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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

A University of Bristol physicist provides the first-ever practical blueprint for creating in the lab a wormhole that verifiably bridges space, as a probe into the inner workings of the universe. It involves creating a new kind of quantum computer, investigation of quantuum physics in a new way and a possible path to some kind ... Read more

University of Chicago, Nevada and Beijing University researchers have made a superconductor with a fairly high transition temperature (30 degrees kelvin) by putting one element Scandium under high pressure. Superconductivity above 30 K achieved in dense scandium. Superconductivity is one of most intriguing quantum phenomena, and the quest for elemental superconductors with high critical temperature ... Read more

First Republic and Other Smaller US banks are trading down about 64% today. It is down 90% from its 12 month peak. Western Alliance Bancorp was down as much as 85% today. PacWest Bancorp was down 60%, hitting a record low. Other regional banks were also down Customers Bancorp Inc., Comerica Inc., Zions Bancorporation, East ... Read more

HSBC Holdings plc announces that its UK ring-fenced subsidiary, HSBC UK Bank plc, is acquiring Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (SVB UK) for £1. As at 10 March 2023, SVB UK had loans of around £5.5bn and deposits of around £6.7bn. For the financial year ending 31 December 2022, SVB UK recorded a profit before ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, 13th March, 2023, Chainwire BinaryX announced today the upcoming release of a space-building simulation game, Project Matthew. The team just released the trailer video which gives a first look at the game, and is also opening registration for their Closed Beta Test happening soon. Introducing Project Matthew: The Exciting New Space-Building Game Project ... Read more

Taipei, Taiwan, 13th March, 2023, Chainwire Bloxmith, the player-first Web3 gaming studio, today announced that the open beta for Raiders Rumble, its unique 1v1 squad battler game for mobile powered by the Flow blockchain, is now available for download on Google Play and Apple App Store. Raiders Rumble challenges players to apply fast-paced strategic decision ... Read more

All Silicon Valley bank deposits are guaranteed 100%. Any losses will be shared and taken from the entire US banking industry. The government is creating a fund at the discount window. A bank can give the Fed $X billion of bonds or mortgages. The fed gives them cash. This ensures that the bank does not ... Read more

University of Rochester researchers claim they have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pressure low enough for practical applications. Ten thousand atmospheres of pressure is still manageable. These pressure are used in chip manufacturing. NOTE: These researchers had issues proving a prior paper. They withheld data until they could get a patent. ... Read more

First Republic Bank (FRC.N) and Western Alliance (WAL.N) said on Friday their liquidity and deposits remained strong, aiming to calm investors worried of a spill-over of risks from troubled startup focused-bank SVB Financial Group. BREAKING UPDATE : The US Government will cover the deposits 100% and funds will be available Monday. Any losses will be ... Read more

Elon Musk is messing with people by teasing some kind of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) purchase. I think Twitter should buy SVB and become a digital bank. — Min-Liang Tan (@minliangtan) March 11, 2023 I’m open to the idea — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2023 The assets of now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank are up ... Read more

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on Friday. It was the 16th largest bank in the USA. SVB gave loans to startups and the terms of the loans required the startup to keep deposits with SVB. Venture Capitalists for decades would require that startups use SVB and other “standard” best practice legal and financial structures. SVB ... Read more

EMERGENCY POD: Jason Calcanis on SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) implosion and what impacted founders should do. FDIC has taken control of SVB. Uninsured depositors will only get IOU which gets money after liquidation. Insured depositors only get covered up to $250,000. A funded startup would usually have over $1 million of funding. It is generally ... Read more

Microsoft Germany employees said that GPT-4 is coming next week: at an approximately one-hour hybrid information event entitled ” AI in Focus – Digital Kickoff ” on 9 March 2023. Four Microsoft Germany employees presented Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT series as a disruptive force for companies and their Azure-OpenAI offering in detail. “We ... Read more

ChatGPT technology has helped Microsoft Bing to cross 100 million Daily Active Users. They remain a small, low, single digit share player versus Google. However, this about double where Bing was at before using OpenAI chat technology. After 30 days, a few stats on new Bing engagement: – 45M total chats – 1/3 of daily ... Read more

Zeta Energy makes lithium sulfur batteries. Zeta Energy was interviewed by car teardown analysis expert, Sandy Munro. Zeta Energy is based in Houston, Texas. Zeta Energy was founded in 2014 to develop and commercialize safe rechargeable batteries that are higher performing, lower cost and sustainably manufactured. Zeta has filed more than thirty patents on its ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, 10th March, 2023, Chainwire Degen Zoo, an NFT game derived from Logan Paul’s abandoned Crypto Zoo, has been single-handedly developed by Christoph Zaknun in 30 days. The DAO Maker founder took on the challenge of building the shelved concept to disprove Paul’s claim that the development cycle would take years. More than 115,000 ... Read more

