BBC: The secret sauce for Taiwan’s chip superstardom
A good overview of Taiwan’s semiconductor history.
FinTech Magazine: Mastercard: Ten key use cases for Gen AI in banking
Where Mastercard sees Generative AI being used in Banking.
Interesting Engineering: Two high-speed US rail projects bag $6 billion in government funding
Big investment in the US in high speed rail systems.
NewScientist: Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text
Not very accurate – yet – and the interface is at a very early stage.
Forbes: The Biggest Banking And Financial Services Trends For 2024
Good overview of all the key areas here from Forbes.
Finextra: What the EU’s new crypto asset regulation means and how it will transform 2024
This is overall a good thing to help overcome some people’s reluctance to trade crypto due to a lot of bad news about it.
NewScientist: AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition
This long term has great potential as the flexibility here is tremendous!
CNBC: Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s
The AI chip business is hotting up! A big win for AMD.