was building a car once, I was like, what's your cheap version? And he goes, the affordable version. So that's where I like to say this is an affordable... We're not talking about the $10,000 BYDs here, but we're talking about something that is not a $70,000 luxury car. Yeah, that makes sense. Correct. Correct. So the Equinox LT front wheel drive is a five-passenger vehicle.
220 horsepower, 319 miles of range, 150 kilowatts of charging. That means you can get around 70 miles in 10 minutes on a DC fast charger. Some of the highlights. Go ahead. I'm sorry. No, not bad. Yeah, no, no. It's pretty good. Some of the highlights are one pedal driving. It's got a really beautiful 11-inch digital instrument cluster behind the steering wheel. And then a nice big 17.7 infotainment screen.
It also has Chevy's infotainment software with Google built in, which I think is the worst name for infotainment software. So it's built on Android automotive, but it's Chevy custom with Google building back in.
Yeah. I think they renamed Android Automotive to Google Built-In because I went back before I wrote up these notes to kind of compare the two, and that's what it seems like, but I might be wrong. And just to be clear to folks, Android Automotive is a base operating system where Android Auto is an interface, kind of like CarPlay. Right. Also terrible naming conventions. Yeah, yeah. Very confusing. Some of the other highlights are spacious interior and then...
I don't know if the base model comes with this, but most models that Chevy or GM is releasing, it comes with a certain amount of time where you get free supercruise. And then after that, there's an extra cost. It's not very much. It's under $4,000. And that's your autonomous vehicle?
features, not full autonomous driving for buying that. No, no, no. We're talking level two autonomy, autonomous features. Yeah. And you get all the stuff. Right. Right. And all of this starts at $35,000.
With in the north, at least in the US, you get a 7500 US federal tax credit for now. So that drops you below $30,000 for this vehicle. Yeah, that definitely qualifies as affordable these days. I'm still stuck in the past where I'm like, it has to be below 20,000. But unless you're buying used, you're just not going to see that anymore. Unless, you know, like I said, there's the BYDs and all out there. How does this thing review? What are the reviewers saying about it?
So we'll start with the pros. Like I said, it's very roomy. You get bi-directional charging. So if you install some additional equipment, which means you have to buy the additional equipment and pay an electrician to install it, you can run your house off of your car in the event of an emergency or if you just want to offset peak pricing. The range is really good for $35,000. You're getting 319 miles range. That's really good.
And then it comes standard with the advanced driver assist features like front passenger braking or pedestrian braking, excuse me, lane keep assist, forward collision alerts, rear cross traffic alerts. So you don't back into somebody when you're backing out of a parking space and automatic emergency braking. What are the downsides? Downsides? You kind of alluded to this. No Apple CarPlay, no Android Auto. And a lot of reviewers did not like Chevy's first iteration of their infotainment system.
Performance wise, we got 220 horsepower. Reviewers thought it was underwhelming. I don't know how much you're going to care if you're not a reviewer. Zero to 67.7 seconds. That's not great for an EV, but if you don't care about how fast you can accelerate, who cares?
DC fast charging also isn't great. Just to kind of give you an idea, 150 kilowatts is what the Equinox is rocking at this base level and the base level Model Y, which is more expensive, but it can get except up to 250 kilowatts, which gets at about 170 miles in about 15 minutes.
And then just some small things like CCS1 and J1772 connectors instead of NACs. So there are absolutely adapters available, but those two standards are kind of going away. No wireless charging on this model and the seats are manual, which I thought was a little petty. I don't buy manual seats myself. Gotcha. Okay. So that's the Chevy Equinox LT front wheel drive trim. Let's talk about Europe, which
I know is not just Europe. In fact, explain how you got to this model. So I wanted to not be just US-centric. So I wanted to make sure we looked at a vehicle that touched a bunch of different markets. But I can't give you prices for every single market that it's in. And so what I did here was I concentrated on the UK market. But the MG4 SE is available in Europe, parts of Asia, Australia, Mexico, and the Middle East. Gotcha. Okay.
