AI & RoboticsNews

Layer announces $3M seed to produce AI copilots that are ‘ten times’ faster than humans

October 17, 2023
AI copilots are increasingly the rage as the generative AI boom reaches its first-year anniversary (since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022). But even with companies from Microsoft to recruiting software iCIMS launching copilots — the question remains: how useful, reliable, and helpful will they be to end-users? Layer, a new startup based in Columbus, Ohio, seeks to help other…
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CryptoNews

Russian Crypto Exchange Moves Money for Gaza Groups, Report – Exchanges Bitcoin News

October 17, 2023
Palestinian militant organizations, including a Hamas-linked Islamist group, have been using a Moscow-based crypto exchange to transfer millions, a press report revealed. The U.S.-sanctioned platform, which allows customers to convert Russian cash to crypto and then withdraw fiat abroad, has been also serving criminal gangs and rich Russians, sources claim. Russian Exchange Allegedly Transfers…
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DefenseNews

The Air Force is launching an era of transformation. Can it work?

October 16, 2023
The Air Force is entering what leaders say could be its most transformational period in a generation, as the service looks to position itself as a global powerhouse for decades to come. If their vision comes true, the Air Force would enter the 2030s as a smaller but more flexible force that is better positioned to win America’s wars, with sharper leaders and savvier airmen. Just give it…
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NewsSpace

Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant

October 16, 2023
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth. The detection, which was uniquely possible with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared…
AI & RoboticsNews

Smarter than humans in 5 years? The breakneck pace of AI

October 16, 2023
Geoffrey Hinton, often dubbed one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has been particularly outspoken since his retirement from Google earlier this year. He is credited with perfecting and popularizing “backpropagation,” a pivotal algorithm that enables multi-layer neural…
CryptoNews

Latam Insights: Venezuela and Argentina Leverage 'Unique' Crypto Use Cases, Brazilian Congress Advises Indicting CZ – Bitcoin News

October 16, 2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Venezuela and Argentina use crypto uniquely, according to Chainalysis; the Brazilian Congress recommends indicting Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, and the Argentine peso keeps falling to record lows. Chainalysis: Argentina and Venezuela Present Unique Crypto Use…
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