Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, says he will never buy a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) as he is holding bitcoin for the long term as digital gold. “Why would I pay these fees?” he said, adding that spot bitcoin ETFs “add no value” and are “completely unnecessary.” However, the Shark Tank star explained that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approving spot…
Cryptocurrency Rights Bill Lands in Indiana
January 15, 2024
Indiana is adding its name to the list of states that intend to guarantee the cryptocurrency rights of its citizens. A cryptocurrency bill that guarantees the non-intervention of the state government of Indiana in cryptocurrency self-custody, mining, validation, and other…
As the retail industry gears up for the big NRF 2024 conference that gets started on Jan. 13, it is clear that generative AI will be top of mind for many and Google is aiming to be a key part of the action.
Today Google Cloud announced a series of AI technologies and…
Microsoft wants to make it easier for marketers to build campaigns and it’s integrating with technology from generative AI startup Typeface to get it done.
Today Microsoft and Typeface announced an integration that will see the startup’s highly-customizable generative AI technology embedded into the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights platform. San Francisco-based Typeface only emerged…
One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’
January 12, 2024
Massive AI training datasets, or corpora, have been called “the backbone of large language models.” But EleutherAI, the organization that created one of the world’s largest of these datasets, an 825 GB open-sourced diverse text corpora called the Pile, became a target…
Legacy tech giants Microsoft and SAP are elbowing into the retail industry’s rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, hoping their new tools will help retailers struggling to keep pace with changing consumer behaviors and unrelenting market volatility.
This week…
REE's P7-C becomes first 'x-by-wire' EV certified in US, may qualify for up to $100k in incentives
January 12, 2024
Two years after first announcing its P7 EV platform, REE Automotive has achieved US certification for the first-ever vehicle that operates entirely through steer-by-wire, brake-by-wire, and drive-by-wire technology. Following the achievement, REE has begun deliveries of its P7-C electric truck.
REE Automotive, Inc.’s ($REE) most recent milestone comes during a busy news week during CES 2024.
It’s a common refrain heard from drivers everywhere, “Those dang cyclists don’t respect the rules of the road!”. But how do bike riders and car drivers actually compare when it comes to obeying traffic laws? That’s exactly what one scientific study set about to…
Good news – the world has a real chance of achieving its goal of tripling renewables by 2030
January 12, 2024
The world added 50% more renewable capacity in 2023 than in 2022 –and that means it has a real chance of achieving the goal set by governments at the COP28 climate change conference of tripling global capacity by 2030.
The amount of renewable energy capacity added to…
Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has revealed that he bought additional bitcoin following the approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The famous author is deeply concerned about the U.S. economy, particularly the threat of hyperinflation.
Robert Kiyosaki Increases Bitcoin Holdings After SEC Green-Lights Spot BTC ETFs
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