BMW Motorrad has issued a “stop sale” notice for all of its internal combustion engine motorcycles in the US. The notice covers both new and used models, and specifically lists the BMW CE 04, an electric motorbike, as the only model still for sale from the company’s dealers.
The issue appears to be related to the fuel system in BMW’s motorcycles, and is likely to be a problem that has…
Phrasee appoints new CEO to head into the future of AI-based marketing
September 21, 2023
Phrasee, a digital marketing firm in London, said it has appointed Dan Head as CEO as it helps guide content marketers through the AI revolution.
Head was formerly chief revenue officer at Braze, including during its growth from series-B funding to its IPO in November 2021.
The largest digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments, filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 19 for a new exchange-traded fund dedicated to ethereum (ETH) futures. The Grayscale Ethereum Futures Trust will hold ethereum…
Ex-Deutsche Bank Investment Banker Faces Up to 30 Years in Prison for Crypto Fraud – Legal Bitcoin News
September 21, 2023
A registered broker and former investment banker with financial giant Deutsche Bank has pleaded guilty to defrauding investors into a fraudulent crypto fund. He is facing up to 30 years in prison and will be required to pay restitution of more than $1.5 million, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Ex-Deutsche Bank Investment Banker Pleads Guilty
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced…
Take control of your own power usage with BLUETTI's new EP800 Energy Storage System
September 21, 2023
Energy storage systems provider BLUETTI continues to showcase why it is one of the best in the business, unveiling yet another innovative product that puts power management into the hands of the consumer. The company’s new is modular to the point of offering nearly 20,000…
Could it be? The Nismo EV we’ve been waiting for? A sleek Nissan Ariya prototype was spotted at the Nurburgring recently, featuring several Nismo-like design features.
Nissan introduced the Ariya in 2020, its first dedicated EV in over a decade following the LEAF. The…
A new 1 GW solar cell factory is launching in South Carolina
September 21, 2023
Canadian solar cell and panel maker Silfab Solar is opening a flagship $150 million solar cell factory in South Carolina.
The 785,000-square-foot factory’s annual production capacity will include 1 gigawatt (GW) of cell production capacity and 1.2 GW of additional panel production capacity. Silfab Solar’s York County factory is expected to create more than 800 jobs. The South Carolina…
Former Google AI researcher Jakob Uszkoreit was one of the eight co-authors of the seminal 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformers architecture that went on to underpin ChatGPT and most other large language models (LLMs). The fact that…
Lenovo launches new TruScale edge service to bring AI and ML to brick-and-mortar businesses
September 21, 2023
PC giant Lenovo isn’t content with just selling you or your company laptops — it also wants to the be provider-of-choice for enterprises looking to run machine learning (ML) and AI models right out in the field where they are already doing business, such as at grocery…
Even OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever calls deep learning ‘alchemy’
September 21, 2023
A VentureBeat conversation with machine ethicist Thomas Krendl Gilbert, in which he called today’s AI a form of ‘alchemy,’ not science, raised many eyebrows in this week’s AI Beat.
“The people building it actually think that what they’re doing is magical,” he said in the piece. “And that’s rooted in a lot of metaphors, ideas that have now filtered into public discourse over the…