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Cowboy, Vanmoof, Rad Power Bikes, Angell, Sushi Bikes and many more e-bikes have now gone bankrupt or were sold for scraps. The e-bike winter is here. What went wrong? Is a turnaround possible?

Bangalore, or Bengaluru is the Silicon Valley of India. It is the startup capital, full of tech companies. I visited a few of them like Ultraviolette and Even Hospitals, I rode every metro and bus, tried every app, etc.

Visa & MasterCard dominate digital payments. But every major economy is ditching them. The EU with WERO and EPI, India with UPI, Brazil with Pix, the UK with DeliveryCo, etc.

Electric container ships like the Ningyuan Diankun, ferries like the Candela P12, yachts like the Silent Yachts 62, etc. are finally starting to make electric and solar powered shipping a reality, but many challenges remain.

Intel is back. Their fabs finally have customers, and big ones. Apple, SpaceX, Tesla, Nvidia and the Trump have all bet on the company. I think this proves that the old CEO, Pat Gelsinger was right in doubling down on manufacturing.

When the war started, Ukraine was critically reliant on weapons imports. But through years of hard work and innovation, it became a weapons exporter now, too, with almost 20 countries relying on them, from the Gulf states to Europe and the US.

A new study from Sensortower gives us 70 pages full of charts and data about the adoption of AI, along with monetization, growth, demographics, etc. Along with the leaked financials of OpenAI and Anthropic, we can start assessing how AI is doing. IS it a bubble? Will it pop?