Silicon Valley Bank shares fell 80% today and in after-hours trading from where they were at the beginning of yesterday. Silicon Valley Bank lost $1.8 billion in the sale of U.S. treasuries and mortgage-backed securities that it had invested in, owing to rising interest rates. Customer deposits including Peter Thiel’s Founder Fund companies pulled deposits ... Read more

Adam Jonas of Morgan Stanley has written that he thinks the Tesla Cybertruck could end up being a “Cult” Car with only 50,000 to 100,000 per year production volumes. This is despite over 1.5 million reserved Cybertrucks. Nextbigfuture has calculated that a Tesla Cybertruck will be able to beat the range of a gas-powered Ford ... Read more

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson delivers the State of NASA address for 2023. Learn about NASA plans to explore the Moon and Mars, monitor and protect the planet, sustain U.S. leadership in aviation and aerospace innovation, drive economic growth and promote equity and diversity within the agency and across the nation, while inspiring the next generation ... Read more

Chuck Cook is well known as being a very thorough tester of Tesla FSD software. He has had four drives with the new single software stack Tesla FSD 11.3.1. He conclusion is that with minor adjustments that it will be ready for wide release in the next dot release which would be FSD 11.3.2. The ... Read more

Spark Capital is leading a $300 million investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. Google invested $400 million in Anthropic. Anthropic is a competitor to OpenAI which makes ChatGPT. Anthropic is now valued at 4.1 billion. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former senior members of OpenAI, principally siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, the latter ... Read more

Today’s launch attempt for #GLHF Terran 1 was scrubbed due to exceeding launch commit criteria limits for propellant thermal conditions on stage 2. The team is working diligently toward their next launch window in the coming days. Today’s launch attempt for #GLHF Terran 1 was scrubbed due to exceeding launch commit criteria limits for propellant ... Read more

Sanctuary AI makes humanoid and they have announced the first technology deployment in a commercial facility with Mark’s and Canadian Tire. Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation (Sanctuary AI), a company on a mission to create the world’s-first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, today announced that it has successfully completed the first ever deployment of a unique ... Read more

Relativity is scheduled for its first launch of Terran 1, called “GLHF” (Good Luck, Have Fun), from Launch Complex 16 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Our launch window opens at 1300ET on March 8, 2023. This launch of Terran 1 is the first orbital attempt by Relativity and will not include a customer payload. Standing 110 ... Read more

Tbilisi, Georgia, 8th March, 2023, Chainwire In celebration of International Women’s Day, Binance Charity, the philanthropic arm of Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure provider, has announced a $100,000 donation to Georgia’s Innovation & Technology Agency (GITA) to support web3 education and training. As a result of the partnership, more than 100 women ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, 8th March, 2023, Chainwire Mizar, a social trading platform that boasts over 10,000 users and sees daily trades in the millions of dollars, is pleased to announce the launch of its $MZR token on March 9th, along with the disclosure of its ambition to introduce automatic and copy trading on both centralized ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, 8th March, 2023, Chainwire GameFi arcade project Metacade has continued to see a phenomenal response to its MCADE token presale, with 5 stages selling out and an impressive $9.3m raised to date. This leaves only two rounds before the presale closes and the hotly anticipated token finally lists on public exchanges. During ... Read more

Lifespan.io reports that researchers have reduced memory and learning symptoms in mice. Alzheimer’s research needs new approaches. A paper describes a promising molecule built using a technique that can be expanded to numerous other proteins with post-translational modifications. The researchers were also able to deliver the rather large molecule intranasally across the blood-brain barrier, alleviating ... Read more

Elon Musk is live at the Morgan Stanley conference providing an update on Twitter. He describing how Twitter has been made better for advertisers and its users. Elon Musk says he will make Twitter into the biggest Financial institution in the world using payments and other financial services by becoming an Everything App. Twitter is ... Read more

Tallinn, Estonia, 7th March, 2023, Chainwire After raising more than $100,000 in under 24 hours from their private sale, leading trading signals provider AltSignals is launching its highly anticipated public ASI token presale today (March 7th, 2023) at 12pm GMT. This follows the exciting announcement of ActualizeAI, a pioneering AI-powered trading tool that will soon ... Read more

Life Architect AI has the Google Sheet script to access OpenAI’s new ChatGPT as gpt-3.5-turbo via API.