So in terms of specs, this is a five-passenger SUV. It's got a 51-kilowatt-hour battery. It's a rear-wheel drive, 168 horsepower. It has a range of 218 miles or 350 kilometers. And I should say that every region or country, they calculate range differently. So that might change depending on where you are. It's capable of charging up to 117 kilowatts in range.
I don't know. It's like zero to 80% in 40 minutes. So that's not necessarily great. It's got a 10.25 infotainment screen. It's got a smaller instrument cluster behind the steering wheel, not quite as pretty as the Equinox, but the interior is spacious. This does have Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. And then it's got the adaptive cruise control, traffic jam assist, that kind of thing that comes standard with the car.
So it sounds like the car will do a little bit less than we were talking about with the Equinox, but it's got Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and otherwise fairly parity, maybe a little slower charging. How much does this one run?
You are looking right at 26,000 pounds. Oh, okay. So really affordable for the UK. And this is why I picked it. This might be the most affordable car in EV, excuse me, in the UK right now. And it's got comparable features to the Renault Zoe and the Peugeot E208, which start around 300 or excuse me, $30,000. The thing is, is the MG4 tops out at 31,000 pounds. So...
It tops out at what the others start at. Yeah, yeah. So if you max it out, you're still not going to be paying too much more at all than what you would get with the comparisons. What are the reviewers saying on this one? It's very minimalist. It does – which could be a pro or a con. In terms of pros, we're looking at a comfortable ride. There's a decent amount of storage in this vehicle. It does vehicle-to-load. So instead of doing vehicle-to-home like the Chevy Equinox, you can –
People always are out like in the in the pictures, promotional pictures, this shows people like out camping and they're powering a blender to make margaritas or whatever. So, yeah, vehicle to load just means you can power something that's outside of your car. OK, it's roomy. It's affordable. The build quality is decent. Now, one of the cons is it's made out of cheaper materials. That's not the confused build quality versus the materials they chose to use.
It's got a Euro NCAP five-star safety rating, and it's got a seven-year, 80,000-mile warranty. And then the downsides? The touchscreen is not very responsive. I have to oftentimes touch it multiple times. Like I said, cheaper materials. Performance, not great. Again, 168 horsepower, 0-60 in 7.7 seconds, not great.
DC fast charging is slow, no wireless charging on the base model. It's a little bit noisy when you're on the motorway, and it has reliability issues. Okay, wait a minute. So I know the price is right, but if it's got reliability issues, why would you recommend this car?
Because people from all over the markets that I just mentioned at the top of this vehicle, they love this car. Like, it has reliability issues. Absolutely. They still love the car. People will email me and tell me how much they love their car in paragraphs, not in sentences, in paragraphs.
So that's good. That's the MG4SE EV. Like we said, 26,000 pounds, topping out 31,000 pounds. And then the one we mentioned for North America was the Chevy Equinox LT front wheel drive trim. That one's $35,000 before any tax credit you might get.
Bodhi, thanks so much for bringing these to us. If folks want more of this kind of thing, they can get it. Where should they go? They should go to 918digital.com and you'll see all of the episodes for Kilowatt that we've got up there. And we've also got episodes for Shuffle Playlist, which is a music podcast to do with my friend Chris, and Beyond the Post, which is a podcast to do with Rob Dunwood. Fantastic. Thanks, man. Thank you for having me.
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All right, James writes, Hi, yesterday you were talking about juice jacking and using charge only cables. I have been using a charge only adapter instead for a while. It's a simple USB-A male to USB-A female connector that only allows charge to pass through. This way I can use any cable and charge safely so long as I have my adapter, which is way longer lived
than any cable. I did a quick check and I also found USB-C versions. By the way, these are also called USB condoms. And James is very correct. They are actually called USB condoms. I guess they're descriptive. I have a cable somewhere around here that actually has a switch on it.
It's like a USB-C cable, and it's just a little analog switch, but in one direction, it passes data and power, and the other, it just passes power. Oh, wow. That's really cool. I have some USB condoms, but they're mainly for testing wattage and voltage to see if cables and what...
what cables are advertised as being allowed to give you in terms of wattage and voltage are actually doing. So it's a really good testing tool. But it's nice to see that these are available now for USB-C versions as well. Indeed.
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