A visualization of laser links connecting Kuiper satellites in orbit around the Earth. Amazon Amazon will include a key speed-boosting technology in its coming Project Kuiper internet satellites, the company announced Thursday. Amazon says it tested the laser link tech successfully during its recent Protoflight mission. Traditionally, satellites are limited to sending data between an …
The growing digital advertising market and rapid advancements in generative artificial intelligence should benefit Opera, according to Goldman Sachs. Analyst Eric Sheridan initiated coverage of Norway-based Opera Limited with a buy rating and $16.50 price target. That forecast implies shares could gain nearly 51% over the next 12 months. Shares of Opera, which makes desktop …
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters The MedLM suite includes a large and a medium-sized AI model, both built on Med-PaLM 2, a large language model trained on medical data that Google first …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images A federal court jury has decided …
Amazon bought three rocket launches from SpaceX for its Project Kuiper internet satellites, the tech giant announced on Friday. The move is a surprise from Amazon, given the company’s Kuiper system aims to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink in the satellite broadband market. SpaceX, the most active rocket operator in the world, has been adamant …
The era of free dating apps may be over: Companies are trying to boost revenue, while single people increasingly feel the apps are the only way to find love. Some 35% of Americans who have used a dating website or app have paid to do so at some point, according to a recent report by …
“Project Ellmann” is an internal Google proposal to use artificial intelligence to help users get a “bird’s-eye view” of their life stories. The idea would to use LLMs like Gemini to ingest search results, spot patterns in a user’s photos, create a chatbot and “answer previously impossible questions” about a person’s life. The team also …
On Wednesday, AMD CEO Lisa Su discussed the previously announced Instinct MI300X, a large graphics processor designed for AI-oriented servers, and that Microsoft and Meta had committed to using the chip. Thursday’s rise in AMD shares suggests investors believe the chipmaker can take a chunk of the AI chip market from Nvidia. Lisa Su displays …
Amazon will no longer allow users to pay with Venmo beginning Jan. 10, according to a notice sent to users. The company announced last October it would accept Venmo at checkout. Shares of PayPal, which owns Venmo, slid in early trading Thursday. The Venmo logo displayed on a smartphone. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | …
Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft said they will use AMD’s newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X — a sign that tech companies want alternatives to the expensive Nvidia graphics processors that have been essential for artificial intelligence. If the MI300X is good enough and inexpensive enough when it starts shipping early next year, it could lower …