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Baidu's New AI Text-to-Image Generator I-RAG and No-Code Platform Miaoda Reportedly Announced
Baidu, the Chinese tech giant, announced two new artificial intelligence (AI) platforms on Tuesday. The company introduced a text-to-image generator dubbed I-RAG and a no-code platform called Miaoda. The new AI platforms were showcased at the Baidu World Conference, the company’s annual event. Additionally, the company also plans to launch new AI...
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Nvidia Unveils B200 Flagship AI Chip, New AI Software Tools at Annual Conference
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Monday kicked off his company's annual developer conference with a slew of announcements designed to keep the chip maker in a dominant position in the artificial-intelligence industry.
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ChatGPT Upgrade Offering Access to Updated World Knowledge for GPT-4 Turbo Users Announced by OpenAI
ChatGPT is getting an upgrade to offer more up-to-date and accurate information, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. GPT4-Turbo will also be able to process an image as a prompt or write code, in addition to being trained on updated information.
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Google Unveils AI-Powered Tools to Enterprise Customers at $30 Monthly Fee
Google on Tuesday made its artificial intelligence-powered tools available to enterprise customers at a monthly price of $30 (nearly Rs. 2,500) per user, as the Alphabet-owned firm looks to cash in on the technology's surge in popularity this year. The price is the same as rival Microsoft's "Copilot" AI-powered office software suite that includes T...
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In Apple We Trust … With More and More Personal Data
At its World Wide Developers Conference this week, the company announced new products that would process more personal information about consumers than ever before, from retinal scans to mental health data. But privacy advocates this week were like mimes in a library — completely silent.
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Google Expected to Unveil AI Services in Its Products at I/O Event to Answer Microsoft's Search Challenge
The effort will be the most closely watched as Google executives take the stage at its yearly conference I/O in Mountain View, California, near its headquarters. The result could alter how consumers access the world's information and which company wins the global market for search advertising, estimated by research firm MAGNA to be $286 billion (ro...
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TSMC Unveils Software to Allow Automotive Chip Designers to Get Newest Chip Technology Into Cars Faster
TSMC on Wednesday announced that it will release new software to help automotive chipmakers bring the latest chip technology to cars at a faster rate. The software, that will be released later this year, will enable automotive chipmakers to start work on their designs about two years sooner than usual, according to TSMC.
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DEF CON Hacker Tournament Brings Together World's Best in Las Vegas
In the carpeted ballroom of one of the largest casinos in Las Vegas, the few dozen hackers competing in the challenge sat hunched over laptops from Friday through Sunday during the DEF CON security conference that hosts the event.
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Facebook Plans to Rebrand With a New Name Next Week: Report
Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, as per a report citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
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'Internet Apocalypse’: Severe Solar Storm Could Force World Offline for Weeks, Even Months
A study presented at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference says that the world could be forced to go offline for weeks or even months in the event of a severe solar storm that could occur within the next decade.
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Zoom Is Down Around the World, Company Is Investigating as Video Conferences Go Dark
Zoom has been down around the world since 5.30pm IST on Monday. While it is still working for some users, many people around the world say that the app has gone completely dark, and are not even able to log in. The company's status website also confirms a partial outage, and on social media, Zoom says it is investigating.
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Trade Tensions Cast Shadow Over China Web Summit
The official opening of the World Internet Conference was more muted this year and did not include previous calls for a more open Internet.
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Huawei Unveils Chips to Boost Cloud Computing at Shanghai Conference
Huawei, the world's largest telecom-equipment maker, unveiled an AI chip on Wednesday that will power its servers, in a push to boost its nascent cloud-computing business.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Hopeful Banned Apps Will Return to China Store
Cook said Wednesday he's optimistic some apps that fell afoul of China's tight internet laws will eventually be restored after being removed earlier this year.
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Apple, Facebook Find Something To Praise China For Amid Internet Clamp
Top executives at Apple Inc and Facebook Inc managed to find something to praise Beijing for at an internet conference in China this week, even as its Communist Party rulers ban Western social media and stamp on online dissent.
