Microsoft marks its 50th anniversary this year, celebrating a legacy of innovation in the tech world. Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, the company revolutionized personal computing with its MS-DOS operating system and Office software. Today, Microsoft is focused on becoming a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), with cloud computing and Office […]
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Elon Musk’s fortune takes $111 billion hit, still world’s richest person
Elon Musk’s fortune has dropped by a staggering $111 billion, yet he remains the world’s richest person. Despite a sharp decline in Tesla’s stock price, Musk continues to surpass Bill Gates’ entire net worth. His current wealth stands at $353.2 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time estimates. Tesla’s stock has plummeted over 40% from its peak, […]
Google launches AI-powered advertiser features in push for automation
Alphabet’s Google said on Wednesday it is launching two new artificial intelligence-powered features for advertisers that will automatically find the best ad placements for brands across the tech company’s services. AI has dominated the tech industry in recent months as Google and other companies have developed novel chatbots that can respond to users in open-ended […]
EU’s Breton to discuss AI rules with OpenAI CEO in June
BRUSSELS: EU industry chief Thierry Breton will meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco next month to discuss how the company will implement the bloc’s world-leading rules on artificial intelligence (AI), EU officials said on Tuesday. Breton will also discuss an AI pact with Altman with the goal of getting OpenAI to join a […]
AI means everyone can now be a programmer, Nvidia chief says
Artificial intelligence means everyone can now be a computer programmer as all they need to do is speak to the computer, Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday, hailing the end of the “digital divide”. Nvidia has surged to become the world’s most valuable listed semiconductor company as a major supplier of chips and computing […]
Google plans to upgrade search with AI chat, video clips
Google is planning to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents. The move comes as artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as ChatGPT are rapidly gaining in popularity, highlighting a technology that could upend the way […]
Cryptoverse: Investors pick their AI race horses
April 25 (Reuters) – What do you get when you cross cryptocurrencies with artificial intelligence? A seemingly sentient bitcoin that codes itself in the style of Japanese haikus? Alas not, though you do get billions of dollars of trading in a new class of crypto tokens. The machine mania sweeping the tech world amid the […]
An artificial intelligence-obsessed photographer who tricked Instagram
PARIS: Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography. But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence programme Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. “Soon after starting with Midjourney, […]
US Supreme Court asked to decide if AI can be a patent ‘inventor’
A computer scientist who has waged a global campaign for patents covering inventions conceived by his artificial intelligence system asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to hear his case. Stephen Thaler petitioned the high court to review an appeals court’s decision that patents can only be issued to human inventors and that his AI system cannot be […]
Elon Musk recruits team to develop OpenAI’s ChatGPT rival
Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the effort. Tesla and Twitter chief Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit, the report said. The […]