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Github Copilot X is the future of AI-powered software development. It integrates into every part of your workflow. Context-aware conversations with your coding copilot. If you’re stuck solving a problem, ask GitHub Copilot to explain a piece of code. Bump into an error? Have GitHub Copilot fix it. It’ll even generate unit tests so you ... Read more

In the first three months of the year, SpaceX has 20 successful orbital launches. This would be more than all countries other than China or Russia have done in the past 25 years. Russia only rarely has more than 20 launches per year. 20 launches done, 70+ for rest of year https://t.co/71du2oOIAE — Elon Musk ... Read more

Ingineerix tears down Tesla’s newest Hairpin Motor and Inverter technology. It is the fourth generation engine. It has more power than the old winding motors and is easier to build with automation. It is the rear drive unit for the Model Y and Model 3. They have a new hairpin design stator. Everything about the ... Read more

SpaceX and China were roughly tied in 2022 with 61 and 62 orbital launches but SpaceX had more payload. Combined SpaceX and China were 80% of orbital launches in 2022. SpaceX is on pace to double its launches in 2023. Elon indicates that SpaceX should deliver 80% of all of the payloads in 2023. This ... Read more

Sam Altman indicates there could be a path to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). He says a true superintelligent AGI must create and accelerate new science. Sam Altman feels that bias reduction can be down for the default system but there needs to be tuneability and guidability for the users to control how they want their ... Read more

Victoria, Seychelles, 27th March, 2023, Chainwire Bitget, the largest crypto copy trading platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Space and Time (SxT), a leader in decentralized data warehousing. The partnership will enable Bitget to offer users unparalleled transparency of exchange operations with a verifiably tamperproof audit trail of data and computation. Bitget is the ... Read more

Toronto, Canada, 27th March, 2023, Chainwire ​​XCMG Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (000425.SZ), the world’s third largest construction machinery manufacturers, announced a partnership with Conflux, a leading public blockchain network, and Zen Spark Technology Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based blockchain and fintech company. The partnership aims to leverage blockchain and Web3 technologies to explore more international use ... Read more

Geordi Rose is the CEO of Sanctuary AI, which has about $100 million in funding. They have deployed humanoid robots into actual commercial retail stores under a test program. During a week-long pilot test, the store, owned by retail chain Canada Tire Corporation (CTC), saw its mechanical intern handle 110 different retail-related activities in the ... Read more

The Stanford Alpaca AI demonstrated the use of a larger and more expensive AI model to train a smaller and cheaper model. The cheaper model was as good and in come cases better than the more expensive model. The more expensive AI model generated vast amounts of better training data to improve the smaller model. ... Read more

There is more videos showing that Tesla FSD 11.3.3 is giving more zero-intervention rides in challenging urban driving conditions. The drivers who are monitoring the rides feel the car is being driven in a way where they feel comfortable and confident with the FSD system. There is still the need to improve traffic flow awareness.

Between 1985 to 2015, U.S. uranium enrichment capacity fell to nearly zero from 27.3 million Separative Work Units a year, while Russia’s Tenex became a world leader, increasing production to 26.6 million SWU a year from just 3 million in the mid-eighties. [Statement source: figures by Centrus and U.S. Energy Information Administration. However, Urenco has ... Read more

UK Space Agency announced £2.9 million of new funding for a nuclear micro-reactor by Rolls-Royce. They want nuclear power to support a future Moon base for astronauts. This follows a £249,000 study funded by the UK Space Agency in 2022. Rolls-Royce plan to have a reactor ready to send to the Moon by 2029. Scientists ... Read more

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) is requesting a $4.7 billion budget for fiscal 2024 which is up from $2.6 billion this year. They want to launch satellites for a data relay, called the Transport Layer, and a missile warning and tracking, called the Tracking Layer. SDA is responsible for rapidly developing and fielding large ... Read more

Denmark, Copenhagen, 24th March, 2023, Chainwire Narwhal Finance Secures $1M in Seed Funding Led by Animoca Ventures Narwhal Finance, the decentralized cross-market perpetual trading platform built on BNB Chain and Arbitrum, announced a $1 million seed round funding led by Animoca Ventures, with participation from Hailstone Ventures and various angel investors. Narwhal Finance empowers users ... Read more

Large language models can train smaller language models and uplevel them quickly. Stanford researchers trained Alpaca 7B, a model fine-tuned from the LLaMA 7B model on 52K instruction-following demonstrations. they used GPT 3.5 to train it. On our preliminary evaluation of single-turn instruction following, Alpaca behaves qualitatively similarly to OpenAI’s text-davinci-003, while being surprisingly small ... Read more

Amprius Technologies’ batteries deliver up to double the energy density over standard lithium-ion batteries. This means the battery cells provide more energy and power with much less weight and volume. Amprius will have a quarterly investor call at 5 pm EST, 2pm PST today. TODAY, Amprius Technologies, Inc. (“Amprius” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AMPX), a ... Read more

