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Oxford commercializes its 20% more powerful solar panels in the US

University of Oxford spin-off Oxford PV has revealed a “world-first” commercial sale of its tandem solar panels that produce 20% more energy than standard silicon panels. The 72-cell panels, comprised of Oxford PV’s proprietary perovskite-on-silicon solar cells, will be used in a utility-scale installation by an undisclosed US customer. The panels – which have a groundbreaking 24.5%…
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I sold all my Tesla shares (TSLA), here's why

I fully divested from Tesla (TSLA), selling all my tesla shares. I’m going to try to explain why. At Electrek, we like to be clear about our biases rather than claim we have none. I’ve followed Tesla shares since 2008 and invested in the company after it went public in…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI2’s new model aims to be open and powerful yet cost effective

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released a new open-source model that hopes to answer the need for a large language model (LLM) that is both a strong performer and cost-effective. The new model, which it calls OLMoE, leverages a sparse mixture of experts (MoE) architecture. It has 7 billion parameters but uses only 1 billion parameters per input token. It has two versions: OLMoE-1B-7B, which is…
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AI Tools: Crafting harmony or creating dependency?

As AI tools become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we face a critical question: Are we harnessing their power to enhance our abilities, or are we slowly outsourcing our minds — or both? As an early adopter of generative AI tools like DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude…
CryptoNews

Moscow Exchange Opts out of Russia's Crypto Trading Program

The Moscow Exchange (MOEX), Russia’s largest securities marketplace, will not participate in an experimental program for cryptocurrency trading, as confirmed by Nikolai Trunichkin, head of digital projects at the exchange. This decision follows the Russian State Duma’s July approval of a legislative package to legalize digital currencies, allowing exchange trading under the oversight of the…
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Meet the new, most powerful open source AI model in the world: HyperWrite’s Reflection 70B

There’s a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B, a new large language model (LLM) based on Meta’s open source Llama 3.1-70B Instruct that leverages a new error self-correction technique and boasts superior performance on third-party benchmarks. As Shumer announced in a post on the social network X, Reflection-70B now…
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