GOP senator seeks stiffer tariff to stop China 'flooding U.S. auto markets'
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said he is also proposing legislation to extend tariffs to vehicles produced by Chinese automakers in Mexico.
March orders: What’s new to do in theme parks, attractions
Let’s not go so far as to call it March Madness, but there’s certainly momentum this month as Orlando’s theme parks and attractions move toward spring break, Easter and the traditionally busy summer vacation season.
Here is a sampling of the opportunities out there between now and when things get April foolish.
New crew
It’s not exactly like spotting the first robin, but new attractions are a signal of spring in these parts.
Legoland Florida is introducing its Ferrari Build & Race experience on Friday. It will feature the ability to create Lego cars, have them scanned and then (digitally) race them. This exercise is fronted by a full-scale Ferrari 296 GTS made of Lego bricks. (Bonus: Visitors can sit inside it.)
Aquatica, SeaWorld’s water park, is introducing a slide named Tassie’s Underwater Twist. It is themed to be a journey through Australia’s Shark Bay seagrass meadow, a synchronized video display and an orchestral score. An official opening date is slated to be announced next week.
OpenAI says Musk agreed the ChatGPT maker should become a for-profit company
By KELVIN CHAN (AP Business Writer)
Elon Musk supported making OpenAI a for-profit company, the ChatGPT maker said, attacking a lawsuit from the wealthy investor who has accused the artificial intelligence business of betraying its founding goal to benefit humanity as it pursued profits instead.
In its first response since the Tesla CEO sued last week, OpenAI vowed to get the claim thrown out and released emails from Musk, escalating the feud between the San Francisco-based company and the billionaire that bankrolled its creation years ago.
“The mission of OpenAI is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, which means both building safe and beneficial AGI and helping create broadly distributed benefits,” OpenAI said in a blog post late Tuesday from five company executives and computer scientists, including CEO Sam Altman. “We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims.”
AGI refers to artificial general intelligence, which are general purpose AI systems that can perform just as well as — or even better than — humans in a wide variety of tasks.
Orlando moves to control 6,300 acres of Sunbridge development
Orlando is preparing to annex nearly 6,300 acres of the long-planned – and enormous – Sunbridge development being built by Tavistock on both sides of the Orange/Osceola County line.
The proposed annexation of land currently in unincorporated Orange County would give the city control of a hugely lucrative project that will have enormous environmental impacts. But Orlando’s move caught Orange County leaders who would lose their jurisdiction by surprise, vexing some, though under state law there is little they can do to stop it.
“We got this sprung on us,” said Orange County Commissioner Nicole Wilson, an advocate for environmental protection and rural areas. “It’s really troublesome. This is a gigantic development in a very ecologically sensitive area.”
Sunbridge is planned as a mixed-use development with up to 7,370 residential units, 5.4 million square feet of office space, 2.9 million square feet of industrial uses and 880,000 square feet of retail, according to documents provided to the county Feb. 23 by Brooke R. Bonnett, Orlando’s economic development director.
The 5 most exciting innovations coming to an airport near you
Imagine it’s the year 2030 and you’re heading to the airport to catch a flight. At the curb, you hop onto a Segway-like scooter that will serve as your personal airport vehicle. It scans data from your phone to determine your gate number and glides in and out of massive elevator banks — no escalators — to move between check-in and security floors. Along the way, a machine scans your face to verify your identity and directs you to an individual security tunnel where you self-screen your luggage.
None of this is science fiction. Within six years, architecture firm Gensler says it will install such a prototype at a major North American airport, including all of the above features.
“Airports are starting to shift toward autonomy,” says Ty Osbaugh, who is heading up the project as Gensler’s global cities sector leader. Airport innovation is happening faster than we think, he says, foreseeing a focus on self-service in keeping with an already dominant lifestyle that prefers digitization to real-life interactions.