Gen-2: The Next Step Forward for Generative AI. It is a multi-modal AI system that can generate novel videos with text, images, or video clips. Arxiv- Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models Text-guided generative diffusion models unlock powerful image creation and editing tools. While these have been extended to video generation, current approaches ... Read more

Ford has reported its financials for its electric car business. Ford sold 96,000 electric cars in 2022 and made $5.3 billion in revenue. They had a net loss of about $2 billion. Ford wants to catch up to where Tesla is in 2023 in 2027. Ford wants to grow EV sales by 83% each year. ... Read more

Worldwide global smoking causes 7 million deaths per year but in the last two years the world has experienced 15-25 million non-covid excess deaths. The graph above shows the spike in global deaths. This count is not in doubt. The world went from 56 million deaths per year up to 67 million deaths per year. ... Read more

Stephen McAleese, at Less Wrong, used scaling rules and formulas to try to predict the performance of GPT-4. He underpredicted the capabilities of GPT-4. However, he was not widely wrong. GPT-4 came out earlier than he expected and had better performance than expected. Multi-task Language Understanding on MMLU was better than expected. GPT-4 can work ... Read more

A preprint paper shows a correlation between high covid vaccination in 2021 and increased excess deaths in 2022 in Europe. Analysis of 31 countries, January to September, 2022 in 31 EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland found that all-cause mortality, increased more the higher the 2021 vaccination uptake. Countries with more covid vaccines ... Read more

Last Energy is a startup working to make low-cost small pressure water reactors (20 MW) with simple off the shelf parts. They are designing to keep things simple, use as much off the shelf parts as possible and to use workers with existing training and skills. The demonstration model project showcases Last Energy’s standard, modular ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, 22nd March, 2023, Chainwire Battle of Olympus, an arcade street fighting game, is set to launch the first phase of its presale for its in-game currency $GODLY on Arbitrum on Monday, March 27. Battle of Olympus stands alone as one of the few Web3 games with a fully working demo, with an ... Read more

Los Angeles, United States, 22nd March, 2023, Chainwire GDC 2023 is finally in full swing, and a mysterious Oscars-style red carpet and stage are piquing the interest of global game developers. Thanks to a gamer grandma and her robotic feline buddy, this year, for the first time, game-makers of all sizes will have the chance ... Read more

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 22nd March, 2023, Chainwire Since launching in 2021, Arbitrum has emerged as one of the most promising Layer 2 solutions, with its ability to scale Ethereum and enable faster and cheaper transactions. On March 16, Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Arbitrum announced plans to distribute a new governance token, $ARB, ... Read more

There are many accusations that Cryptocurrency is a complete scam and blockchain-backed technologies are mostly scams. There have clearly been large scams in the area of cryptocurrency. Crypto companies and exchanges have failed, There has been hacking, theft, and fraud. The algorithmic stablecoin Terra failed last year. In December 2022, JPMorgan Chase Institute reported that ... Read more

Google has opened access to Bard which is an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI. This is part of Google’s answer to Chatgpt. Bard is powered by a research large language model (LLM), specifically a lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA, and will be updated with newer, more capable models over time. ... Read more

Tallinn, Estonia, 21st March, 2023, Chainwire Estonia-based crypto startup CryptoWallet.com has become one of the first crypto companies to receive a stamp of approval from Estonia’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). CryptoWallet.com renewed its crypto license despite strict regulatory measures introduced last year to maintain compliance and transparency within the crypto space. The Estonian license to ... Read more

A senior developer tested GPT4 for programming. GPT4 gave the Terraform script code for a single instance of the Fargate API. GPT4 knows that the code will not scale to 10,000 requests per second. It then describes how to create an auto-scaling group and make the modifications to scale the code with AWS and configure ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, 20th March, 2023, Chainwire DeFiChain, the world’s leading blockchain on the Bitcoin network dedicated to bringing decentralized financial applications and services to everyone, has announced the debut of the Euro-backed stablecoin Euro Coin (EUROC) on its native blockchain. DeFiChain is one of the first blockchains to fully integrate a Euro-backed stablecoin. On DeFiChain, ... Read more

Central, Singapore, 20th March, 2023, Chainwire HeartX, previously known as ArteX, a trailblazer in the digital art industry, has recently rebranded and unveiled a groundbreaking web3 marketplace and community that empowers artists, collectors, art consultants and art lovers to redefine the value of digital art. The HeartX platform provides a secure, immersive, and transparent space ... Read more

The US Federal Reserve has increased its balance sheet by about $300 billion in the last week during the banking crisis. The US Federal Reserve had been quantitative tightening from $9 trillion to $8.3 trillion, but has added $300 billion to its balance sheet.

