Around 17 million EVs will be sold in 2023, up from 14 million in 2014, IEA says, and one in five new cars will be electric
We have all been guilty of falling under the foundation model spell of the past year-and-a-half, initiated by OpenAI’s unveiling of ChatGPT to the public. But it is not only where large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are concerned that incredible progress has been made in the field of artificial intelligence. And one company has been behind more impressive milestones than most — DeepMind, acquired by Google in 2014 for a reported £400mn to £650mn. Speaking at the TED 40th...
Clean energy added about US$320 billion to the world economy last year, accounting for 10% of global GDP growth in 2023, according to a study from the IEA.
German engineers major Siemens is 'very bullish' on India given its fast-growing economy and 'huge potential', its global CEO Roland Busch said on Monday.“We strongly believe that India is really taking off,” Busch said. “The last years have shown that the growth rates are amazing. You’re attracting more and more high-quality products, more complex products are manufactured in India.”Busch added that the Indian government is ‘doing the right things’ and improving infrastructure in areas like...
Oracle chairman Larry Ellison made the surprise announcement Tuesday that
OTTAWA - A global treaty to end plastic waste will not be ambitious enough if it does not include some limits on plastic production, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Tuesday as the fourth round of negotiations kicked off in Ottawa. The scientific evidence shows that reducing the amount of plastic that's produced is the only way to keep it out of the environment, not to mention what the world eats, drinks and breathes, environmental groups say. One of them, Greenpeace, wants the...
Despite the asset's difficulty within the current market, Ripple Labs CEO
Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin praises WWE business. WWE struck long-term deal with Fanatics in April 2023 to expand their partnership, which began in 2022. The expanded partnership saw Fanatics assume operations of WWE’s global event merchandise business. Speaking at the Sports Business Journal conference, Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin was asked about the biggest growth sport for them. "The biggest growth sport in my mind? Well, are we looking at percents, dollars? What's wild, I'll tell you...
“This is coming sooner than you think,” said Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Rick Needham, who spoke alongside Type One CEO Chris Mowry at the BNEF Summit in New York last week.
A group of economists said Thursday that the proposed measure that aims to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution would give way to legislations that respond to the current "global realities."In a statement, the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) emphasized that (Resolution of Both Houses) RBH7 and its counterpart RBH6 in the Senate "will provide certainty to the country’s economic policy direction."This, as the group pointed out that the supposed uncertainty in the country's...
Orlando Bloom is getting candid about his relationship with Katy Perry. During an interview on Trevor Noah's podcast What Now?, Bloom was asked about the couple's pursuit of a seemingly "normal" life despite their supersized Hollywood career. "I think one of the things that I fell in love with Katy was She hates when I say this, so I have to word it carefully, but her music was everywhere, right?" Bloom said. "When I came up it was just on every radio station, but I wasn't...
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company will "look at" manufacturing in Indonesia, following a meeting with the country's President Joko Widodo.