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1inch to Feature Hong Kong Kung Fu Legend Bruce Lee in Video and NFT Campaign

1inch Network has announced a long-term partnership with the Bruce Lee Family Company, aimed at fostering the adoption of decentralized finance and Web3 under the slogan “Take crypto seriousLee.” This collaboration celebrates the legacy of Bruce Lee, whose iconic “one-inch punch” inspired the name of the 1inch platform. The partnership will kick off with a promotional video and a campaign…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Stable Diffusion 3.5 debuts as Stability AI aims to improve open models for generating images

Stability AI is out today with a major update for its text to image generative AI technology with the debut of Stable Diffusion 3.5. A key goal for the new update is raise the bar and improve upon Stability AI’s last major update, which the company admitted didn’t live up to its own standards. Stable Diffusion 3 was first previewed back in February and the first open model version became…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Arkansas may be sitting on 19 million tons of lithium

Researchers now estimate how much “white gold” may be found in southern Arkansas’s vast lithium reserves: up to 19 million tons, or enough to meet the projected 2030 world demand nine times over. United States Geological Survey (USGS) researchers used water testing and machine learning to get an estimate of what might be found in an underground brine in the Smackover Formation in southern…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X

A pair of researchers at OpenAI researchers has published a paper describing a new type of model — specifically, a new type of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) — that increases the speed at which multimedia including images, video, and audio can be generated by AI by 50 times compared to traditional diffusion models, generating images in nearly a 10th of a second compared to more than 5…
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