“On the path ahead, winds and rain are the norm” for the Chinese economy, president Xi Jinping told his countrymen in a New Year’s Eve speech.
Author: admin (Kendrick Williams)
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Controlling and restricting travel is becoming a more open objective of the green energy transition, also known to readers of these pages as the Degrowth agenda.
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AMAZON BUYS INTO PERPLEXITY AI, AS FOUNDER ADMITS AI SEARCH ENGINES CONTAIN INTERNET POISON PILL
AI powered search engine startup Perplexity AI has gained backing by Amazon’s mega billionaire founder Jeff Bezos.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
The European Union is following in the footsteps of China in the issuance of a digital currency that will monitor and exert control over commercial interactions of citizens there in unprecedented ways.
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ALTERNATIVE BITCOIN INVESTMENT: BITCOIN BACKED SECURITIES
They’re being called Bitcoin Depository Receipts (BDRs). They represent a way for investors to gain exposure to bitcoin, by investing in securities backed by the world’s dominant cryptocurrency.
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WALL STREET TO AI: SHOW ME THE MONEY
Tech companies from start-ups to the Fortune 500 are pouring money into AI, building data centers, investing thousands of hours in creating and training new platforms, and keeping the buzz alive.
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ELLIQ THE AI IS SENIORS’ NEW BUDDY
Older adults are making fast friends with ElliQ, a new Alexa-like tabletop AI created by Israel-based Intuition Robotics to relieve loneliness among seniors.
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NEW YORK TIMES IS LATEST PUBLISHER TO SUE AI DEVELOPERS
On 27 December, The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, alleging the companies infringed the newspaper’s copyrights in using NYT articles to train ChatGPT without credit, compensation, or permission to the paper.
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AI SCORES TWO MORE MEDICAL ADVANCES
Artificial intelligence closed 2023 with two more medical advances to its credit.
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NEW AI CAN PREDICT PEOPLE’S LIFE EVENTS
By analyzing detailed data on people’s health and work lives, an AI developed by an international team based at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been able to predict major life events and even make a pretty accurate guess about whether a person will die within four years, the developers reported in a recent paper in Nature Computational Science.