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Quick Charge Podcast: January 13, 2024

January 15, 2024
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. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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CryptoNews

Spot Bitcoin ETF Approvals, Ethereum's Outperformance, BTC Mystery Transfer, and More

January 15, 2024
The SEC approved spot bitcoin ETFs, sparking a lukewarm market response despite ethereum’s rising prominence. Meanwhile, intrigue swirled around a mysterious $1.19 million bitcoin transfer to the genesis address linked to Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The launch day of U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs saw a staggering $4.6 billion in trading volume, with Blackrock’s debut ETF alone accounting…
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CryptoNews

Cryptocurrency Rights Bill Lands in Indiana

January 15, 2024
Indiana is adding its name to the list of states that intend to guarantee the cryptocurrency rights of its citizens. A cryptocurrency bill that guarantees the non-intervention of the state government of Indiana in cryptocurrency self-custody, mining, validation, and other issues was recently introduced by Rep. Heath VanNatter in the Indiana General Assembly (IGA). Blockchain and Cryptocurrency…
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AI & RoboticsNews

One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’

January 12, 2024
Massive AI training datasets, or corpora, have been called “the backbone of large language models.” But EleutherAI, the organization that created one of the world’s largest of these datasets, an 825 GB open-sourced diverse text corpora called the Pile, became a target in 2023 amid a growing uproar focused on the legal and ethical impact of the datasets that trained the most popular LLMs…
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