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Polaris Dawn mission set to launch early Friday morning after delays
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Polaris Dawn mission is scheduled to launch on Friday after weather delayed last week's initial attempt. All SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets were subsequently grounded following a booster fire during a landing.
Polaris Dawn is a private mission that includes civilian spacewalks. The launch window opens at 3:33 a.m. on Friday.
Officials say the crew will spend up to five days in orbit, working towards the following objectives: high altitude, a visit to a commercial spacewalk, in-space communications, and health impact research.
Is that a Spacex or are they still grounded.
Not grounded any more. FAA lifted the ban on the Falcon 9 within 2 days.
Ah ok. Glad you follow this stuff.
Are you a space cadet?
Some days more than others. lol
Inside the Trump Crypto Project Linked to a $2M DeFi Hack and Former Pick-Up Artist
Four team members listed in World Liberty Financial's white paper previously worked on Dough Finance, which was drained of $2 million in July. One also founded Date Hotter Girls LLC.
#crypto #technology #trump
PharmEasy still 92% below its peak $5.6 billion valuation, investor estimates
Indian online pharmacy startup PharmEasy, once valued at $5.6 billion, is still about 92% below its peak valuation, according to new estimates by its India's PharmEasy, once valued at $5.6 billion, is about 92% below its peak valuation, according to Janus Henderson.
Indian online pharmacy startup PharmEasy, once valued at $5.6 billion, is still about 92% below its peak valuation, according to new estimates by its investor Janus Henderson.
According to the British-American global asset firm, which disclosed how it values its shares in the Indian startup in a securities filing, PharmEasy’s implied valuation at the end of June was about $458 million.
#parmeasy #india #pharmacy #technology
This comes as a surprise as PharmEasy in April said it had launched a rights issue to raise about $417 million. The rights issue, which allows existing investors to buy new shares in the firm at a much lower valuation, was oversubscribed, PharmEasy co-founder Dharmil Sheth said in a LinkedIn post.
A regulatory filing showed at the time that the startup had secured about $216 million. Some investors had started to cut the worth of their holdings in PharmEasy last year itself. The new valuation estimation suggests that PharmEasy is now worth less than the sum it paid to acquire diagnostic lab chain Thyrocare in 2021.
Why Lyft's CEO says 'it would be insane' not to go all in on bikeshare
In the summer of 2023, Lyft was contemplating the sale of its micromobility business after receiving strong interest from prospective buyers.
In the summer of 2023, Lyft was contemplating the sale of its micromobility business after receiving strong interest from prospective buyers. Today, the ride-hail company is doubling down on its docked scooter and bikeshare operations, positioning itself as the ideal partner for cities looking to enhance their urban transportation networks.
#technology #lyft #bikeshare
Since acquiring shared bike and station provider PBSC Urban Solutions two years ago, Lyft has invested in building and deploying better quality e-bikes and docked e-scooters, as well as a new type of docking station that is solar-powered, modular and able to charge both bikes and scooters.
As CEO David Risher reviewed Lyft’s micromobility assets, he asked himself: “Do we sell the whole thing, or do we operate it?”
“E-bikes in particular are growing so fast globally. It would be insane not to take it on ourselves,” Risher told TechCrunch, noting Lyft’s e-bike rides increased 65% year-over-year through August to make up half of total rides. “So we said, let’s do this ourselves and bring it to the real standard of excellence that we have for our whole business.”
For Lyft, that means streamlining and integrating the two sides of its micromobility business – PBSC, which sells bikeshare-as-a-service to local operators and cities in 49 markets globally, and the eight Lyft-owned and operated bike and scooter share programs, like Citi Bike in New York City and Divvy in Chicago. The combined division will be renamed Lyft Urban Solutions, and Michael Brous, Lyft’s former head of operations, will head it up.
Risher noted the renewed focus on micromobility will also include a restructuring of its team and finances. A spokesperson for Lyft told TechCrunch less than 1% of staff on the tech side will be cut as the company shifts resources from R&D to sales, operations and deployment.
“We estimate that the ongoing benefit to the business of this restructuring is going to be on the order of $20 million a year, and it will be a net contributor to the business,” Risher said.
SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission set to launch early Friday
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, a multiday orbital expedition set to feature the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens, is now scheduled to launch on Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
#technology #space #spacex
Qualcomm ramps up challenge to Intel and AMD with latest AI PC chip
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core processor as it looks to ramp up its push into the AI PC space, taking on Intel and AMD.
