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Cambridge Study Unveils Ethereum's Environmental Impact Post-Merge, Highlighting Major Energy Reduction – Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023
The transformation of the Ethereum network, popularly known as ‘The Merge,’ marked a significant shift in the blockchain’s energy usage and climate impact. A detailed report by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) meticulously dissects this journey, offering invaluable insights into Ethereum’s historical and current ecological footprint. This transition, deeply rooted in…
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Big Names Talk Potential Impact of ETFs on BTC Price, Solo Miner Pulls Down Lucky Block Reward, and More — Week in Review – The Weekly Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023
Global investment bank JPMorgan has noted that SEC approval of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) could “put severe downward pressure on bitcoin prices.” Conversely, Standard Chartered Bank sees “price upside” related to such an approval from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In other news, a solo bitcoin miner has snagged a block reward with just 0.0004% of the…
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AI21 leader: Leading LLMs remain ‘differentiated’, they are not commodities

December 4, 2023
Yoav Shoham, Co-CEO of a leading large language model (LLM) company A121, reacts to comments made recently by Amazon and others that imply LLMs are losing their differentiation. He disagrees, saying: “Models do differentiate.” Shoham’s company, AI21, is a provider of AI systems for enterprise companies, and it specializes in offering task-specific LLMs, including models that do text…
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Looking back at a transformative year for AI

December 4, 2023
It has been a year since OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT as a “research preview,” a chatbot based on a large language model (LLM). LLMs are a particular implementation of transformer neural networks, a technology that first surfaced in a 2017 paper from Google. ChatGPT…
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This lunchbox-sized folding electric scooter is even funkier than Honda's Motocompacto

December 4, 2023
Honda recently unveiled a small, folding electric scooter known as the Motocompacto that is often referred to as a suitcase scooter. But now a rival Japanese electric scooter company has what could become a serious competitor. Meet Arma, the first lunchbox scooter. The Arma scooter is both smaller and lighter than Honda’s Motocompacto, making it an even more portable design. While the…
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