A segment on CBS weekly in-depth TV news program 60 Minutes last night (also shared on YouTube here) offered an inside look at Google’s DeepMind and the vision of its co-founder and Nobel Prize-winning CEO, legendary AI researcher Demis Hassabis.
The interview traced Google DeepMind rapid progress in artificial intelligence and its ambition to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a…
New 2026 Volvo S90 looks great – but if you can read this, you probably can't have one
April 22, 2025
Volvo Cars took the wraps off new-for-2026 S90 plug-in hybrid, calling the big sedan the most elegant and comfortable 90 yet, promising nearly 50 miles (80 km) of all-electric range and a comprehensive suite of high-end technology and design updates … but if you’re…
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Today’s episode of Quick Charge discusses the “messy middle” in trucking, legacy brands’ efforts to boost efficiency, and ReVolt Motors’ CEO perspective. Features include the Kenworth Supertruck 2 concept, Revoy hybrid trailer, and…
Thanks to Trump’s repeated executive order attacks on US clean energy policy, nearly $8 billion in investments and 16 new large-scale factories and other projects were cancelled, closed, or downsized in Q1 2025.
The $7.9 billion in investments withdrawn since January are more than three times the total investments cancelled over the previous 30 months, according to nonpartisan policy group…
A new era dawns at the SEC as its freshly appointed chair signals a bold pivot toward clear, market-friendly digital asset regulation that could ignite industry growth.
New SEC Era Begins: Will Digital Assets Finally Get the Clarity They Crave?
The U.S. Securities and…
XRP is surging into Wall Street’s core as Coinbase launches regulated futures, Ripple secures prime brokerage power, and institutional momentum primes explosive mainstream adoption.
Coinbase Debuts Regulated XRP Futures, Strengthening Institutional Crypto Access in US…
Crypto Firms Eye Bank Charters Amid Regulatory Shift
April 22, 2025
U.S. digital asset firms are reportedly considering applying for bank charters and licenses, encouraged by the Trump administration’s more favorable stance towards the crypto industry.
Trump Policies Spur Crypto Firms’ Banking Industry Interest
Several U.S. digital asset firms are considering applying for bank charters and licenses, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing anonymous…
How NTT Research has shifted more basic R&D into AI for the enterprise | Kazu Gomi interview
April 21, 2025
Kazu Gomi has a big view of the technology world from his perch in Silicon Valley. And as president and CEO of NTT Research, a division of the big Japanese telecommunications firm NTT, Gomi can control the R&D budget for a sizable chunk of the basic research that is done…
Just a year ago, the narrative around Google and enterprise AI felt stuck. Despite inventing core technologies like the Transformer, the tech giant seemed perpetually on the back foot, overshadowed by OpenAI‘s viral success, Anthropic‘s coding prowess and Microsoft‘s…
The distant horizon is always murky, the minute details obscured by sheer distance and atmospheric haze. This is why forecasting the future is so imprecise: We cannot clearly see the outlines of the shapes and events ahead of us. Instead, we take educated guesses.
The newly published AI 2027 scenario, developed by a team of AI researchers and forecasters with experience at institutions like…