Qualcomm launched a new PC processor on Wednesday as it looks to capitalize on electronics makers' desire to put artificial intelligence on their devices.
The move ramps up Qualcomm's efforts to challenge the dominance of Intel in the PC processor market at a time when the latter is facing mounting challenges.
#technology #qualcomm #newsonleo #amd #chips
Qualcomm took the wraps off the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core at the IFA conference in Berlin, Germany. The processor, designed for PCs running Microsoft's Windows operating system, promises to power AI processes with a long battery life.
The latest chips expand Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series for PCs, which it launched last year.
The U.S. chip giant said the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core is designed for PCs costing as low as $700 as it looks to expand its semiconductors to more devices.
Qualcomm has traditionally designed chips that are used in the smartphones of many of the world's biggest players, including Samsung. But the company stepped up its PC efforts this year when Microsoft announced a Surface Laptop and a Surface Pro tablet with Qualcomm's X Series chips that can run some AI tasks without an internet connection. Microsoft calls these Copilot+ PCs.
Analysts said Qualcomm's timing to jump into PCs is key. Neil Shah, a partner at Counterpoint Research, highlighted a few converging themes that are helping the company. He highlighted the push toward "on-device AI," where artificial intelligence applications are processed on a piece of hardware rather than via the internet. Qualcomm has designed processors for smartphones that do this.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series is built on architecture from British chip designer Arm, allowing the processors to run complex applications with good energy-efficiency. This is key to extending battery life on devices.
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Neko Health, the body-scanning AI health startup from Spotify's Daniel Ek, opens in London
Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Today, a splashy startup that has taken that concept to heart
Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Today, a splashy startup that has taken that concept to heart — literally and figuratively — is expanding.
Neko Health was co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne with a mission to improve preventative healthcare with annual full body scans and AI-powered insights that can detect conditions like heart disease and skin cancer. Now, the Swedish company is launching in London, its first city outside of its home market.
#newsonleo #neko #healthcare
For £299 and an hour of your time, the company runs a series of scans and tests that it says creates “millions” of datapoints that help determine your state of health across a range of cardiovascular, metabolic, and other conditions. An in-person meeting with a doctor to discuss the data is included in the session. Those interested in getting in line for a visit can sign up here.
The company is coming to the U.K. on the heels of a strong start in Stockholm, where it has opened two clinics in its first year of operation. To date, it has scanned 2,707 people, and while 78.5% of them were found to have no health issues, results for some 14.1% of visitors raised issues that required further medical treatment. Some 1%, it said, were identified to have “severe” cardiovascular, metabolic, or cancerous conditions. Of that group, none were aware of their conditions prior to visiting Neko, the company said.
Neko is Japanese for “cat” and Nilsonne tells me that it’s a reference to cats having nine lives, or more specifically a lot of lucky breaks. “That’s how we would hope that our system feels for our users,” he said.
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New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars
Automakers are tweaking production processes to create a slew of new steels with just the right properties, allowing them to build cars that are both safer and more fuel-efficient
#technology #cars #steel
Impact investors FMO and BlueOrchard back Ghana’s digital lender Fido in $30M Series B round
Fido claims to have served a million customers and extended over $500 million in loans across Ghana and Uganda.
Digital lending platforms have become an easy and swift alternative source of credit for microenterprises and individuals overlooked by traditional banking institutions. These platforms have turned into a lifeline for millions of underbanked and demand will keep growing, pushing the value of the digital lending platform market in the Middle East and Africa to reach $2 billion in the next five years, recording a four-fold growth since 2021.
#newsonleo #funding #technology
This is the market opportunity Ghanaian fintech Fido plans to tap as it explores new markets in East and Southern Africa, sustained by fresh $30 million Series B debt-equity funding. The new capital includes a $20 million equity injection from global impact investment manager BlueOrchard and Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO.
Initially launched in 2015 by three Israeli entrepreneurs — Nadav Topolski, Tomer Edry and Nir Zepkowitz — to offer loans over mobile phones, Fido has over the years introduced other products, including savings, bill payments and smartphone financing, to grow its revenue streams.
The fintech is among a sizable number of companies in the African digital lending space, including venture-backed Branch and Tala, that are tapping mobile technology and alternative data sources, like mobile money transaction histories, to offer instant micro-loans to individuals and small businesses that are often unable to access credit from formal banking institutions.
Unlike lending apps, banks often loan to active customers, require collateral and involve lengthy processes that include paperwork. This has made micro-lenders an alternative, but expensive, source of capital even for small businesses, which Fido CEO, Alon Eitan, says “are the driver of economies, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, yet they get so little tools to grow.”
