🚕 Q: What’s the expected price range for Tesla’s upcoming Robo Taxi? A: Tesla’s Robo Taxi will enter a new price tier under $30,000, significantly increasing sales and profitability due to its lower hardware cost structure.
Tesla’s Expansion in China.
🇨🇳 Q: How is Tesla expanding its Full Self-Driving (FSD) in China? A: Tesla is offering a 30-day free trial of FSD in China, with new software version 13.2.8 for both Hardware 3 and 4, likely rolling out between end of April and early May.
🤝 Q: Why is Tesla’s relationship with China important? A: Tesla’s good relationship with China, established 5 years ago without a joint venture, is crucial for success as China benefits from learning Tesla’s FSD perspective and benchmarking against their own vehicles.
💰 Q: How will tariffs affect low-priced vehicles in the US? A: 25% tariffs on imported vehicles will apply to nearly 80% of vehicles priced under $30,000, impacting popular models like Civic and Corolla.
Here’s Dennis Wilson of DBC Technologies sharing the many different use cases for AI voice agents.
He also shares how AI can retain the expertise and tribal knowledge that lives in your most capable people.
If your organization needs AI Agents for sales, service, orders, surveys or product information contact me.
I look forward helping you get started!
In this episode of the (A)bsolutely (I)ncredible podcast, Bruce Burke sits down with Dennis Wilson, Founder and CEO of DBC Technologies. Dennis is a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and attended the University of British Columbia. DBC provides AI Voice Agents for small to medium enterprise businesses. Dennis is deeply involved in Jim Roddy’s Retail Solution Providers Association (RSPA), and is a featured speaker at their events. Dennis teaches and demonstrates the benefits of AI to these providers of solutions for retailers. Dennis is a passionate marketer, who has developed a platform that utilizes the best the AI industry offers. DBC stands for Doing Business Creatively, which defines Dennis’ approach with his customers. With over 25 + years of software, marketing, CRM, and sales automation experience, they have been integrating Artificial Intelligence capabilities into their internal software stack, and into their client’s businesses since the launch of ChatGPT. Experience DBC’s Inbound AI Voice Agents For Yourself Dial any of the numbers below to interact with DBC’s AI Agents. Ask questions, and dig deep to understand the complexities of these Agentic AI personalities from DBC. * Inbound AI Voice Agent | Claire Fox: 1−888−887−9862 * Outbound AI Voice Agent | Susan Brown: 1−888−988−1783 * Cannabis Dispensary Agent | May Bud: 1−888−628−7858 DBC helps enterprise companies equipment manufacturers, payments providers, cannabis dispensaries, POS equipment manufacturers, and software companies, break free of legacy automated attendant technologies that frustrate customers, decrease customer satisfaction, and waste money. Their services can relieve cost of staffing for tier one, and tier two technical support teams, and the associated employee churn. Dennis and company can automate your customer service center with AI voice agents, and turn it into a profit center with AI’s advanced abilities to resolve problems and then suggestively upsell new products and services, monetizing customer service calls. DBC Technologies helps retailers enhance their marketing with automated marketing solutions using an AI+Human approach. At any time, customers can be connected with a live person to help resolve issues that may need a human touch. Dennis also created an AI-powered Social Media, E-mail, and Text, marketing engine that can work along with your AI Agents to further amplify and promote your brand. Dennis and company enable independent restaurants to compete with the big money chains by implementing AI marketing and automation solutions to grow both dine-in and take out sales — without losing 30% of the order to 3rd party delivery apps. DBC is a leader in Enterprise level AI Voice Agent and ChatBot technology with both being capable of taking orders in the restaurant and cannabis industries. Your inbound calls are answered by AI Agents trained for taking customer orders at an improved level of efficiency compared with similarly human-staffed positions. DBC Technologies Specialties: * AI Automated Voice Agents * AI RAG Bots (Advanced Website Chatbots) * AI Written with Human Edited Marketing * Retail Sales Growth Consulting Services * Bespoke Software Development Services For more information about DBC Technologies Agentic AI and how to get started contact Bruce Burke directly, directly using the links provided. Thank you!
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology is rapidly advancing, impressing users and analysts alike, while navigating challenges in the auto industry and broader economic factors.
Questions to inspire discussion.
Tesla’s FSD Progress.
🚗 Q: How many unsupervised miles has Tesla’s FSD driven? A: Tesla’s FSD has driven over 50,000 unsupervised miles, demonstrating significant progress in autonomous driving capabilities.
🌐 Q: What indicates Tesla’s transition to software-defined earnings? A: FSD unsupervised miles and operating domain growth are key leading indicators of Tesla’s shift towards software-defined earnings.
