While discussing the global AI chip race at the center stage of Web Summit Rio this week, Marcio Aguiar, director of enterprise sales at Nvidia Brazil, said that the company is not interested in fighting for market share, but in opening new markets. “That is why we also work side by side with Google, AWS, …
Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in United Arab Emirates-based artificial intelligence firm G42, giving the US tech giant a minority stake and a seat on the board, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. Under the partnership, G42 will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure to deliver advanced AI …
Palmer Luckey — the Oculus VR headset creator who was controversially fired from Facebook in 2017 after he donated $10,000 to a pro-Donald Trump group — has called on Meta “to make everything public” about the still-murky circumstances behind his exit. Facebook has repeatedly denied that Luckey, who sold Oculus to Meta for $2 billion …
A 14,500-kilometre subsea cable project in the Arctic will redraw the international data traffic route, offering a strategic alternative away from vulnerable European cables that have already come under attack by the West’s enemies. Receding Arctic ice is unlocking a new northern route for undersea internet cables that have become crucial for global data transmission. …
Let’s get right to it: Target Circle Week ends tomorrow, April 13 and we just found a wild deal on our favorite VR headset that can save you $50 and get you a free $50 Target GiftCard. What’s the catch? This one-day deal is exclusively available for Target Circle members. There are three different Target …
Processors that crunch through supercomputing tasks in the blink of an eye. Batteries that recharge in a flash. Accelerated drug discovery, encryption and decryption, and machine learning. These are just a few of the possibilities that may be enabled by quantum computing, which harnesses the laws of physics to perform calculations much faster than even …
TikTok is gearing up to launch a photo-sharing app dubbed “Notes” in a move that could rival social media platform Instagram. Users have reported seeing pop up notifications with information on the latest app. TikTok chiefs have not confirmed when it will launch but said it will be “soon”. Some Reddit users have shared screenshots …
The Google Gemini chatbot’s “woke” AI image generator still isn’t fixed more than a month after its disastrous rollout – and some critics claim it’s the latest sign that embattled CEO Sundar Pichai should be out of a job. The search giant disabled Gemini’s ability to create pictures of humans in late February after it …
Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup could get a major boost as xAI races to catch rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in the highly competitive space. Investors close to the Tesla and SpaceX CEO are in talks to help xAI raise $3 billion in a funding round that could value it at $18 billion, sources told the …
Apple has classified iPhone 6 Plus as “obsolete”, which means Apple will no longer repair it and will rarely — if ever — issue critical security updates. This is a big deal: iPhone models that no longer receive updates could have flaws that are actively exploited by hackers, leaving your personal data and payment details …