00:00Good evening, good afternoon, and good morning, depending on where you are in the world.
00:04We'd like to present to you two articles of interest.
00:08Before I do that, I would like to let you know that this is for review.
00:13Informational and educational purposes is not to take the credit for the intellectual property of the article.
00:19The full credit to the intellectual property of the article goes to the publisher, which in this case is Car Scoops,
00:24a story by Stephen Rivers.
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00:37And let's continue.
00:39The headline reads,
00:41Subaru pulls Canadian production from U.S. as Trumps to terror steal a heavy blow.
00:49And how do you have such a vehicle?
00:54This is the Subaru Forester.
00:57And you have the Canadian flag in the background.
01:00Caption reads, Subaru pulls Canadian production from U.S. as Trump tariffs steal a heavy blow.
01:07Well, you know there's one solution to that, which is basically what you can do is you can just move your production to the U.S.
01:13And then you won't have to pay any tariffs, right?
01:15Because it's already there, right?
01:18Anyway, just my opinion.
01:19You can come to your own conclusion about what you think is the solution.
01:23Here are some main points I would mention for the article here.
01:26Subaru is shuffling Canadian market production to Japan to avoid costly American tariffs.
01:33The move comes as Subaru works to minimize pressure caused by new international tariffs.
01:39Many automakers are scrambling to find ways to manage the escalating global tariff war.
01:44Tradeors have had a funny way of boomeraming back onto the people who start them.
01:48And the latest tariff saga between the U.S. and Canada is already rewriting the automotive math.
01:54The impact is the most important thing is that it's going to be on serious logistical acrobatics just to keep costs under control.
02:01So, it's a complex issue because the fact is U.S. wants to do what's in their best interest.
02:09Canada wants to do what's in their best interest.
02:11And, of course, Japan, the Japanese company Subaru also wants to do what's in their best interest.
02:20But let's continue on.
02:21In 2024, Subaru sold 68,043 cars in Canada with 26% of them or 17,700 vehicles coming from the U.S.A.
02:35Thanks to Donald Trump's new round of tariff games, Canada now imposes a 25% tax on cars built south of the border.
02:44In response, Subaru is shifting production for Canadian-born models out of the U.S. to save itself some cash.
02:55It'll just end up costing America millions.
03:01By the time the 2026 model year begins for Subaru, it'll produce just 10% of its Canadian-bound cars
03:10or Canada-bound cars in the U.S.
03:14Quote, with that, we can minimize the impact of a counter-surtax.
03:19Sorry, excuse me.
03:21Says Tomohiro Kubota is a Subaru's, Subaru Canada CEO who spoke to Auto News Canada.
03:28For now, production of the Outback for the Canadian market will continue in Lafayette, Indiana.
03:40I believe that's INV is an abbreviation for Indiana.
03:44But that will shift to Japan in the near future.
03:47And ahead of you is a picture of this car with some other people lined up and the speaker here.
03:54Notice it says, welcome to Subaru Ascend.
03:59Let's continue reading.
04:01A caption reads, Subaru pulls Canadian production from U.S.A.
04:05as Trump's terrorists deal a heavy blow.
04:08When that happens, the plant in Indiana will retool to begin building a forester.
04:14Subaru is second most popular in Canada after the Outback, which remains unclear to whether
04:20these Indiana-built foresters will be exported to Canada or if Subaru will instead lead on
04:26existing Japanese factories, which have already produced a forester for other global markets.
04:34And a related video we have here.
04:36And I'll pause it.
04:39I wanted to play a commercial.
04:41Related video, terrorists will most likely increase the cost of cars as per WXIA-TV Atlanta.
04:47That's the call letters.
04:50And now, let's skip that now.
04:54That's just a commercial.
04:55Well, I can just show you the beginning of what it looks like and then I'll...
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05:49So let's continue on.
05:51Notably, Subaru is one of the few legacy automakers that doesn't have any production facilities in Canada.
05:58Up until now, he has rallied on the US MCA agreement, which Donald Trump negotiated for the first time he was in office.
06:06With that agreement now effectively undermined by new tariffs, Subaru is changing its playbook.
06:11Subaru isn't alone in trying to come up with a creative way to sidestep tariffs.
06:16Canada, as a whole, is considering opening up its regulation to allow more automakers to import cars from nations outside the USA.
06:25Volvo laid off hundreds of workers in the US and other automakers are freezing imports to the nation.
06:32Where the whole situation ends up is for debate.
06:34What's not in question is that, in the end, the industry is going to look very different and not necessarily better.
06:45Excuse me.
06:45That, of course, is according to the author.
06:49And ahead of you is a picture of these cars here.
06:52And the caption reads,
06:54Subaru pulls Canadian production from USA as Trump tariffs deal a heavy blow.
07:01So what do you think of that article?
07:03Do you agree with their conclusion?
07:05Well, let's go to our second article.
07:07And as usual, I would like to let you know that this is for review, informational and educational purposes.
07:15It is not to take the credit for the for the intellectual property of the article.
07:20Excuse me.
07:22My purpose here is only to give is only for information for review, information, educational purposes to give.
07:31I'm giving full credit to the publisher, which in this case is the Register, and the story by Brandon Vigilario.
07:39Did I pronounce his name right?
07:40Maybe I didn't.
07:41But anyway, the headline reads,
07:44Duolingo jumps aboard its AI first train and will phase out contractors.