🤖 Q: How does Tesla’s FSD showcase AI potential in driving? A: Tesla’s FSD unsupervised capabilities, demonstrated in complex driving scenarios, serve as a proof case for artificial intelligence’s potential in autonomous driving.
Tesla is navigating challenges in the EV market, including supply chain issues and production adjustments, while maintaining optimism about advancements in self-driving technology and preparing for future earnings ## Questions to inspire discussion ## Tesla’s FSD Progress.
🚗 Q: How has Tesla’s FSD version 13 performed in recent tests? A: FSD v13 on hardware 4 showed incredible performance with no unplanned disengagements over 490 miles of winding mountain and coastal roads, including navigating flagger-regulated oncoming traffic.
🌎 Q: What are the expectations for Tesla’s FSD version 14? A: FSD v14 is expected to be overfit for Austin and potentially deployed unsupervised globally in a short timeframe, subject to regulatory approval. Tesla’s Manufacturing and Supply Chain.
🔋 Q: How is Tesla addressing rare earth element concerns in motor production? A: Tesla’s rare earth free motors use 25% less rare earth elements than industry average, positioning them well against China’s export controls on 7 rare earth elements, including neodymium.
📊 Q: What insights might Tesla’s upcoming earnings call provide? A: The April 22nd earnings call will likely address supply chain and margin impacts from China’s rare earth export controls, battery supply constraints, and tariff effects. Tesla’s Product Updates.
📷 Q: What undocumented changes are included in Tesla’s AI4 vehicles spring release? A: The release includes a wider angle rear view, side repeater cameras at the top, and B-pillar dash cam and Sentry mode video recording capabilities.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is on the verge of launching a self-driving platform that could revolutionize transportation with millions of affordable robotaxis, positioning the company to outpace competitors like Uber ## ## Questions to inspire discussion ## Tesla’s Autonomous Driving Revolution.
🚗 Q: How is Tesla’s unsupervised FSD already at scale? A: Tesla’s unsupervised FSD is currently deployed in 7 million vehicles, with millions of units of hardware 4 dormant in older vehicles, available at a price point of $30,000 or less.
🏭 Q: What makes Tesla’s autonomous driving solution unique? A: Tesla’s solution is vertically integrated with end-to-end ownership of the entire system, including silicon design, software platform, and OEM, allowing them to keep costs low and push down utilization on ride-sharing networks. Impact on Ride-Sharing Industry.
💼 Q: How will Tesla’s autonomous vehicles affect Uber drivers? A: Tesla’s unsupervised self-driving cars will likely replace Uber’s 1.2 million US drivers, being 4x more useful due to no breaks and no human presence, operating at a per-mile cost below 50% of current Uber rates.
💰 Q: What economic pressure will Tesla’s solution put on Uber? A: Tesla’s autonomous driving solution will create tremendous pressure on Uber, with its cost structure acting as a magnet for high utilization, maintaining low pre-pressure costs for Tesla due to their fundamentally different design. Future Implications.
🤝 Q: What potential strategy might Uber adopt to compete with Tesla? A: Uber may need to approach Tesla to pre-buy their first 2 million Cyber Caps upfront, including production costs, as potentially the only path to compete with Tesla’s autonomous driving solution.
Many of these are commercial: What shampoo to pick? How much to spend on a bottle of wine? Whether to renew a subscription?
These choices might appear to be freely made, but psychologists have shown that subtle changes in the way products are positioned, promoted and marketed can radically alter how customers behave.
The Illusion of Choice identifies the 16½ most important psychological biases that everyone in business needs to be aware of today – and shows how any business can take advantage of these quirks to win customers, retain customers and sell more.
What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this talk and live demo, roboticist and founder of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robot designed to help you out around the house. Watch as NEO shows off its ability to vacuum, water plants and keep you company, while Børnich tells the story of its development — and shares a vision for robot helpers that could free up your time to focus on what truly matters. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 8, 2025)
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More than two years after the blockbuster launch of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence continues to be the white hot center of venture capital and the business world at large.
TAMPA, Fla. — British in-orbit manufacturing venture Space Forge has appointed technology veteran Atul Kumar to set up a semiconductor business in the United States, aiming to bolster domestic chip production as efforts to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers gather pace.
Kumar, a materials scientist with more than two decades of experience in the sector, is tasked with developing manufacturing operations under Space Forge’s U.S. subsidiary to support the terrestrial and in-space growth of semiconductor substrates, the company announced April 10.
The move comes as the U.S. ramps up efforts to reduce its dependence on chips from abroad, driven by supply chain disruptions, national security concerns and mounting trade tensions — particularly with China.