“A majority of the population in sub-Saharan Africa are either unbanked or underbanked, and for a lot of the customers that come into our ecosystem, we are probably their first-ever interaction with financial services. We take them from zero financial footprint to the point where they’ve built a whole financial backbone within an ecosystem where they can get credit, insurance, make savings, buy mobile phones and do their business,” said Eitan.
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Spotify launches its evolving playlist, daylist, globally
Spotify is launching daylist globally. It's a personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on your listening habits.
Spotify is launching daylist globally. It’s a personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on your listening habits. This rollout comes after the company introduced it first to English-speaking markets last year. The playlist will be available to both free and premium users.
The company said it is also adding support for 14 additional languages, including Arabic, Catalan, French (Canada), French (France), German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), and Turkish.
#spotify #newsonleo #playlist #technology
Spotify introduced daylist in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland in September 2023. In March 2024, the feature was made available in 65 more countries, and now the company is launching the feature in all the markets where Spotify is available.
Spotify noted that after the expansion in March, 70% of daylist users come back weekly to access the playlist. However, the company didn’t specify how many users overall have used this feature or how much music discovery it is driving.
Users can access daylist in the Spotify app through the “Made for You” section or on the web through this link. The playlist and its title update throughout the day with some goofy ones like “bedroom pop banger early morning” or “90s rave rainforest late night.” At the time of launch, Spotify said that it uses data of “niche music and microgenres” that you listen to at a particular time of the day to suggest tracks and update the daylist.
Users can also save a particular playlist they like by tapping on the three dot menu, selecting “Add to playlist” option, and tapping on “New Playlist” to save that exact daylist to their library.
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From their experiences at Uber and PayPal, Palm founders want to make moving cash easier for big companies
Palm launched in 2023 with the goal of making cash management for enterprise treasury teams easier.
At Uber, Gurjit Pannu remembers moving billions in cash across bank accounts globally, realizing almost immediately the importance of effective cash flow management.
Christian Sobkowski, meanwhile, recalls his days working in financial services, most notably at PayPal, where helped expand the company’s business across Europe.
#uber #technology #paypal #newsonleo
It’s no wonder then, that the two decided to come together as co-CEOs, pairing their financial backgrounds to create a company that, in hindsight, would have made Pannu’s former day job much easier.
“With Treasury teams deciding how the largest corporations move cash around the world, it became obvious that guiding those money flows was worthy of bringing the best talent to re-think how it’s done,” Sobkowski told TechCrunch.
The result is Palm, launched in 2023 with the goal of making cash management for enterprise treasury teams easier. Today, it’s announcing a $6.1 million seed round led by Speedinvest and Target Global. The company has built all-in-one platform to let businesses move money between hundreds of bank accounts and subsidiaries in a more efficient way.
Palm’s platform lets businesses move money between hundreds of bank accounts and subsidiaries in a more efficient way. It tracks daily money movement, and the setup process takes weeks rather than months like traditional treasurer systems, the founders claim. It also has an automated feature that provides tailored cash forecasting in a way that the company says outperforms human models at least 75% of the time.
“Although we had a treasury management system, all of the forecasting and money movements were managed in spreadsheets because the systems we used weren’t reliable enough to build the process around,” Pannu recalled of his time at Uber. “They required tons of workarounds and costly customization to meet our requirements. With an ever-evolving business, we couldn’t invest the time [or] money to customizing a process within the tool that would later become redundant.”
UK regulator greenlights Microsoft's Inflection acquihire, but also designates it a merger
The UK antitrust regulator has said that Microsoft's Inflection 'aqui-hire' counts as a merger, but doesn't cause competition concerns.
Good news for Microsoft: The U.K.’s antitrust regulator says that the tech titan’s high-profile acquihire of the team behind AI startup Inflection doesn’t cause competition concerns, and thus it won’t be pursuing a full-scale investigation.
However, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says that the deal does fall under its regulatory purview as a “relevant merger situation,” meaning similar deals in the future may still be investigated on competition grounds — even if a full acquisition has not taken place.
#newsonleo #uk #regulators #microsoft #merger
The ‘quasi-merger’
Microsoft launched a new consumer AI division back in March, spearheaded by the founders of Inflection which included Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that a number of other Inflection AI members had joined Microsoft’s new AI unit, such as AI scientist Jordan Hoffmann who is now heading up Microsoft’s U.K. AI hub in London.
