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Why more teenagers should ride electric bikes

August 30, 2023
Much of the media is at it again, hyping up a manufactured fear of electric bikes. (Side note: I know that sentence makes me sound all MAGA, but even as a card-carrying liberal, I can call out media bias). The issue this time centers around American teenagers on e-bikes and the manufactured choice between supposed “freedom or danger.” While not alone, the New York Times has been at the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI seeks to dismiss majority of Sarah Silverman’s and authors’ claims in ChatGPT lawsuits

August 30, 2023
OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and its underlying large language models (LLMs) GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, has filed motions to dismiss in two copyright lawsuits levied against the company for using copyrighted materials in AI model training data. The plaintiffs include a pair of U.S. authors and a second group including comedian and actor Sarah Silverman. In the filings submitted to the U.S.
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CryptoNews

SEC's 'Secret' Filing in Binance Case Could Relate to Criminal Investigation, Says Former SEC Official – Regulation Bitcoin News

August 30, 2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s former head of Internet enforcement suspects that the SEC’s “secret” filing in the Binance case is a “rare” tactic that could relate to the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation against the crypto exchange. He stressed that the securities regulator’s “seal-seeking filing is unusual, odd, and uncommon,” emphasizing that the…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 29, 2023

August 30, 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. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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The first US offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico was a dud

August 30, 2023
There was only one bid in the first-ever US offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico today – here’s why it was a bit of a washout. The three lease areas off Texas and Louisiana that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) auctioned today have the potential to generate around 3.7 gigawatts (GW) of clean power for almost 1.3 million households – but only one lease area had a single…
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