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Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google over barriers to its Android app store

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A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire. The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a …

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Samsung and ASML to invest $760 million to Build an Advanced Chip Plant in South Korea

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Key Points ASML and Samsung Electronics agreed to jointly invest 1 trillion won to build a plant in South Korea to develop high-tech semiconductor processing technology for cutting-edge chips. The announcement came as South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is in the Netherlands for a four-day visit which seeks to forge a “semiconductor alliance” between the two …

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$4.7 billion European Fintech Firm Pleo Appoints new CFO, Pointing to IPO Hopes

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Key Points Pleo has hired Soren Westh Lonning, a financial services executive with more than 20 years at companies including Chr Hansen, WS Audiology, and Danish Endurance, as its CFO. Appointing a CFO is a symbolic move that indicates a company wants to get its accounting systems in good shape for an eventual stock market …

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Vodafone, Cirrus360, and Intel introduce a new computer language framework for Open RAN

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Vodafone, Cirrus360, and Intel have demonstrated a computer language framework for Open Radio Access Networks (RAN) that automates the process of introducing and running software across hardware from multiple vendors. The RAN Domain Specific Language (RDSL), which is described in a white paper shared with the wider RAN community (see link below), provides operators with …

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Indian astronaut on the Moon by 2040: ISRO chairman S Somanath

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Following the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) now plans to send Indian astronauts to the Moon by 2040, said chairman S Somanath. “Looking ahead, ISRO aims to take the next step in space exploration with the Gaganyaan programme, planning to launch a crew of 2 to …

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Microsoft Partners with Labor Groups to Quell Concerns About AI Taking Jobs

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Key Points Microsoft announced Monday that it would team up with labor unions to create an “open dialogue” on the future of artificial intelligence and the workforce. The partnership comes as Microsoft and other AI providers face increased pressure from labor groups and regulatory bodies over how AI will displace workers. The alliance will include …

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OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’

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OpenAI says it is investigating complaints about ChatGPT having become “lazy”. In recent days, more and more users of the latest version of ChatGPT – built on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model – have complained that the chatbot refuses to do as people ask, or that it does not seem interested in answering their queries. If the …

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Google Weighs Gemini AI Project to Tell People Their life Story Using Phone Data, Photos

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Key Points “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 be 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. …

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Japanese Tech Giant Rakuten Plans to Launch Proprietary AI Model

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Key Points Japan’s Rakuten plans to launch its own proprietary artificial intelligence language model, its CEO told CNBC in an interview that aired Monday. Rakuten has a number of businesses from banking to e-commerce and telecommunications, therefore has a large amount of “very unique” data to train its large language model (LLM) on, according to …

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Microsoft upgrades Copilot with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo, DALL-E 3 – and more

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Nine months after Microsoft launched its popular AI chatbot Bing Chat, the company rebranded it with a new name — Copilot. Now Microsoft is introducing new features to Copilot that optimize the AI’s performance even further. In a blog post, Microsoft revealed new features users can expect to see in 2024, and even some you can …

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