Back in July, CMA revealed that it was launching a “phase 1” merger inquiry into the deal, kickstarting an investigation to gather evidence and decide whether to proceed with a full probe. Central to the initial phase was whether the deal could in fact be investigated as a “merger,” given that Microsoft hadn’t actually acquired Inflection AI. And if it did qualify as a merger, whether further action is required to counter competition concerns.
From their experiences at Uber and PayPal, Palm founders want to make moving cash easier for big companies
Palm launched in 2023 with the goal of making cash management for enterprise treasury teams easier.
At Uber, Gurjit Pannu remembers moving billions in cash across bank accounts globally, realizing almost immediately the importance of effective cash flow management.
Christian Sobkowski, meanwhile, recalls his days working in financial services, most notably at PayPal, where helped expand the company’s business across Europe.
#newsonleo #technology #paypal #palm
It’s no wonder then, that the two decided to come together as co-CEOs, pairing their financial backgrounds to create a company that, in hindsight, would have made Pannu’s former day job much easier.
“With Treasury teams deciding how the largest corporations move cash around the world, it became obvious that guiding those money flows was worthy of bringing the best talent to re-think how it’s done,” Sobkowski told TechCrunch.
The result is Palm, launched in 2023 with the goal of making cash management for enterprise treasury teams easier. Today, it’s announcing a $6.1 million seed round led by Speedinvest and Target Global. The company has built all-in-one platform to let businesses move money between hundreds of bank accounts and subsidiaries in a more efficient way.
Palm’s platform lets businesses move money between hundreds of bank accounts and subsidiaries in a more efficient way. It tracks daily money movement, and the setup process takes weeks rather than months like traditional treasurer systems, the founders claim. It also has an automated feature that provides tailored cash forecasting in a way that the company says outperforms human models at least 75% of the time.
“Although we had a treasury management system, all of the forecasting and money movements were managed in spreadsheets because the systems we used weren’t reliable enough to build the process around,” Pannu recalled of his time at Uber. “They required tons of workarounds and costly customization to meet our requirements. With an ever-evolving business, we couldn’t invest the time [or] money to customizing a process within the tool that would later become redundant.”
Canva has increased prices for its Teams product
Canva has steeply increased prices on some customers. It blames its aggressive expansion in the generative AI domain.
Canva, the design platform, is increasing prices steeply for some customers. And it’s blaming the move in part on generative AI.
In the U.S., some Canva Teams subscribers on older pricing plans are seeing the sticker price for a five-person plan jump from $119.99 per year to $500 per year (with a 40% discount for the first 12 months). In Australia, meanwhile, the flat $39.99 AUS (about $26) per-month fee for up to five users has been raised to $13.50 AUS for each user.
#newsonleo #canva #ai
On an individual user basis, Canva Teams prices are now $100 per person, or $10 a month per person, with a minimum of three people required for a Teams plan. Those prices were quietly changed earlier this year for new customers, but now the company is changing the price for customers who’d previously paid a lower price.
The price changes don’t apply to Canva’s Pro or Enterprise tiers.
In a statement to TechCrunch, a Canva spokesperson confirmed the new price points and pointed to the company’s growing suite of generative AI tools — including Magic Studio — as a reason for the adjustments. They also noted that some of Canva’s customers had been locked into lower prices that Canva no longer offers; Canva quietly changed its Teams pricing earlier this year to $10 per month for each user.
“Our original pricing reflected the early stage of this product and has remained unchanged for the last four years,” the spokesperson said. “We’re now updating the price for customers on this older plan to reflect our expanded product experience.”
Canva’s price hikes, which come as the company readies for an IPO, haven’t been well received, unsurprisingly. Users took particular issue with the fact that Canva communicated the changes through customer emails instead of publicly, as it has in the past.
The new pricing is a departure from Canva’s roots as an affordable alternative to design software like Adobe’s. It may also be a reflection of the startup growing too quickly, too fast; in March, Canva acquired U.K.-based graphic design software firm Serif for ~$380 million and just in August bought generative AI image company Leonardo.
Wow! This is extreme.