The 169 slides from Tesla Investor Day are online. Brad Templeton is an expert on robotaxis and has been advising other companies like Waymo provides a quite positive review of the Investor Day. He has criticism of the Tesla FSD safety numbers as being 3.6 million miles per airbag deployment. The 500,000 miles per ordinary ... Read more

Alphabet’s Waymo , self-driving company, has laid off 8% (209 employees) of its workforce. The layoffs — mostly engineering roles — are part of a broader organizational restructure.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway paid $8.2 billion to acquire Pilot Travel Centers in January. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway quietly acquired $1 billion in January and promises to boost its exposure to the fast-growing electric vehicle industry. Renowned Investor’s Group bought 41.4% of Pilot Travel Centers on January 31 for approximately $8.2 billion. The transaction boosts ... Read more

Many commenters hate Elon Musk and Elon Musk news and coverage. If the technology and change is happening mostly in one area, then that is where the coverage has to happen. I also had quite a few generative AI articles. Generative AI seems to be heading to weak AGI. Weak AGI would mean matching or ... Read more

The critical part of Tesla investor day is that the Teslabot was shown walking and making other Teslabots. However, the actual presentation was long and all of the key points were hidden under a lot of repeated information from other presentations. Tesla needed to come out with the five to 15 minute super-cuts that are ... Read more

Tesla tracks everything and measures everything in real-time. They can not only track errors but they can test and fix in real-time. Their financials are in real-time. They can add new tracking shortly after their next applications engineering team meeting away.

Labuan, Malaysia, 2nd March, 2023, Chainwire Cerus Markets is excited to launch its Mobile Trading App Giveaway! Announcing an upcoming release of its trading platform, Cerus Markets is excited to offer traders an opportunity to be the first to access its Mobile Trading App and take a chance to win a share of $10,000 in ... Read more

Tesla has two new energy products later in 2023 but this is shown on a chart of cumulative energy. On the chart, Tesla goes from 16 gwh of cumulative energy at the end of 2022 to over 35gwh in 2023 ==> 20 GWh of energy installed in 2023.

About 100 minutes into Tesla Investor Day, Tesla showed off a Teslabot walking without cables. They have multiple copies and it was shown assembling part of another Teslabot. Tesla is making all of its actuators and soon all its controllers.

Elon Musk and Drew Baglino is saying that energy storage is the key to Master Plan 3. Nextbigfuture analysis had indicated that Megapack, Semi and Cybertruck were critical and the heart of Master Plan 3. The Electrified economy will use half of the overall power and less mining than the current economy. Elon talks about ... Read more

Julien Villa-Massone has a table with graphics and specifications for the various versions of the Starlink satellite. He has detailed analysis of Starlink and using Starlink to enhance Tesla communications and technology. Julien identified that glass antennas exist and can be used on top of Tesla and other vehicles for mobile communication via Starlink. This ... Read more

Rob Mauer of Tesla Daily is at the Tesla Investor Day and has a video of a new Tesla Cybertruck on display. It is still labeled as a Pre-production Beta. He has a walk around new Tesla Cybertruck Prototype at Investor Day, with first looks at updated design. ➤ Hardware 4 ➤ Steering wheel ➤ ... Read more

Paoli, United States, 1st March, 2023, Chainwire BitCard® has announced a new relationship with Blackhawk Network (BHN), one of the world’s leaders in branded payment technology. Through this groundbreaking commercial relationship, BitCard® will offer its Bitcoin Gift Card at select U.S. retailers in BHN’s vast network of retailers and B2B channels. This relationship marks a ... Read more

Tesla Investor Day will be discussing Master Plan Part 3, which is scaling the materials and construction of batteres to 20 Terawatt hours per year and an overall level of 300 TWh. I have looked at battery materials for and addressing scarcity of materials batteries, magnesium, graphite etc… CATL is scaling non-lithium batteries (CATL M3P ... Read more

Kernel Working on fNIRS Kernel is building the next generation of brain measurement systems by leveraging the strengths of TD-fNIRS into products that offer the following benefits: High-quality neural signal Full-head coverage Scalability Relatively low cost Natural environments, stimuli, and interactions Freedom of user motion Kernal was founded in 2016 by Bryan Johnson. Kernel has ... Read more

Synchron in a brain computer interface company funded with over $75 million with investors including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Synchron is an implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) company. They published results in medical journal JAMA Neurology of long-term safety results from a clinical study in four patients with severe paralysis implanted with Synchron’s first-generation Stentrode™, ... Read more