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  Tech Company Stops Hiring Humans, CEO Says AI Capable Of All Office Tasks

  Klarna, a leading "buy now, pay later" fintech provider, has halted human hiring and relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to perform tasks once handled by hundreds of employees.

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  Apple Developing an iPad-Like Foldable With No Crease for 2028 Launch: Mark Gurman

  Apple appears to be quietly working on foldable devices in the background, and the iPhone maker seems to be another step closer to launching its lineup of foldables. The Cupertino tech giant is yet to confirm its plans, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has offered an overview of the new product category on the way from Apple. The company is said to be d...

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  Google DeepMind Showcases Upgraded Capabilities in Project Astra With Gemini 2.0

  Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research wing, first unveiled Project Astra at I/O this year. Now, more than six months later, the tech giant announced new capabilities and improvements in the artificial intelligence (AI) agent. Drawing upon Gemini 2.0 AI models, it can now converse in multiple languages, access multiple Google platforms, and h...

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  What Australia Is Doing To Make Big Techs Pay Media Publishers For News

  Australia is planning to come up with new rules to force big tech companies to pay local publishers for news.

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  OpenAI Reportedly Considering Removing ‘AGI Clause’ From the Microsoft Agreement to Gain Investments

  OpenAI is reportedly considering removing a clause from its agreement with Microsoft in a bid to gain more investments from the tech giant. As per the report, the AI firm is discussing whether to remove the artificial general intelligence (AGI) clause, which states that the Redmond-based company will not get access to the ChatGPT maker’s most adv...

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  Xiaomi Tipped to Bring Compatibility With Apple Watch, AirPods and Other Apple Hardware

  At present, Apple Watch’s compatibility is limited to the iPhone and other Apple devices but that could soon change, according to claims on social media by a tipster. Xiaomi is said to be testing the waters for developing software and hardware compatibility with Apple devices, potentially making it the first company to support them outside of the...

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  Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 2 AI Model, Can Generate Playable 3D Worlds to Train AI Agents

  Google DeepMind unveiled the successor to the Genie artificial intelligence (AI) model, which could generate endless 2D game worlds, on Wednesday. Dubbed Genie 2, the new AI model is capable of generating unique action-controllable, playable 3D environments based on a single image prompt. The company said these generated worlds could be played by h...

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  Apple Intelligence in China Will Reportedly Be Backed by Baidu’s Ernie 4.0 AI Model

  Apple Intelligence, the company’s in-house suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features for its devices, will reportedly be provided by Baidu’s AI models in China. The Cupertino-based tech giant has so far not released its new AI features in the European Union countries and China due to regulatory obstacles. While the problem in the EU largel...

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  Google’s AI-Powered Weather Prediction Model GenCast Outperforms Top Forecasting Systems, Says Study

  Google introduced its weather predicting artificial intelligence (AI) model GenCast on Wednesday. The AI model was developed by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s AI research division Google DeepMind. The company’s researchers have also published a paper on the technology highlighting its capabilities in making medium-range weather forecasts....

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  Google Launches AI Image Generation Model Imagen 3 and Video Model Veo

  Google finally launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) image and video generation models on Wednesday. Both of these AI models were unveiled at Google I/O as the tech giant’s latest advancement in generative AI. Now, more than six months later, the Mountain View-based company has introduced it on Vertex AI for its enterprise clients.

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  India Blockchain Week Returns to Bengaluru, Sparks Dialogue on Security Gaps and Self Custody

  On Wednesday, December 4, Web3 venture capital firm Hashed Emergent inaugurated the two-day flagship event of India Blockchain Week in the nation’s tech hub, Bengaluru. The event has drawn leadership teams from prominent crypto, DeFi, and blockchain companies, facilitating direct engagement with India’s highly regarded Web3 developer community.

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  Indian-Origin CEO Defends His Company's 84-Hour Workweek Culture: "It's A Rocket Launch..."

  Daksh Gupta, the CEO of AI startup Greptile, sparked a wave of controversy with a post detailing his company's demanding work culture.

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  Meta Seeks New Nuclear Reactors To Run US Data Centers

  Meta said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence and environment goals, becoming the latest big tech company to take interest in atomic power amid an expected boom in power demand.

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  Generative Artificial Intelligence Had Muted Impact On Global Polls This Year: Meta

  Despite widespread concern that generative AI could interfere with major elections around the globe this year, the technology had limited impact across Meta Platforms' apps, the tech company said on Tuesday.

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  visionOS 2.2 Update for Apple Vision Pro Reportedly Brings New Upgrades to Mac Virtual Display

  Apple Vision Pro, the company’s mixed-reality headset, reportedly received the visionOS 2.2 update recently. The new update fixes several persistent issues in the newest operating system of the Cupertino-based tech giant. Additionally, it added several improvements, especially to the Mac Virtual Display, which lets users mirror the screen of a Ma...