Wired: Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He’s Surprised by the Results
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-antony-blinken/
Wired: The Japanese Robot Controversy Lurking in Israel’s Military Supply Chain
https://www.wired.com/story/japan-fanuc-robots-israel-gaza-war/
BBC: The great smell-off: TikTok sparks debate on American vs European noses
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240902-do-americans-have-a-better-sense-of-smell-than-europeans
BBC: Sony takes Concord game offline two weeks after release
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3zw5w7l3o
BBC: Phone companies asked to help tackle rise in thefts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced1pjd3n3xo
Reuters Exclusive: Intel manufacturing business suffers setback as Broadcom tests disappoint
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-manufacturing-business-suffers-setback-broadcom-tests-disappoint-sources-2024-09-04/
Reuters: US antitrust trial targets Google's digital ad business
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-antitrust-trial-targets-googles-digital-ad-business-2024-09-04/
Reuters: UK clears Microsoft's partnership with Inflection AI
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/uk-clears-microsofts-partnership-with-inflection-ai-2024-09-04/
Reuters: Stocks sink but TSMC, Samsung bullish on AI at major trade show
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/stocks-sink-tsmc-samsung-bullish-ai-major-trade-show-2024-09-04/
Reuters: Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator
https://www.reuters.com/technology/starlink-says-its-complying-with-order-block-access-x-brazil-2024-09-03/
Reuters: Meta to inform Brazilians how it uses their personal data to train AI
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meta-inform-brazilians-how-it-uses-their-personal-data-train-ai-2024-09-03/
Reuters: Salesforce to acquire AI voice agent firm Tenyx, joining AI talent race
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/salesforce-acquire-ai-voice-agent-firm-tenyx-joining-ai-talent-race-2024-09-03/
Reuters: Alibaba's China e-commerce platforms to accept Tencent's Wechat Pay
https://www.reuters.com/technology/alibabas-domestic-e-commerce-platforms-will-begin-accepting-tencents-wechat-pay-2024-09-04/
Reuters: SK Hynix to start mass producing HBM3E 12-layer chips this month
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sk-hynix-start-mass-producing-hbm3e-12-layer-chips-this-month-2024-09-04/
Reuters: Snap to focus on growing ads business, augmented reality amid poor stock performance
https://www.reuters.com/technology/snap-focus-growing-ads-business-augmented-reality-amid-poor-stock-performance-2024-09-03/
Reuters: US safety commissioners call for investigation into Shein, Temu
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-safety-commissioners-call-investigation-into-shein-temu-2024-09-03/
Snap CEO says the company is testing a 'simplified' Snapchat
Snap is testing a "simplified version of Snapchat," CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a letter to employees published on Snap's website Tuesday.
Snap is testing a “simplified version of Snapchat,” CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a letter to employees published on Snap’s website Tuesday. The CEO says the simplified version aims to improve the platform’s accessibility and usability. For those that remember Snapchat’s 2018 redesign, this news may do little to stoke confidence.
Spiegel attempted to rally employee spirits with his letter on Tuesday after a depressing year for the company’s stock price, which has fallen nearly 50% in 2024.
#newsonleo #snap #messenger #technology
“Investors are concerned that we aren’t growing faster,” said Spiegel in the letter.
The “simplified” Snapchat may be an attempt to capture older users, who are historically perplexed by the app’s not-so-intuitive design. Snapchat does a lot better at attracting younger audiences, who seem to just get the app. But this isn’t the first time Snapchat has tried to reconcile these issues.
You might remember Snap’s 2017 earnings call when Spiegel admitted he had heard that “Snapchat is difficult to understand or hard to use,” particularly for older folks. Months later, Snap pushed out a major redesign to reclaim those users, jamming Stories between private messages, among other changes that ended up infuriating more users than it attracted.
A 2018 Change.org petition to “remove the new Snapchat update” received 1.2 million signatories, while celebrity influencers like Kylie Jenner, Chrissy Teigen and Marques Brownlee expressed their frustration. But even worse, the redesign cratered the platform’s ad views and revenue, alienating its younger userbase while failing in its bid to attract older users. By May of 2018, Snap was scrambling to roll back some of the changes.
Spiegel writes in Tuesday’s letter that early tests of the simplified redesign have been “directionally positive,” though the CEO notes “we will be thoughtful and deliberate about making a change of this magnitude.” He’s almost definitely alluding to the 2018 redesign failure, which I’m sure no one at Snap has forgotten about.
The announcement of a new, simplified version of Snapchat was tucked into Spiegel’s broader musings about Snap’s business strategy. He claimed that Snap’s venture into augmented reality glasses — which it calls Spectacles — would yield a market with no competitors. Perhaps he’s pretending that Meta’s AR glasses, Meta Ray-Bans, simply don’t exist?
