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Ford beats Q4 earnings estimates despite EV pullback, hybrid shift

Ford reported its fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday after the market, beating Q4 revenue and profit estimates. The automaker expects the momentum to continue in 2024 despite pulling back EV investments. Ford’s fourth-quarter EV sales Ford sold a record 25,637 EVs in the last three months of 2023 (+24% YOY), edging out rival GM. The F-150 Lightning topped Rivian’s R1T to become the…
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CryptoNews

Leading Privacy Crypto Monero Bounces Back: XMR Surges 25%, Defying Delisting Woes

After the leading privacy crypto token moneron experienced a substantial 32% price decline on Tuesday, the coin’s value swiftly saw recovery the next day, surging by 25% within the last 24 hours. Binance, Kraken, and Kucoin are witnessing significant activity in monero’s daily trading volume, amounting to $256.91 million over the past 24 hours. Monero’s Quick Bounce Back Monero (XMR)…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos

Stability AI, the company known for its growing array of open source AI models for content creation and coding, today announced an upgrade for its image-to-video latent diffusion model, Stable Video Diffusion (SVD). Dubbed SVD 1.1, the updated model is a fine-tuned version of SVD 1.0, optimized to generate short AI videos with better motion and more consistency. In a post announcing the upgrade…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AMD unveils Embedded+ architecture for edge AI hardware

Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its brand new Embedded+ architecture, a fusion of AMD Ryzen Embedded processors with Versal adaptive System-on-Chips (SoCs) on a unified integrated board. These chips — a hybrid of PC processors and Xilinx programmable chips — are…
DefenseNews

US Army hunts for explosives to meet increased munitions output goals

As the U.S. Army seeks to drastically ramp up its 155mm munitions production to 100,000 a month by the end of 2025, the biggest concern for the service’s acquisition chief is being able to secure enough explosives to fill them. “You have to produce enough explosives – either IMX-104 or TNT – to fill that many shells that fast and that production capacity does not exist in the United States…
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