AI & RoboticsNews

Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable - and important - AI interview of the year

April 16, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in Vancouver last week. “I have never seen growth in any company, one that I’ve been involved with or not, like this,” Sam Altman told TED head Chris Anderson during their on-stage…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Chargetronix's new 1,280 kW system can charge up to 16 electric trucks from a single cabinet

April 16, 2025
EV charging solutions provider Chargetronix has unveiled a new state-of-the-art distribution system alongside its third-generation chargers. The 1,280 kW system can charge up to 16 electric trucks from each cabinet, and Chargetronix’s next-generation chargers will serve both fleet and passenger EVs. Chargetronix is an EV charging specialist centered in the US and focused on local manufacturing.
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CryptoNews

Ripple Talks XRP Settlement With SEC—CEO Predicts $200K Bitcoin

April 16, 2025
Ripple eyes a landmark SEC settlement paid in XRP as CEO Brad Garlinghouse boldly forecasts bitcoin hitting $200,000, signaling explosive momentum for the crypto market. Ripple Discusses Settling With SEC Using XRP, CEO Sees $200K Bitcoin Ahead Ripple Chief Executive Brad Garlinghouse said the company’s settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could potentially involve…
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CryptoNews

China Jails 9 in $6M Crypto Scam Hitting Indians

April 16, 2025
China cracks down hard on cross-border crypto fraud, jailing fraudsters in a major blow to digital crime targeting Indians. China Drops Heavy Prison Terms Over Cross-Border Crypto Fraud on Indians A wide-reaching crypto scam targeting Indian nationals has led to harsh prison…
AI & RoboticsNews

Now it’s TikTok parent ByteDance’s turn for a reasoning AI: enter Seed-Thinking-v1.5!

April 14, 2025
It started with the announcement of OpenAI’s o1 model in Sept. 2024, but really took off with the DeepSeek R1 release in Jan. 2025. Now, it seems that most major AI model providers and trainers are in a new race to deliver better, faster, and cheaper “reasoning” AI language models — that is, ones that maybe take a little longer to respond to a human user, but ideally do so with better…
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