AI tokens daily losses surpass market’s average downturn after DOJ subpoenas Nvidia
Blockchain AI agents category shows steeper 11.1% average intraday decline amid market downturn.
Nvidia got subpoenaed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sept. 3 as the chipmaker is investigated over potential antitrust law violations. As a result, Nvidia shares are already down 8.3% on the week, and artificial intelligence (AI) tokens are tanking more than average.
While major crypto such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) slumped 4.3% and 4.4% in the past 24 hours, respectively, AI-related tokens tanked 7.1% on average in the period. This is one of the worst daily performances by a crypto category, according to CoinGecko’s data. In the weekly timeframe, their average drawdown is 13.7%.
#technology #blockchain #ai #doj
Bittensor (TAO) and Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI) tokens had the worst daily performances among AI tokens with over $1 billion in market cap, falling by 7.8% each.
Meanwhile, Near Protocol (NEAR), Render (RENDER), and Internet Computer (ICP) followed the broad crypto market downturn by shedding 4.6%, 5.2%, and 3.7% over the past 24 hours, respectively.
Notably, the category of blockchain AI agents showed an even worse performance, dropping by 11.1% on average in the intraday period. AI agents, as the name suggests, are parts of blockchain infrastructures that are autonomous, and can act as traders, miners, validators, or arbitrageurs.
AI agents tokens such as Phala (PHA) and Oraichain (ORAI) are down by 4.7% and 5.3% in the past 24 hours.
The crypto market has been showing choppy sideways trading at least since March when Bitcoin reached its recent all-time high in the $73,700 price area. Thus, the recent downturn in prices is a movement that is to be expected.
As highlighted by the trader known as Rekt Capital, BTC is trading within a price channel on the weekly timeframe and could turn the $58,000 price level into resistance if it doesn’t close the week above $58,300.
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How important is data?
boldlVery important for reference purposes
#gmfrens
Size matters
Facebook has ~10x the proprietary language data on database as was used to train the LLaMa models
In images they have 20x more than that
Instagram and Youtube have 2x more that in uploaded video
And yet Tesla's data capture-ability dwarfs all (at 20x more again)
https://inleo.io/threads/view/taskmaster4450le/re-czchykjzum?referral=taskmaster4450le
What is an algorithm?
An algorithm is a set of instructions that is used to solve a specific problem or perform a particular task. It is a well-defined procedure that takes some input, processes it, and produces a corresponding output. algorithms can be expressed in various forms, such as natural language, flowcharts, pseudocode, or programming languages.
A good algorithm typically has the following characteristics:
Algorithms can be used to solve a wide range of problems, such as:
Some examples of algorithms include:
In summary, an algorithm is a set of instructions that is used to solve a specific problem or perform a particular task. It is a well-defined procedure that takes some input, processes it, and produces a corresponding output.
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a revolutionary AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI that can understand and respond to human input in a conversational manner. It's a large language model trained on a massive dataset of text from the Internet, which enables it to generate human-like responses to a wide range of topics and questions.
ChatGPT is based on a transformer architecture, which is a type of neural network designed specifically for natural language processing tasks. This architecture allows the model to process input text in a hierarchical manner, understanding the context and relationships between words and phrases.
Some of the key features of ChatGPT include:
ChatGPT has many potential applications, including:
VW is looking at closing as many as 5 plants and is taking a lot of cost cutting measures.
The automotive carnage is starting.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/taskmaster4450le/re-leothreads-2pnqchdxq?referral=taskmaster4450le
This is the future of programming. Look at what @ahmadmanga built.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/ahmadmanga/re-leothreads-2xqyruvek
I'm happy it's getting traction.~
It worked that is key. Keep at it and then we can promote the hell out of it.
Be sure to mention it in the threadcast on the Lions Den on Friday, I will mention it on air.
#ai scaling is going to be key. Those who believe this is the path to artificial general intelligence are raising a ton of money. If they are wrong, it is the best waste in human history.
What is artificial super intelligence?
Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) refers to a hypothetical AI system that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest human minds. It is often described as a system that can learn, reason, and apply knowledge at a level that is significantly beyond human capabilities.
ASI is often characterized by the following features:
The concept of ASI is often associated with the idea of the "Singularity," a hypothetical point in time when ASI becomes capable of re-designing itself and accelerating its own growth, leading to an exponential increase in its capabilities.
Some potential applications of ASI include:
However, the development of ASI also raises significant concerns, including:
Overall, the concept of ASI is both exciting and unsettling, and it is an area of ongoing research and debate in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, and philosophy.