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Honda and Nissan, two of Japan’s largest carmakers, are reportedly set to begin discussions on a potential merger as they grapple with fierce competition in the fast-evolving electric vehicle (EV) landscape Both companies released near-identical statements confirming that they are exploring ways to deepen collaboration and would update stakeholders in due course. While neither announced merger talks directly, the reports from Japanese media outlet Nikkei suggest a significant strategic shift could be on the horizon. Facing growing pressure from Chinese EV manufacturers and strained profit margins in their own electrification efforts, Honda and Nissan have been forging closer ties in…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. The Cardano price has recently rejected around the $1.1 price level. Notably, the past three months have been highlighted by a remarkable Cardano surge that saw it break above $1 for the first time since early 2022 and peak at $1.3 on December 3, 2024. Although Cardano has managed to hold above the $1 mark since then, price action in the past 24 hours has been highlighted by a 3.77% decline alongside the rest of the crypto market. However, on-chain data shows that the decline has given crypto whales another opportunity to double down…
One of four policy proposals floated by the UK in an AI and creative industry consultation would see AI firms allowed to use copyrighted material without the rights holders’ permission.
tl;dr Merge progress — minor spec updates, engineering full steam ahead 🚂No progress in client diversity. Be selfish, run a minority client! Merge update First of all — fantastic work to all of the engineering teams on the Kintsugi sprint, which culminated in the launch of the Kintsugi Merge testnet. It is incredible to see 3 execution clients and 5 consensus clients for a total of 15 different pairings operating on a unified front. Kintsugi🍵, the first long-standing Merge testnet, was not without excitement. The #TestingTheMerge effort hammered the testnet with transactions, bad blocks, and a number of other chaotic…
Top NFT Collections (Last 24h) Rank Image Name Volume Transactions Chains URL 1 Pudgy Penguins 8,716.38 ETH 269 ethereum View 2 Lil Pudgys 3,752.75 ETH 1018 ethereum View 3 Azuki 1,524.76 ETH 141 ethereum View 4 CryptoPunks 780.05 ETH 17 ethereum View 5 Pudgy Rods 569.10 ETH 281 ethereum View 6 Azuki Elementals 452.20 ETH 347 ethereum View 7 Doodles 297.96 ETH 67 ethereum View 8 Bored Ape Yacht Club 258.43 ETH 14 ethereum View 9 Hedgies 235.48 ETH 25 ethereum View 10 BEANZ Official 229.72 ETH 340 ethereum View The post Top NFT Collections – December 17, 2024 appeared…
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A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI research this week. Keyu Tian, whose LinkedIn and Google Scholar pages list him as a master’s student in computer science at Peking University, is the first author of one of two papers chosen Tuesday for the main Best Paper Award at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, the largest gathering of machine-learning researchers in the world.The paper, titled “Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction,” presents a…
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At an early age, Katie Spivakovsky learned to study the world from different angles. Dinner-table conversations at her family’s home in Menlo Park, California, often leaned toward topics like the Maillard reaction — the chemistry behind food browning — or the fascinating mysteries of prime numbers. Spivakovsky’s parents, one of whom studied physical chemistry and the other statistics, fostered a love of knowledge that crossed disciplines. In high school, Spivakovsky explored it all, from classical literature to computer science. She knew she wanted an undergraduate experience that encouraged her broad interests, a place where every field was within reach. “MIT immediately stood…
CISOs beware: the SEC is watching “The lessons [of this latest ruling] are that the SEC is paying attention to this issue,” Zukis said, “so get your house in order in terms of the new rules.” “The SEC is being very patient with the new rules,” he added. But, he alleged, “there’s an enormous amount of non-compliance to the new rules. Companies are not describing the material impact of an incident in their current filings under the new rules. So get focused on your processes, get your documentation in place and disclose [information in filings] truthfully.” “This isn’t rocket science,”…