Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic
[Investing]
2023/02/06 09:07
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has invested almost $400 million in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, which is testing a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the deal.Google and Anthropic declined to comment on the investment, but separately announced a partnership in which Anthropic will use Google’s cloud computing services. The deal marks the latest alliance betw...
Jony Ive Gives Red Nose Day Nose A "Dramatic" Flat-pack Redesign
[Design]
2023/02/06 09:06
Former Apple designer Jony Ive has reimagined one of the world's most recognisable fundraising products – the nose worn as part of the annual Red Nose Day appeal.Created by Ive and his design studio LoveFrom for the UK charity Comic Relief, the revamped red nose consists of a honeycomb sphere made from paper, which folds down into a flat crescent shape.Comic Relief describes the redesign as "t...
(PDF) Mckinsey - E-Commerce is Entering a New Phase in Southeast Asia
[Business]
2023/02/06 09:05
Changing consumer and merchant habits are creating opportunities for logistics companies—if they can cater to new needs and meet more exacting standards.While growth of Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market has accelerated since the mid-2010s, the COVID-19 pandemic has propelled it into an new phase. From 2016 to 2021, the total value of e-commerce sales grew fivefold, or 40 percent, annually. A...
Turbine-Shaped Skyscraper Concept Rotates With the Wind
[Design]
2023/02/06 09:04
The building could generate electrical energy thanks to its rotation.As engineering reaches unimaginable heights of knowledge and expertise, the depictions of the future that seem out of sci-fi movies seem to be more feasible than ever. In such a project, the Dubai skyline could get a futuristic taste of its own thanks to Turkish architect Hayri Atak’s skyscraper concept which is designed to p...
EV Battery Maker ONE Raises $300M, Now Valued at $1.2 Billion
[Investing]
2023/02/06 09:04
Michigan-based battery startup Our Next Energy (ONE) said it closed a $300 million Series B funding round that takes the three-year-old company’s valuation to $1.2 billion.The latest round, led by investors Franklin Templeton and Fifth Wall, makes Our Next Energy one of the most valuable privately held battery companies in the United States.ONE is delivering prototype versions of its Aries I b...
(Infographic) Visualizing the Changing World Population, by Country
[Consumer]
2023/02/06 09:03
On average, there are 250 babies born every minute around the world. This adds up to over 130 million new human beings entering the world every year.Then it’s no surprise that the world’s population, which now stands at a whopping 8 billion, has more than tripled since the mid-20th century.This graphic by Truman Du uses December 2022 population data from the UN and summaries from the French I...
(PDF) Capgemini - What Matters to Today's Consumer 2023
[Consumer]
2023/02/03 09:10
2023 consumer behavior tracker for the consumer products and retail industries.In last year’s first edition of our annual research series, What matters to today’s consumer, we found that consumer sentiment and expectations had shifted dramatically over the preceding 18 months. In this year’s edition, we see many of the same trends persisting – for example, consumers still want sustainable p...
(Patent) Apple's Future Foldable Devices will be Provided with Crack Resistant Display Cover Layers
[Tech]
2023/02/03 09:09
Apple was granted a patent for a multi-layered flip phone. On Thursday, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that related to a unique protective crack-resistant cover layer structure for future foldable devices such as an iPhone (flip phone), iPad (hybrid laptop), Macs and TV.Apple's invention is focused on correcting display cracking issues found on so...
The State of Generative AI
[Business]
2023/02/03 09:08
We break down the generative AI landscape across funding trends, top-valued startups, most active VCs, and more.The buzz around generative AI — which refers to AI technologies that generate entirely new content, from lines of code to images to human-like speech — has reached a fever pitch.The tech news cycle has been dominated by applications like ChatGPT, a chatbot that tallied up 1M users i...
OpenAI Releases Tool to Detect AI-Generated Text, Including from ChatGPT
[Tech]
2023/02/03 09:07
OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E and ChatGPT, has released a free tool that it says is meant to “distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs.” It warns the classifier is “not fully reliable” in a press release and “should not be used as a primary decision-making tool.” According to OpenAI, it can be useful in trying to determine whether someone is trying to pass o...
Japanese Manhole Covers are Works of Art. Here’s How They’re Made
[Design]
2023/02/03 09:06
A new documentary sheds light on the fascinating manufacturing process behind Japanese manhole covers, which are cast in sand and painted by hand.Let’s talk about manhole covers. Every city in the world has them, yet no one ever pays attention to the ugly, stinking, rusty metal plates, unless they’re comically misaligned with road markings—or they get blown off by a sewer geyser.These metal...
Burgernomics : The Economist's Big Mac Index is Back
[Investing]
2023/02/03 09:05
The Economist has published its bi-annual update of one of our favorite pieces of data analysis: the Big Mac Index.Apart from telling you how much a McDonalds burger will cost on your winter vacation, it’s also a lighthearted test of the economic theory of purchasing power parity (PPP) — the idea that exchange rates should settle at a place where identical goods and services cost the same in...
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