How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

The leading Chinese electric vehicle company, with origins as a battery maker, has posted two years of million-car growth in sales.

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Otter brings GenAI to your meetings with AI summaries, AI chat and more

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

Otter, the AI-powered meeting assistant that transcribes audio in real-time is adding another layer of AI to its product with today’s introduction of Meeting GenAI, a new set of AI tools for meetings. Included with GenAI is an AI chatbot you can query to get information about past meetings you’ve recorded with Otter, an AI […]
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Nvidia’s new tool lets you run GenAI models on a PC

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

Nvidia, ever keen to incentivize purchases of its latest GPUs, is releasing a tool that lets owners of GeForce RTX 30 Series and 40 Series cards run an AI-powered chatbot offline on a Windows PC. Called Chat with RTX, the tool allows users to customize a GenAI model along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT by […]
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Shopify shares down after company reports light guidance

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

Shopify’s quarterly results topped estimates, but guidance for the current period was light.

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Memorizer is a movie and book tracking app that also helps you find inspiration

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

There are quite a few apps that let you log the movies, TV shows and books that you have watched and read. Some of them are indie apps that take advantage of various online databases. Some of them, like Letterboxd, Goodreads and Trakt, are full-fledge services with large communities of users. Memorizer starts with that […]
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YC-backed Cambio puts AI bots on the phone to negotiate debt, talk to a bank’s customers

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

A Y Combinator-backed startup called Cambio is bringing AI to the banking world in a surprising way: it’s putting AI bots on the phone with companies and consumers. The startup began by offering an AI-powered service that negotiated debt collections on behalf of consumers, which helped around 70% of customers resolve their collections and raise […]
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Climate Finance Is Targeting the Wrong Industries

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

Roughly half of the world’s emissions currently can’t be reduced, yet green investment continues to avoid the sectors that need the most help—manufacturing, agriculture, and the built environment.

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The way AI will be sold to a skeptical public is starting to become clear

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

AI was a prominent theme in Super Bowl advertising, with companies from Microsoft to Google pitching artificial intelligence to the public.

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Apple and Microsoft clinch key win as iMessage, Bing exempted from tough EU competition rules

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

Apple’s iMessage and Microsoft’s Bing and Edge browsers should not be listed as “gatekeepers” under the EU Digital Markets Act, the European Commission said.

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NIST Establishes AI Safety Consortium

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Techme101

The mixed public and private consortium will focus on safety, standards and skills-building for AI generally and generative AI in particular.

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