Coinbase International has announced its support for pre-launch markets, a platform that allows traders to trade perpetual futures contracts for tokens that are yet to launch. This feature offers traders the opportunity to participate in price discovery of upcoming projects within a secure environment. Pre-launch markets also carry unique considerations and elevated risks, including lower…
Tanzania plans to amend its Income Tax Act to tax crypto trades. The proposal includes a three per cent withholding tax on income from digital asset transactions. Digital platform owners or facilitators of digital asset transfers will act as withholding agents. Foreign…
Bitfinex, a leading digital asset trading platform, has announced the listing of a new USD-denominated Tethered Asset, AUSDT, by Alloy by Tether. This innovative offering tethers its value to Tether Gold, backed by physical gold, introducing a new level of stability and…
Today, Zeta Labs, a London-based startup founded by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, announced the launch of Jace, an LLM-powered AI agent that can execute in-browser actions on command.
The company also announced it has raised $2.9 million in a pre-seed round of funding, led by Y Combinator’s former head of AI Daniel Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
While…
Innovation in machine learning and AI training continues to accelerate, even as more complex generative AI workloads come online.
Today MLCommons released the MLPerf 4.0 training benchmark, once again showing record levels of performance. The MLPerf training benchmark is a…
AI and the future of storytelling | Inworld AI
June 14, 2024
Kylan Gibbs, CEO and cofounder of Inworld AI, gave a talk recently at the TED 2024 conference. In the talk, he delivered is vision for the future of AI and storytelling in games.With the kinds of AI agents that Inworld enables, audiences can now step beyond the script…
Defense spending bill would defund Biden’s Gaza pier
June 14, 2024
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced its fiscal 2025 defense spending bill while adding a provision that would eliminate the military’s makeshift pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip, which has struggled to deliver an adequate level of humanitarian aid to Palestinians facing famine-like conditions.
The committee voted 34-25 along party lines to send the $833 billion bill to…
Ørsted got a huge Tesla battery storage system for the world's single largest offshore wind farm
June 14, 2024
Ørsted just bought a 300 MW Tesla battery energy storage system for the UK’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm.
The Tesla Megapack battery storage system will be installed on the site of Ørsted’s onshore converter station for Hornsea 3, in Swardeston, near Norwich, in…
Tesla tweeted news that it has two autonomous Optimus robots working at its factory, BYD announces a new, RWD hot hatch, EV sales are building towards future growth, and there’s a new, internationally recognized electric karting championship coming to the US. All this and…
As the race heats up to introduce more affordable electric cars, Ford is bringing on some of the best EV engineers to help it compete. Over the past few months, Ford has hired talent from Tesla, Rivian, Apple, and Lucid to help accelerate the development of affordable EVs.
A bet on affordability
Ford CEO Jim Farley revealed in February that the company made a bet to develop an affordable EV…
