PARIS — France is changing its acquisition process for light military drone unmanned aerial vehicles to become more nimble and signed a pact with local drone makers as the country’s Army threatens to fall behind in a technology that military leaders say is remaking warfare.
French Armed Forces Minister Sebastian Lecornu signed a “defense UAV pact” at the Eurosatory defense show here on…
Ford pulls sheet off the F-150 'SuperTruck' it will race up Pikes Peak, complete with 1,400 hp
June 19, 2024
Last year, we saw Ford Performance race an all-electric “SuperVan” up the hill at Pikes Peak, but this year, it’s upping the ante with a souped-up version of the F-150 Lightning called the “SuperTruck.” SPOILER ALERT… it has a huge spoiler.
The Pikes Peak…
A new electric SUV is primed to take on BYD and Tesla in China. GM’s joint venture, SAIC-GM-Wuling, unveiled the first teaser images of its new Starlight S electric SUV Monday. Check out the first images below.
GM’s Wuling previews new electric SUV
The new electric SUV…
Elon did enough to convince shareholders he deserved his multi billion dollar payout, but can he convince Delaware courts? Meanwhile, Hyundai and Kia invest in North American manufacturing, NIO is ramping up production of its 650 mile solid-state EV, and Volvo got a big win at Le Mans. All this and more on today’s episode of Quick Charge!
Also interesting: it turns out, most of you don’t know…
SEC's Crypto Enforcement Chief Departs After 9 Years
June 19, 2024
The head of the Crypto Asset and Cyber Unit at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Division of Enforcement has left the agency after nine years of service. Under his guidance, the SEC took many enforcement actions against crypto firms, including major…
Financial Stability Board Emphasizes Need for Global Crypto Regulation to Prevent Arbitrage
June 19, 2024
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Plenary met in Toronto on June 14 to discuss various financial stability issues. Key topics included the financial stability outlook, lessons from the March 2023 banking turmoil, and enhancing the resilience of non-bank financial…
Tether, one of the largest companies in the stablecoin arena, has announced the launch of Alloy, a series of assets pegged to the value of another asset, but collateralized with gold. The first token in the Alloy lineup is AUSDT, which will track the value of the U.S. dollar using Tether Gold (XAUT) as collateral.
Tether Launches Alloy to Ease Issuance of Gold-Backed ‘Tethered Assets’
Tether…
AI red teaming is proving effective in discovering security gaps that other security approaches can’t see, saving AI companies from having their models used to produce objectionable content. Anthropic released its AI red team guidelines last week, joining a group of AI…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which previously made headlines with a ChatGPT competitor trained on 2 trillion English and Chinese tokens, has announced the release of DeepSeek Coder V2, an open-source mixture of experts (MoE) code language model. Built upon DeepSeek-V2, an…
Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
June 18, 2024
New York City-based Runway ML, also known as Runway, was among the earliest startups to focus on realistic high-quality generative AI video creation models. But following the debut of its Gen-1 model in February 2023 and Gen-2 in June 2023, the company has since seen its star occluded by other highly realistic AI video generators, namely OpenAI’s still-unreleased Sora model and Luma AI’s…