07:51And the picture in front of you is a picture of this train and the train tracks and around it as well.
07:58Very colorful.
07:59The caption reads,
08:02Duolingo jumps aboard the AI first train, will phase out contractors.
08:08Louis Von Onn says,
08:10small quantity hits a price worth paying to ride the wave.
08:15Duolingo has become the latest tech outfit to attempt to declare itself AI first,
08:19with CEO Louis Von Onn telling staff,
08:23if the biz hopes to gradually phase out contractors for work,
08:28neural networks can take over.
08:31In the letter,
08:32which Duolingo shared on LinkedIn,
08:33Von Onn told employees that language learning outfit would gradually stop contractors to do work AI can handle.
08:40Warning that it's, quote,
08:43small hits on quality were an acceptable price to pay for moving quickly in the AI's arms race.
08:50The first time Pittsburgh-based biz has begun cutting contracts in favor of AI has started shedding content creation roles last year.
09:00A move on on reference in his latest letter.
09:04I should tell you guys that this is a growing trend because what happens is it's a lot cheaper to pay for the software and pay for any sort of related overhead.
09:15When it comes to, like, let's say, buying a computer, the software, and any server storage, and also, and then whatever is for utilities.
09:27That's a lot less than if you hire somebody.
09:30And besides, this can work 24 hours a day.
09:32So that's the other thing.
09:34So let's continue on.
09:36The CEO didn't explain in the letter which teams or projects would be affected by this latest round of replacing contractors with AI,
09:45and Duolingo didn't respond to questions for this story.
09:49In addition to the contractor cuts,
09:51Duolingo said it was going to be,
09:53that it was going to begin evaluating AI use for hiring and employee performance reviews.
10:00The letter also explained that the new rules
10:03would be approved if a team can prove that the work couldn't be automated.
10:10And a nod to a similar policy announced by Shopify's CEO in the initiatives would be forthcoming to,
10:17quote, fundamentally change, unquote,
10:19how, quote, most functions, unquote,
10:22at the company work.
10:24As Duolingo echoed last year was reported to its contract reduction in favor of AI,
10:29the outfit maintains it's doing for the benefit,
10:34it's doing,
10:36maintain that it's doing so for the benefit of the employees.
10:40In a related video entitled,
10:42former Google CEO predicts AI will replace most programmers in a year,
10:48as per Straight Arrow News,
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11:46This isn't about replacing duels with AI,
11:49Von said.
11:50It's about removing bottlenecks so it can do more.
11:53We want you to focus on creative work and real problems,
11:55not repetitive tasks, unquote.
11:58Litter also states the language learning firm is embracing AI the same way
12:01and embrace the mobile first approach more than a decade ago,
12:05a move that Von Ahn has pivotal to the language learning output success.
12:09Quote,
12:10betting on the mobile made all the difference.
12:13Von Ahn explained in a letter,
12:14quote,
12:15we're making a similar call now,
12:17and the time of platform shift is AI, unquote.
12:22The Duolingo chief further explained he didn't consider AI to be,
12:26quote,
12:27just a productivity boost, unquote,
12:28but to be a whole new way of doing business that means the company will need
12:33to think,
12:34that is to rethink much of how its systems are structured,
12:39not just to integrate AI into existing processes.
12:43Quote,
12:43in many cases we'll need to start from scratch,
12:45unquote,
12:45Von Ahn explained,
12:47you know that some elements of the transformation will take time,
12:50but stress that Duolingo wasn't going to wait for AI to be perfect
12:53before jumping in.
12:54That's a good point because mistake people make as they try to be perfect,
12:59but you're not going to be perfect.
13:00So it's a pointless endeavor.
13:03And besides what you're trying to do is just get it out there because you have
13:08the service that people want.
13:10You just need to put it out there and people will work with what you have,
13:13not,
13:14well,
13:15it needs to be perfect.
13:15No,
13:16it doesn't need to be perfect and it's not going to be perfect.
13:18So don't worry about being perfect.
13:20Just worry about getting it out there.
13:22But anyway,
13:23let's get back to the article.
13:26Quote,
13:26we'd rather move with urgency and take occasional small hits on quality than move
13:30slowly and miss the moment,
13:31unquote.
13:32Von Ahn noted.
13:34Whether AI will have the massive success that Duolingo expects it to bring the
13:38company is questionable.
13:40A recent paper found that AI has minimal impact on jobs or wages,
13:44suggesting that the massive AI investments aren't having the economic impact
13:48that companies have expected.
13:52One find that is one finding from their research was that the actual time
13:56savings from AI tools are far smaller than expected with users reporting only a
14:012.8% reduction in work hours,
14:04raising the question of whether Duolingo is ultimately wasting its employees time
14:08by pressuring them to adopt a tool with real world evidence of its promised
14:14benefits.
14:15That will do it for our second article.
14:19Before I conclude the review,
14:21I would like to ask your opinion about the two articles.
14:24The first one namely is,
14:26Subaru pulls Canadian production from U.S.
14:28as Trump's tariffs,
14:31tariffs,
14:32that is,
14:32deal at heavy low.
14:34And for the second one,
14:36Duolingo jumps aboard its AI first train and will phase out contracts.
14:41What do you think of these two articles?
14:43Are they interesting?
14:44Are they relevant to your life?
14:46Do they provide enough information to have a basic or sufficient understanding
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