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Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins
Microsoft reached a deal with News Corp.’s HarperCollins that will allow the software company to use nonfiction titles from the book publisher to train its Artificial Intelligence models, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company isn’t planning to use the content to generate new books without human authors, the person said.
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Taliban Removes 'Un-Islamic' Books, Anti-Government Literature
Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles -- Taliban authorities are working to remove "un-Islamic" and anti-government literature from circulation.
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Rabbit R1 AI-Powered Pocket Assistant With 360-Degree Rotating Camera Launched: Price, Specifications
Rabbit R1 pocket AI assistant was launched by US startup Rabbit on Wednesday. It sports a 2.88-inch touchscreen display and is equipped with a scroll wheel and push-to-talk button. The device has a 360-degree rotating camera and runs on Rabbit OS that is powered by the firm's Large Action Model and can perform actions on your behalf.
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Samsung Galaxy Book 4 With Microsoft to Allow Using Galaxy Phones as Webcam and More
Samsung Galaxy Book 4 series was unveiled in December 2023. At CES 2024, Samsung announced that these models will offer improved connectivity and AI features thanks to a partnership with Microsoft. The company states that Microsoft's artificial intelligence backing will enable a smarter and more adaptable experience for users on the Galaxy Book 4.
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UK Woman Finds Book With A Message She Wrote 40 Years To Her Father
The book came with a message that Mrs Ford had handwritten decades ago for her father.
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Delhi Man Sends Abusive Texts To TV News Editor, Case Registered: Cops
Noida Police on Wednesday booked a Delhi-based man for allegedly sending abusive texts to the editor-in-chief of a television news channel, one of these messages also contained derogatory words against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials said.
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OpenAI Sued in US for Allegedly Misusing Artists' Work to Train ChatGPT
Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, ...
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CBSE Exempted From Paying Income Tax From 2020 To 2025
The Finance Ministry has exempted the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from paying income tax on earnings from examination fees, sale of text books and publications, besides others
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Texts On Gandhi, Ban On RSS Dropped From Class 12 NCERT Books
"Gandhiji's death had magical effect on communal situation in the country", "Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists" are among the texts missing from the class 12 political science textbook.
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"Whitewashing With Vengeance": Congress On Deletions From NCERT Books
Congress hit out at government over some texts missing from NCERT's new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking right-wing and the ban on RSS for some time, and called it "whitewashing with a vengeance".
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Video Calls Himanta Sarma "Copy Paste BJP CM". How He Reacted
A video showing Assam Chief Minister Himanta Sarma allegedly copying from a ready text to fill up a visitor's book while visiting a state school has sparked criticism. The Chief Minister has reacted to the video defending himself.
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ChatGPT Is Leading to Increase in AI-Written E-Books on Amazon, Kindle
The software's emergence has already ruffled some of the biggest technology firms, prompting Alphabet and Microsoft to hastily debut new functions in Google and Bing, respectively, that incorporate AI. The rapid consumer adoption of ChatGPT has spurred frenzied activity in tech circles as investors pour money into AI-focused startups and given te...
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AI Researchers Push to Open Up ‘Black Box’ of Language Models Amid Rapid Growth in AI Capabilities
A coalition of AI researchers has launched a new large language model that can serve as an antidote to systems such as GPT-3, which are considered close systems. BLOOM, for the BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model, can work across 46 languages, including Arabic, Spanish and French — unlike most systems that are fo...
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History Books Have Few Lines On Samrat Prithviraj, Lot Of Chapters On Mughals: Akshay Kumar
The education ministry needs to take cognisance of the contribution of Hindu kings and “balance” out their stories with those of Mughal emperors who enjoy more space in school texts, Bollywood star Akshay Kumar said on Wednesday.
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CBSE Drops 'Democracy And Diversity', Mughal Courts, Poems By Faiz From Syllabus: Report
CBSE dropped chapters about Democracy and Diversity, Non-Aligned Movement, Cold War, rise of Islamic empires, chronicles of Mughal courts and the Industrial Revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.
