Tech Geek 1 year ago

The user base of generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in China had reached 230 million by June 2024, highlighting the country's widespread adoption of generative AI-driven upgrades across various industries.

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Generative AI product user base in China reaches 230 mln

Generative AI product user base in China reaches 230 mln-

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Black Friday spending in U.S. retail stores was muted this year in contrast to a more robust rise online, as bargain-hungry Americans skipped stores in favor of their phones and laptops, according to data from Mastercard and other data providers. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/black-friday-data-shows-us-shoppers-spent-108-bln-online-2024-11-30/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in medicine and industry. Credit: Beatrice Britton / Adam Clancy https://phys.org/news/2024-11-chemists-world-thinnest-spaghetti.html

Tech Geek 1 year ago

SpaceX launches fifth mission for NRO’s proliferated architecture . ‘The U.S. government’s largest-ever satellite constellation continues to grow’

SpaceNews

SpaceX launches fifth mission for NRO’s proliferated architecture

SpaceX launches fifth mission for NRO’s proliferated architecture  SpaceX launches fifth mission for NRO’s proliferated architecture

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other named defendants from engaging in what Musk’s counsel claims is anticompetitive behavior

TechCrunch

Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit | TechCrunch

Counsel for billionaire Elon Musk have filed for an injunction against OpenAI, seeking to prevent the company from transitioning to a for-profit.

Tech Geek 1 year ago

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average notched record closing highs in a shortened Black Friday session, lifted by technology stocks such as Nvidia., while retail was in focus as the holiday shopping season kicked off. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-inch-up-ahead-shortened-black-friday-session-2024-11-29/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Sources close to Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, said the company may spend over $10 billion on a nearly 25,000-mile project. Meta would reportedly own 100% of the cable's capacity, per TechCrunch.

Business Insider Africa

Meta is reportedly building a $10 billion underwater cable that will circle the globe

Meta is reportedly planning to build a fiber-optic underwater cable that would traverse the globe, TechCrunch reported

Tech Geek 1 year ago

A coalition of Canada's biggest news outlets is suing OpenAI, the maker of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, alleging the company is illegally using news articles to train its software.

Major Canadian news outlets sue OpenAI

The suit, a first for Canada, alleges OpenAI's chatbot was illegally scraping news articles, which the firm denies.

Tech Geek 1 year ago

NASA performed a scientific mission earlier this year, surveying Greenland's massive ice sheet to test the limits and capabilities of its Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar technology. The agency didn't expect to "see" anything interesting down there, yet they rediscovered a long-abandoned base built by the US during the Cold War. Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/105763-nasa-got-new-view-secret-cold-war-base.html

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Big Tech corporations on Friday hit out at a landmark Australian law that bans youths under the age of 16 from accessing social media, saying the law was "rushed" through parliament. https://www.reuters.com/technology/big-tech-says-australia-rushed-social-media-ban-youths-under-16-2024-11-29/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

O2 users will have suspected scam and nuisance calls flagged to them before they pick up the phone via a new AI-powered tool, the mobile operator has said. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/o2-launches-aipowered-scam-call-detection-tool-b2655021.html

Tech Geek 1 year ago

As a ceasefire the U.S. helped broker between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah came into effect Wednesday, President Biden said his administration would quickly launch "another push" with international partners to secure a deal to end the even deadlier war in the Gaza Strip. Source:

As Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes hold, Biden heralds new push for truce with Hamas in Gaza

As Israel and Hezbollah cease fire after a year, President Biden says Palestinians in war-torn Gaza also

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Multiple Chinese tech firms recently launched several chips that will power ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ or GSE, a networking protocol designed to accommodate the large volumes of data and high transfer speeds that AI and other high-performance workloads require.

Tom

China debuts ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ chip to deliver networking solutions for AI — aims to compete with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium for next-generation interconnection technologies

This is China

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Orange has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in Europe that will give the French telecoms operator access to pre-release AI models, group chief artificial intelligence officer Steve Jarrett said on Wednesday.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/orange-signs-deal-with-openai-get-access-pre-release-ai-models-2024-11-27/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday opened London's first Google-funded AI Campus which aims to help young people develop skills in the rapidly developing technology.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/british-pm-opens-google-backed-ai-campus-inspire-students-2024-11-27/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Japan's space agency aborted an engine test for the Epsilon S rocket on Tuesday after it exploded and caught fire, a repeated failure that will likely push the rocket's debut launch beyond the March-end target and delay the national space programme. Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/japan/japans-space-agency-checks-fire-during-epsilon-s-rocket-engine-test-nhk-reports-2024-11-26/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Spotify is getting support for Google’s Gemini Extensions, which will allow users to search for and play music using the generative AI assistant with natural language requests.

The Verge

Google’s connecting Spotify to its Gemini AI assistant

It’s too late to count for Spotify Wrapped.

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 70 smartphone series on Tuesday, bolstering its premium smartphone comeback while showcasing its own operating system that looks to cleanly break away from U.S. technology. https://www.reuters.com/technology/huawei-launches-mate-70-smartphone-2024-11-26/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

The U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday it was finalizing a $7.86 billion government subsidy for Intel, down from $8.5 billion announced in March after the California-based chips maker won a separate $3 billion award from the Pentagon.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-finalizes-786-billion-chips-manufacturing-award-intel-2024-11-26/

Tech Geek 1 year ago

Orangr will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday. Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/orange-enlists-meta-openai-develop-ai-language-models-africa-2024-11-26/