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Baidu's New AI Text-to-Image Generator I-RAG and No-Code Platform Miaoda Reportedly Announced
Baidu, the Chinese tech giant, announced two new artificial intelligence (AI) platforms on Tuesday. The company introduced a text-to-image generator dubbed I-RAG and a no-code platform called Miaoda. The new AI platforms were showcased at the Baidu World Conference, the company’s annual event. Additionally, the company also plans to launch new AI...
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Nvidia Unveils B200 Flagship AI Chip, New AI Software Tools at Annual Conference
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Monday kicked off his company's annual developer conference with a slew of announcements designed to keep the chip maker in a dominant position in the artificial-intelligence industry.
-
ChatGPT Upgrade Offering Access to Updated World Knowledge for GPT-4 Turbo Users Announced by OpenAI
ChatGPT is getting an upgrade to offer more up-to-date and accurate information, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. GPT4-Turbo will also be able to process an image as a prompt or write code, in addition to being trained on updated information.
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Google Unveils AI-Powered Tools to Enterprise Customers at $30 Monthly Fee
Google on Tuesday made its artificial intelligence-powered tools available to enterprise customers at a monthly price of $30 (nearly Rs. 2,500) per user, as the Alphabet-owned firm looks to cash in on the technology's surge in popularity this year. The price is the same as rival Microsoft's "Copilot" AI-powered office software suite that includes T...
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In Apple We Trust … With More and More Personal Data
At its World Wide Developers Conference this week, the company announced new products that would process more personal information about consumers than ever before, from retinal scans to mental health data. But privacy advocates this week were like mimes in a library — completely silent.
-
Google Expected to Unveil AI Services in Its Products at I/O Event to Answer Microsoft's Search Challenge
The effort will be the most closely watched as Google executives take the stage at its yearly conference I/O in Mountain View, California, near its headquarters. The result could alter how consumers access the world's information and which company wins the global market for search advertising, estimated by research firm MAGNA to be $286 billion (ro...
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TSMC Unveils Software to Allow Automotive Chip Designers to Get Newest Chip Technology Into Cars Faster
TSMC on Wednesday announced that it will release new software to help automotive chipmakers bring the latest chip technology to cars at a faster rate. The software, that will be released later this year, will enable automotive chipmakers to start work on their designs about two years sooner than usual, according to TSMC.
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DEF CON Hacker Tournament Brings Together World's Best in Las Vegas
In the carpeted ballroom of one of the largest casinos in Las Vegas, the few dozen hackers competing in the challenge sat hunched over laptops from Friday through Sunday during the DEF CON security conference that hosts the event.
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Facebook Plans to Rebrand With a New Name Next Week: Report
Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, as per a report citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
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'Internet Apocalypse’: Severe Solar Storm Could Force World Offline for Weeks, Even Months
A study presented at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference says that the world could be forced to go offline for weeks or even months in the event of a severe solar storm that could occur within the next decade.
-
Zoom Is Down Around the World, Company Is Investigating as Video Conferences Go Dark
Zoom has been down around the world since 5.30pm IST on Monday. While it is still working for some users, many people around the world say that the app has gone completely dark, and are not even able to log in. The company's status website also confirms a partial outage, and on social media, Zoom says it is investigating.
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Trade Tensions Cast Shadow Over China Web Summit
The official opening of the World Internet Conference was more muted this year and did not include previous calls for a more open Internet.
-
Huawei Unveils Chips to Boost Cloud Computing at Shanghai Conference
Huawei, the world's largest telecom-equipment maker, unveiled an AI chip on Wednesday that will power its servers, in a push to boost its nascent cloud-computing business.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Hopeful Banned Apps Will Return to China Store
Cook said Wednesday he's optimistic some apps that fell afoul of China's tight internet laws will eventually be restored after being removed earlier this year.
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Apple, Facebook Find Something To Praise China For Amid Internet Clamp
Top executives at Apple Inc and Facebook Inc managed to find something to praise Beijing for at an internet conference in China this week, even as its Communist Party rulers ban Western social media and stamp on online dissent.
