Rolls-Royce is preparing to ramp up production in the US as it seeks to counter damage wrought by Donald Trump’s escalating trade war.
The UK engineering giant is drawing up emergency contingency plans to lessen the impact of tariffs, which is likely to involve hiring more US workers and expanding its North American operations.
Bosses are racing to complete a review after the US president slapped levies on Canada, China and Mexico, while also issuing threats against the UK and Europe.
To avoid the most damaging effects of the trade war, Rolls is exploring how much production can be transferred from the targeted countries to the US, where it employs 6,000 workers across 11 sites. . . .
According to Grok (not always correct but better than other AIs)
Rolls Royce joins
Essity
Honda
Campari
Volkswagen
Volvo
LVMH
Quanta Computer
& others companies who, because of the possibility of tariffs, are considering a shift in production out of Mexico etc. to the US.
drawing up emergency contingency plans to lessen the impact of tariffs, which is likely to involve
I use grok for work. I think it’s better than ChatGPT for a lot of things.
Good:
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Like every AI it relies on whatever is posted on the websites its allowed to mine. So whatever the MSM reports is likely to be reported by Grok. (Okay this is both good and bad.)
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Unlike GoogleAi etc. it does not provide black pictures of George Washington, female pictures of Abraham Lincoln etc…
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Unlike ChatGPT etc. if it can answer a question about Muslims it can answer the same question about Christians, ditto with blacks and whites, men and women etc. and MORE IMPORTANTLY it does not lie about why it can and cannot answer questions. (Imagine that? Programming an AI not to lie.)
BAD:
- It provides long, long responses often diverging off into tangents.
- It sucks at providing sources, links etc.
- Sometimes when it provides links etc. those links are “hypothetical” links. You need to do a Google search to see the original
- It does not have a lot of choice of user-interface appearance etc. If you need reading glasses it can be a real pain in the ass.
- Once in a while (5%?) it makes basic arithmetic errors.
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As a lawyer i love this part of it lol
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I’m gonna search my memory banks.
About a week ago I got into Twitter debate with some snarky liberal.
The underlying topic does not matter today but the point is we each found that by asking Grok a question differently we each could get it to agree with us.
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I’ve been using it for keeping track of my nutritional needs, and the occasional reminder of some math formulas.
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Has Rolls even won any US military contracts lately? The F136 engine flopped (it was a competitor for the F-35 and B-21’s engine, which is the F135) and I can’t think of anything else they’ve been up to US wise. They did win the contract to build the nuclear reactors for the UK’s new Dreadnought class submarines so that’s a win for them.
The article reads in part:
To avoid the most damaging effects of the trade war, Rolls is exploring how much production can be transferred from the targeted countries to the US . . .
Whatever it currently makes in China or Mexico for import to the US, it is now considering making that in the US, (and considering it in a very public way.)
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Considering it in a very public way could be that considering it in public way on purpose and as far as it will go. There seems to be a lot of hedging in these articles about anything happening
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How often do companies that have not decided something tell the media “HEY YOU!!! We are considering this!!”
My guess is not very often.
You are joking right?
Just as an example - concept vehicles
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It was a rhetorical question.
Obviously they don’t do it much, and when they do it is for a reason.
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Press releases are more likely to not pan out than to do so. Especially political ones.
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By the time they shift the factories here President Trump won’t be president anymore. The whole thing smells political
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Yeah plenty of company considering
Remember that company that told trump during his first term they were going to build a chip plant here? And then they never did…
I forget the name.
How many companies made changes to production based on Trump’s NAFTA part 2, only to be burned and tariffed anyway?
Why would they risk that again?
