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Quick Charge Podcast: November 18, 2023

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.  If you’re looking for a high-quality e-scooter with superior performance, check out the new , , , and the R40 and R55 high-speed race scooters from VMAX. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Realtime generative AI art is here thanks to LCM-LoRA

Generative AI art has quickly emerged as one of the most interesting and popular applications of the new technology, with models such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney claiming millions of users, not to mention OpenAI’s move to bundle its DALL-E 3 image generation model…
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How Microsoft is reducing its dependence on OpenAI

The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has proven to be mutually beneficial. Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI has propelled it to the forefront of AI innovation, expanding the market for its enterprise cloud and AI offerings.  In turn, OpenAI has leveraged Microsoft’s financial resources, computational power, and market reach to transform from a research lab into an AI company that…
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Sam Altman fired as OpenAI CEO: the tech world reacts

On the heels of the abrupt announcement today from OpenAI that its board of directors had fired co-founder Sam Altman as CEO due to him allegedly being “not consistently candid in his communications with the board,” the tech world is reacting with a range of emotions to…
CryptoNews

Report: US Crypto Exchange Coinbase Fined for Refusing to Localize Russian Users' Data – Bitcoin News

The U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was recently hit with a fine exceeding $11,000 by a Russian court. The fine stems from the crypto exchange’s refusal to comply with a law that requires foreign companies to localize data of their respective Russian users or customers. Localizing Databases of Russian Users A court in Russia recently imposed a fine of just over $11,000 on the U.S.
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Watch this robot install solar panels in Arizona [video]

Terabase Energy has successfully completed its first commercial solar installation using Terafab, its automatic solar-installing robot. Solar-installing robot The Terafab robot – aka the “construction automation platform” – installed 17 megawatts (MW) of the 225 MW White Wing Ranch project in Yuma County, Arizona, on which solar tech company Terabase Energy is working alongside…
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