Battery-swapping leader Gogoro has just inked a new deal to see thousands of new battery-swapping GoStations added to the company’s existing force of swap stations already operating around Asia and the Middle East.
The announcement is part of a Memorandum of Understanding with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL), a prominent Indian oil company with over 21,000 retail outlets.
Gogoro…
Global leaders scramble to regulate the future of AI
November 6, 2023
There is no doubt that the pace of AI development has accelerated over the last year. Due to rapid advances in technology, the idea that AI could one day be smarter than people has moved from science fiction to plausible near-term reality.
Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award…
NFT Markets Rebound With 18% Rise to $106M; Bitcoin NFTs Take Second Place Under Ether's Lead – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
November 6, 2023
Between October 29 and November 5, 2023, sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) rose by 18.30% compared to the week before, reaching a high of $106.32 million. This week’s NFT statistics reveal an uptick in activity, with the number of buyers and sellers climbing by 17.77%…
Moonstone Research Study Etches Doubts on Monero's Privacy; Crypto Community Reacts – Privacy Bitcoin News
November 6, 2023
On September 1, 2023, hackers made off with 2,675.73 monero (XMR), worth over $3 million at the time, from the Monero CCS donation wallet in nine separate transactions. Now, blockchain analysis firm Moonstone Research has traced forward through three of those transactions in a postmortem released this week.
Monero Privacy Challenged in Monero CCS Wallet Trace
Just 65 days ago, a monero (XMR)…
Elon Musk unveils xAI’s first product Grok, an LLM offering realtime data, efficiency and ‘humor’
November 6, 2023
Following up on his proclamation last week that xAI would begin allowing selected users access to its first AI product, founder Elon Musk on Sunday morning revealed it to the world, and it is very much aligned with his sensibilities and often irreverent and immature sense of…
Alleged OpenAI DevDay leak suggests connections to cloud drives, custom chatbot builder
November 6, 2023
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI‘s first-ever developer conference, DevDay, is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Monday, November 6, and the company’s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has already hyped on X that there will be “some great stuff to show developers!” But apparent leaks on…
Smart Contract Platform Tokens Command 26% of Crypto Economy Amidst Market Gains – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
November 6, 2023
It’s been a strong week for smart contract platform tokens, with the top ten performers all notching growth against the U.S. dollar. The rise ranged from ethereum’s (ETH) 4.2% jump to solana’s (SOL) 32.5% surge. The smart contract coin sector witnessed 32 crypto assets achieving double-digit percentage increases, starting with OMG’s 10.2% and scaling up to JUNO’s 110.8% escalation.
From…
Here at Electrek we have spent countless hours undertaking detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through those thousands of miles of riding, we’ve gotten to know these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That dedication to real world…
Former SEC Official Warns SBF Conviction Is 'Just the Tip of the Iceberg' for All of Crypto – Regulation Bitcoin News
November 5, 2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s former head of internet enforcement says the conviction of ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is “just the tip of the iceberg” for the entire crypto industry. “People should not think that it’s safe to go back in the…
Do we have enough GPUs to manifest AI’s potential?
November 5, 2023
In 2023, few technologies have garnered as much attention, speculation and promise as AI. We are undoubtedly in the midst of an unprecedented AI hype cycle.
In some ways, the moment is akin to a modern-day gold rush as innovators, investors and entrepreneurs clamor to capitalize on the technology’s promise and potential.
Like California’s 19th-century gold rush, today’s frenzy has…
