Silicon Valley Bank failure and its effects on the Startup industry
The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was shut down in March 2023 by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Before that it was the 16th largest bank in the US and has been a crucial part of the startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley, providing critical financial services to growing businesses, particularly in the tech industry.…
ChatGPT: The AI chatbot everyone’s talking about
Last week, Open AI released ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can understand human language and generate human-like answers. In particular, this chatbot can help you write code, compose essays and engage in conversation or even philosophical discussions. Thanks to the easy-to-use interface, it has already been used by over 1 million users. But what is…
The FTX bankruptcy: a closer look at what went wrong
This month, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, filed for bankruptcy, and its former CEO and founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, resigned. This collapse has been a shock to the cryptocurrency industry, and it has happened during a tough year for it. Like a usual cryptocurrency exchange, FTX enabled customers to trade digital currencies for other…
COP27: how growing tensions between developing and wealthy countries are shaping the talks
The issue of financing the fight against climate change monopolized the two-week long COP27, the U.N. climate talks in the seaside resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. They especially focused on how wealthier countries can help less developed ones cut emissions and adapt to the dramatic impacts of global warming. With this aim, U.N. experts…
What are the plans for Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover?
After months of negotiations, Twitter Inc., the American communications company based in San Francisco, California, was recently purchased by Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. It was sold for $44 billion, at a price of $54.20 a share. The billionaire financed the takeover with his own money, along with other investors and a…
What is happening to China’s chip industry?
In October, the US introduced extensive controls on chip exports in an attempt to slow China’s progress in artificial intelligence and supercomputers and make it more difficult for the country to produce advanced semiconductors. The controls are probably the toughest measures taken by President Joe Biden against China and the first serious attempt to slow…
A look at new translation tools – Breaking barriers thanks to AI
Most translation tools commonly used today are focused on written high-resource languages that have lots of translation data available. However, this approach doesn’t allow for the accurate translation of low-resource languages – that is, with little to no data available – and of oral languages, where we cannot find corpora of written text, for example,…
Electric Vehicles – What China’s Leadership Can Teach Europe
As the European Union moves to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, car makers and countries are taking steps to help smooth the transition. While the majority of electric vehicle (EV) markets are still heavily dependent on subsidies and financial incentives from governments, China’s electric cars are now competitive, attractive…
Corporate Venture Capital Strategy – The Entrepreneurial Setting in China
A decade ago, established businesses in several industries were exceedingly frightened of the impending flood of disruptive forces. This was especially true in the FinTech industry, where a new breed of quick-footed, agile arrivals equipped with the Y Combinator playbook threatened to wreck havoc among ancient incumbents everywhere. Several years later, though, and the situation…
AI in Art: What Does It Mean?
Far from being distant, the points of encounter and collaboration between art and artificial intelligence are increasingly numerous. In addition to changing the concept of who can produce art and providing new ways to practice it, artificial intelligence is indeed a new way to approach and study the aesthetic experience, making it even more engaging…
Netflix reports first loss in subscribers in more than a decade
Recently the news of the streaming giant Netflix recording a 200k subscribers’ loss in the first quarter of 2022 hit the public, and it caused a storm of opinions and forecasts for the future of the company. Along with the drop in subscribers, Netflix’s stock fell 35%, revealing the uneasiness of shareholders regarding the halt…
So What About The Metaverse?
Few things have gone as viral lately as the word “metaverse”. The beginning was made by Facebook and its renaming to Meta, with Mark Zuckerberg clearly saying that the future of social media is in the metaverse, while a little later Microsoft followed with its announcements. However, the concept of the metaverse is not new,…
SpaceX: Space Economy Ventures and Interplanetary Spaceflight
The most common Idea has always been that governments and public institution were the only one who could implement explore and improve our knowledge and presence in Space but in the last decade, some other actor have started to take a leading role in the exploration of space and the discovery of new business opportunity…
The impact of drones: Flying to the Future
Drone, the common name for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), has been around for decades since they were initially designed for military use. However, in the last decades, drones became commercially available and gained popularity, due to their manifold applications: agriculture, civil defence, energy, construction, real estate, logistics, media production and security tasks. As drones…
CSR Between Misleading Information And Real Commitment: Some Corporate Cases of Greenwashing and Transparency
Today almost all companies boast internal CSR programs and a greater sensitivity to environmental and social issues. However, the reality of the facts is quite different, despite an undisputed generalized attention to these topics. There are virtuous examples of companies that have sustainability as part of their DNA and that are genuinely concerned about the…
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