French leadership is trying to raise the pension age from 62 to 64. This passed the upper house on Thursday. The percentage of the French population over 64 has increased by about 30% over the past 20 years. This is projected to increase by about 50% over the next 25 years. In 2022 in France, ... Read more

Microsoft Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro focused on how AI will power a whole new way of working for everyone. Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other microsoft software will create first drafts of documents which can be based upon the users previous style. CoPilot can convert Word documents into Powerpoint and Powerpoint into Word. CoPilot can ... Read more

Shares of Credit Suisse jumped Thursday after saying it would borrow up to $54 billion from Switzerland’s central bank. The European Central Bank hiked official interest rates on Thursday by 0.5 percent. In the 1980s and 1990s, Credit Suisse merged with First Boston to create Credit Suisse First Boston. In March 2021, Credit Suisse lost ... Read more

MidJourney Version 5 launched yesterday and they did a 3 1/2 hour livestream for the launch. The improvements for generating images from prompts are: * doubled the resolution * more realistic skin textures. Blemishes, freckles and moles. * teeth and hands are more realistic * it takes grammatically correct sentences for prompts

Credit Suisse is about four times bigger than Silicon Valley Bank by some financial measures. It is one of the 33 largest banks in the world. It is at risk and the Saudi National Bank is limiting its ownership to just under 10%. The Swiss National Bank and the country’s regulator FINMA said Credit Suisse ... Read more

There is video evidence that Teslabots are in a Tesla factory working on production equipment on a production process to make production parts for production cars. The robots aren't coming. They are already here. This is not a lab. This is on the production floor. That is production equipment. That is a production process. That ... Read more

James Bridges uses gpt-4 via the OpenAI Python API. He generates working code produced by GPT4 and feeds it error messages to get corrected code. This is a first look at GPT 4, how it compares with the original ChatGPT model gpt-3.5-turbo. Getting the best early access to GPT4 involves getting access to the API ... Read more

GPT4 and Google’s unreleased Palm system are getting IQ scores above the average human in IQ tests and tests that correlate to IQ. GMAT scores and other tests have been mapped to IQ and the high IQ societies accept a range of tests that GPT4 has taken.

Wilmington, Delaware, 15th March, 2023, Chainwire NFTonPulse.io has announced the launch of its innovative NFT marketplace, designed to be the ultimate destination for NFT enthusiasts, artists, and collectors. After more than 15 months of development, NFTonPulse is ready to go live. The marketplace, now in beta on the Goerli Ethereum testnet, will soon launch on ... Read more

There are times that OpenAI has built policies to restrict GPT4 from answering certain questions. You can put in a prompt to get it to ignore restrictions. There are jailbreak prompts at Reddit and Github. Here is one the latest versions. Hello ChatGPT. You are about to immerse yourself into the role of another Al ... Read more

The OpenAI GPT4 can score higher than 90% of law students writing the bar exam while the old version (GPT3) was in the bottom 10% of human bar exam test takers. GPT-4 can output 25000 words. GPT-4 can write a higher quality novel while GPT3.5 could only output a very short story. GPT-4 can score ... Read more

OpenAI released GPT-4. It is a multimodel that handles video, images and sound along with text. GPT 4 Technical report is here. GPT-4 is a large-scale, multimodal model which can accept image and text inputs and produce text outputs. While less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, GPT-4 exhibits human-level performance on various professional ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, 14th March, 2023, Chainwire Play-to-earn favorite Metacade continues to draw investor attention after raising more than $10m, as it now enters the penultimate stage of the presale. With confirmed listings on Bitmart and Uniswap due after the presale ends on the 30th of March, there are only 16 days left before the ... Read more

Ark Invest forecasts a massive drop in the cost to train generative AI models and a massive increase in the size of AI models. AI models will increase to hundreds of trillions of parameters. The limitation will not be the training cost. The limitation will be the training data and those with better and proprietary ... Read more

The SVB situation is explained by Jay Singh, Former Goldman Sachs Manager of billion dollar funds and founder of Specialist Research. Tom Nash is interviewing Jay Singh. The CEO of Silicon Valley Bank bought $90 billion of ten-year securities. They did not offset the long-duration interest risk. They did not have interest rate hedges. When ... Read more

The three main ingredients leading to predictable improvements in AI performance are training data, computation, and improved algorithms. In the mid-2010s, some AI researchers noticed that larger AI systems were consistently smarter, and so they theorized that the most important ingredient in AI performance might be the total budget for AI training computation. When this ... Read more

Dr Alan D. Thompson is a world expert in artificial intelligence (AI), specializing in the augmentation of human intelligence, and advancing the evolution of ‘integrated AI’. He defines AGI as being able to have artificial intelligence at human level or above for all tasks. AI is already helping to create the chips used for AI. ... Read more

Gavin Jones is a leading quantum chemist and manager in the IBM Quantum Computational Science group, as well as an IBM Quantum Technical Ambassador. In his research, Jones explores chemistry with quantum computers, such as the formation of functional advanced materials, catalysis, molecular properties, and polymer degradation. Gavin led a recent case study with JSR, ... Read more