This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Aventon and Lectric XP Trike2, a surge in Amish riding e-bikes, a wireless charging kickstand, cheaper electric motorcycles coming from Honda and LiveWire and more.
The Wheel-E podcast returns…
Aviation startup ZeroAvia says it’s been granted a “raft” of 45 new patents key to the development of practical large hydrogen aviation engines – and the company says it has 200 more H-related patents in the pipeline!
The news comes just weeks after ZeroAvia and…
Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’
July 21, 2025
Autonomous AI coding startup Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the AI developer tools startup best known for its agentic integrated development environment (IDE). The two companies made the announcement on their respective X accounts on Monday.
Anthropic launches finance-specific Claude with built-in data connectors, higher limits and prompt libraries
July 21, 2025
As some regulated enterprises cautiously expand their use of AI, platform and model makers are starting to offer bespoke versions to specific industries.
Anthropic is making its first step into that direction with the new Claude for Financial Services, essentially a special version of its Claude for Enterprise tier, that could soothe some of the fears of the sector around interoperability and tool…
Liquid AI, the startup formed by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers to develop novel AI model architectures beyond widely-used transformers, today announced the release of the Liquid Edge AI Platform (LEAP). The cross-platform software development…
Salesforce used AI to cut support load by 5% — but the real win was teaching bots to say ‘I’m sorry’
July 21, 2025
Salesforce has crossed a significant threshold in the enterprise AI race, surpassing 1 million autonomous agent conversations on its help portal — a milestone that offers a rare glimpse into what it takes to deploy AI agents at massive scale and the surprising lessons…
In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.
Called the “ChatGPT agent,” this new feature is an optional mode that ChatGPT paying subscribers can engage by clicking “Tools” in the prompt entry box and selecting “agent mode,” at which point, they can ask ChatGPT to log into their email and…
AI represents the greatest cognitive offloading in the history of humanity. We once offloaded memory to writing, arithmetic to calculators and navigation to GPS. Now we are beginning to offload judgment, synthesis and even meaning-making to systems that speak our language…
Ever since Strategy, previously Microstrategy, began putting bitcoin ( BTC) into its company coffers, a significant number of other businesses have followed suit. Currently, various organizations are incorporating leading alternative coins into their financial holdings, and…
Goldman Trader Notes Market Strength, Crypto Ascent to $4T Amid Warning on Shifting Risk/Reward
July 21, 2025
Goldman Sachs’ top trader, Tony Pasquarello, sees the U.S. stock rally holding its pace but flags a shifting risk and reward dynamic as summer approaches—especially with the crypto market ballooning to a staggering $4 trillion in value.
Goldman’s Pasquarello on Markets: Rally Fueled, Risks Rising
In a market note covered by Tyler Durden at Zerohedge, Pasquarello, who leads hedge fund…