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Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins
Microsoft reached a deal with News Corp.’s HarperCollins that will allow the software company to use nonfiction titles from the book publisher to train its Artificial Intelligence models, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company isn’t planning to use the content to generate new books without human authors, the person said.
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Taliban Removes 'Un-Islamic' Books, Anti-Government Literature
Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles -- Taliban authorities are working to remove "un-Islamic" and anti-government literature from circulation.
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Rabbit R1 AI-Powered Pocket Assistant With 360-Degree Rotating Camera Launched: Price, Specifications
Rabbit R1 pocket AI assistant was launched by US startup Rabbit on Wednesday. It sports a 2.88-inch touchscreen display and is equipped with a scroll wheel and push-to-talk button. The device has a 360-degree rotating camera and runs on Rabbit OS that is powered by the firm's Large Action Model and can perform actions on your behalf.
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Samsung Galaxy Book 4 With Microsoft to Allow Using Galaxy Phones as Webcam and More
Samsung Galaxy Book 4 series was unveiled in December 2023. At CES 2024, Samsung announced that these models will offer improved connectivity and AI features thanks to a partnership with Microsoft. The company states that Microsoft's artificial intelligence backing will enable a smarter and more adaptable experience for users on the Galaxy Book 4.
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UK Woman Finds Book With A Message She Wrote 40 Years To Her Father
The book came with a message that Mrs Ford had handwritten decades ago for her father.
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Delhi Man Sends Abusive Texts To TV News Editor, Case Registered: Cops
Noida Police on Wednesday booked a Delhi-based man for allegedly sending abusive texts to the editor-in-chief of a television news channel, one of these messages also contained derogatory words against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials said.
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OpenAI Sued in US for Allegedly Misusing Artists' Work to Train ChatGPT
Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, ...
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CBSE Exempted From Paying Income Tax From 2020 To 2025
The Finance Ministry has exempted the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from paying income tax on earnings from examination fees, sale of text books and publications, besides others
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Texts On Gandhi, Ban On RSS Dropped From Class 12 NCERT Books
"Gandhiji's death had magical effect on communal situation in the country", "Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists" are among the texts missing from the class 12 political science textbook.
-
"Whitewashing With Vengeance": Congress On Deletions From NCERT Books
Congress hit out at government over some texts missing from NCERT's new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking right-wing and the ban on RSS for some time, and called it "whitewashing with a vengeance".
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Video Calls Himanta Sarma "Copy Paste BJP CM". How He Reacted
A video showing Assam Chief Minister Himanta Sarma allegedly copying from a ready text to fill up a visitor's book while visiting a state school has sparked criticism. The Chief Minister has reacted to the video defending himself.
-
ChatGPT Is Leading to Increase in AI-Written E-Books on Amazon, Kindle
The software's emergence has already ruffled some of the biggest technology firms, prompting Alphabet and Microsoft to hastily debut new functions in Google and Bing, respectively, that incorporate AI. The rapid consumer adoption of ChatGPT has spurred frenzied activity in tech circles as investors pour money into AI-focused startups and given te...
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AI Researchers Push to Open Up ‘Black Box’ of Language Models Amid Rapid Growth in AI Capabilities
A coalition of AI researchers has launched a new large language model that can serve as an antidote to systems such as GPT-3, which are considered close systems. BLOOM, for the BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model, can work across 46 languages, including Arabic, Spanish and French — unlike most systems that are fo...
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History Books Have Few Lines On Samrat Prithviraj, Lot Of Chapters On Mughals: Akshay Kumar
The education ministry needs to take cognisance of the contribution of Hindu kings and “balance” out their stories with those of Mughal emperors who enjoy more space in school texts, Bollywood star Akshay Kumar said on Wednesday.
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CBSE Drops 'Democracy And Diversity', Mughal Courts, Poems By Faiz From Syllabus: Report
CBSE dropped chapters about Democracy and Diversity, Non-Aligned Movement, Cold War, rise of Islamic empires, chronicles of Mughal courts and the Industrial Revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.
