Teresa Ribera, formerly Spain’s deputy prime minister, has been named the European Union’s “competitiveness minister,” putting her in charge of pumping up mergers and acquisitions, while also pushing the region’s green transition and overall economic competitiveness.
It likely won’t change the speed at which governments and Big Agriculture are mainlining gene edited foods into world consumption, but eco activists took a symbolic stand against the tide in Italy last week.
All that HODL’ing (Holding On for Dear Life) has certainly shown itself to be a tried-and-true bitcoin strategy, given a long enough stretch of time.
A new study by researchers at several Irish universities including University College, Dublin substantiates Bitcoin’s use as a hedge against high inflation.
The world’s giant tech companies are pressing the European Commission (EC) to lighten the strictures and mandates the pending AI Act would place on developers and to scale back the schedule of fines, which could cost violators billions of euros.
From chemtrails to QAnon, the U.S. public discussion has a strong undercurrent of conspiracy theories.
OpenAI, the company that launched the AI revolution by introducing ChatGPT, is shopping for more funding.
Blackrock, the world’s richest private equity firm, and Microsoft are part of a group that has created an investment fund to build data centers and energy supplies to meet AI’s exploding infrastructure needs.
More than 70 percent of the 2,000 respondents in a British OnePoll survey want stricter laws controlling AI, specifically to slow down the breakneck pace of advances.
There are millions of genetic mutations whose effects are unknown. Some might have therapeutic benefits. Weeding through them all to find out which ones have value could take millions of hours of lab work.