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Crypto optimism in the age of the doomer

January 4, 2024

In the wake of centralized “crypto-in-name-only” financial collapses, 2023 bore out a recommitment to advancing sustainable decentralized networks.

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2024 Buy or Hold Chemical Stocks?

January 4, 2024
The chemical industry stands on the cusp of substantial growth, driven by robust demand across vital sectors. Therefore, let’s assess the prospects of chemical stocks Dow Inc. (DOW), Linde plc…

AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $70M

January 4, 2024

As search engine incumbents — namely Google — amp up their platforms with gen AI tech, startups are looking to reinvent AI-powered search from the ground up. It might seem like a Sisyphean task, going up against competitors with billions upon billions of users. But this new breed of search upstarts believes it can carve […]

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3 Foreign Bank Stocks Primed for Untapped Growth in 2024

January 4, 2024
The banking industry displayed admirable resilience and stability in 2023. Amid the banks’ efforts to streamline their structures, honing in on core operations – there are projections of higher costs…

Microsoft wants to add a Copilot key to your PC keyboard

January 4, 2024

Microsoft would like 2024 to be the “year of the AI PC” and to put a point on that, the company today announced a new key for Copilot — that is, a physical key that will soon make its way to your keyboard and join the Windows key, together with its friends the Control key, […]

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Superpedestrian to auction 20,000 e-scooters after shutting down

January 4, 2024

More than 20,000 electric scooters belonging to Superpedestrian will be auctioned off later this month, along with other equipment from the startup’s U.S. operations, after closing its doors December 31. Two “global online auction” listings have appeared on the website of Silicon Valley Disposition, an online market for “surplus assets,” which will feature scooters and […]

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Intel spins out a new enterprise-focused gen AI software company

January 4, 2024

Intel, intent on making bigger moves in the market for AI-powered enterprise software, is spinning out a new platform company with the backing of Boca Raton, Florida-based asset manager and investor DigitalBridge. Called Articul8 AI (an awkward abbreviation of “Articulate AI”), the new entity builds off a proof-of-concept from an Intel collaboration with Boston Consulting […]

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Satellite imagery analysis shows immense scale of dark fishing industry

January 3, 2024

Satellite imagery and machine learning offer a new, far more detailed look at the maritime industry, specifically the number and activities of fishing and transport ships at sea. Turns out there are way more of them than publicly available data would suggest, a fact that policymakers should heed. As a shared global resource, the oceans […]

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