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Chevy Bolt EV delivers nearly 300 miles real-world range for K

Chevy Bolt EV delivers nearly 300 miles real-world range for $30K

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The new 2027 Chevy Bolt EV drove nearly 300 miles on a single charge during real-world testing, or about 30 miles more than its official EPA-rated range. For under $30,000, the new Bolt hits the sweet spot. 2027 Chevy Bolt tops EPA range in real-world testing After phasing out the original Chevy Bolt in 2023, GM’s CEO Mary Barra promised the new version would deliver “an even better driving, charging, and ownership experience.” The original Bolt was GM’s best-selling EV for several years as one of the most affordable electric vehicles in the US, alongside the Nissan LEAF, which was also updated for the 2027 model year. It even won Electrek’s vehicle of the year in 2022. For the 2027 model year, the Chevy Bolt EV is back and better than ever (see our review of it here). The new Bolt now offers a longer driving range, faster charging, modern tech, and an NACS port. Advertisement – scroll for more content Powered by a new 65 kWh LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery, the 2027 Chevy …

Labour MP made £30k from housing scheme denounced by his own party

Labour MP made £30k from housing scheme denounced by his own party

Published by Sam Flores

A Labour MP made more than £30,000 from a taxpayer-funded housing scheme criticised by his party as a “lucrative money-spinning opportunity”. Gurinder Singh Josan, who is the MP for Smethwick, co-owns a five-bedroom house used to accommodate vulnerable people, including drug addicts, asylum seekers and the homeless. For six years, Birmingham city council paid £473,475 to organisations running the property, which housed more than 60 people. Mr Josan and his family received more than £30,000, with the rest going to companies managing the property, The Telegraph understands. The payments were made through the “exempt accommodation” system, which allows landlords to charge the taxpayer higher rents that are not subject to standard housing benefit caps. Gurinder Singh Josan MP with Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner during the 2024 local elections in Dudley – Eddie Keogh/Getty The sector has faced sustained criticism for enabling landlords to profit from housing vulnerable people, often in poor-quality accommodation. In 2022, Shabana Mahmood, now the Home Secretary, criticised it as a “lucrative money-spinning opportunity” for landlords. After being approached by …

Ai2 releases MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent with 30K human task trajectories and a full training stack

Ai2 releases MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent with 30K human task trajectories and a full training stack

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Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them. Ai2 is now offering a third option. The Seattle-based nonprofit behind the open-source OLMo language models and Molmo vision-language family today is releasing MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4 billion and 8 billion parameter sizes. Until now, no open-weight visual web agent shipped with the training data and pipeline needed to audit or reproduce it. MolmoWeb does. MolmoWebMix, the accompanying dataset, includes 30,000 human task trajectories across more than 1,100 websites, 590,000 individual subtask demonstrations and 2.2 million screenshot question-answer pairs — which Ai2 describes as the largest publicly released collection of human web-task execution ever assembled. “Can you go from just passively understanding images, describing them and captioning them, to actually making them take action in some environment?” Tanmay Gupta, senior research scientist at Ai2, told VentureBeat. “That is exactly what MolmoWeb is.” How it works: It sees what you see MolmoWeb operates entirely from browser screenshots. It …

Council ‘can’t afford’ elections… but spends £30k on migrants’ mental health

Council ‘can’t afford’ elections… but spends £30k on migrants’ mental health

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A Labour council that cancelled its local election to cut costs spent tens of thousands of pounds on an “asylum seeker mental health and trauma project”. Blackburn with Darwen borough council is one of 29 local authorities granted government permission to halt its local election this year. The cancellations have resulted in Sir Keir Starmer being accused of “running scared” of the electorate at a time when polls show a collapse in support for Labour. Defending Blackburn’s decision to ask the Government for a postponement, Phil Riley, the council’s Labour leader, previously said the council would “rather the money went on delivering services people want than on an election which would have to be repeated just a year later and on different ward boundaries”. “It costs around £200,000 to hold an election,” he added. However, the same local authority spent £30,000 on commissioning a project that focused on the mental health of asylum seekers, The Telegraph can reveal. A contract awarded in January 2024, when Mr Riley and his party were in control, granted the …