Phone makers like Google and chip makers such as Qualcomm suggest that 2024 will be the year of on-device AI. Last month at its annual Executive Summit, MediaTek, the producer of the silicon that ends up in millions of phones and smart devices, highlighted the advantages to using generative AI on phones. For instance, getting …
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China helped Egypt send a remote-sensing satellite into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China Monday. The satellite MISRSAT-2, launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 12:10 p.m. (Beijing Time), will be used in Egypt’s land and resource utilization, water conservancy, agriculture, and other fields. The MISRSAT-2 is a landmark project …
The programme will see a network of three radars set up in the UK, US and Australia as part of the security pact between the three nations. The UK’s dish is planned for Wales and could be up and running by 2030. Why you can trust Sky News The UK, US and Australia have announced …
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You don’t need to know how to code to create your own AI chatbot. Since the start of November—shortly before the chaos at the company unfolded—OpenAI has let anyone build and publish their own custom versions of ChatGPT, known as “GPTs”. Thousands have been created: A “nomad” GPT gives advice about working and living remotely, …
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Google DeepMind has used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the structure of more than 2 million new materials, a breakthrough it said could soon be used to improve real-world technologies. In a research paper published in science journal Nature on Wednesday, the Alphabet-owned AI firm said almost 400,000 of its hypothetical material designs could soon …
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Microsoft will take a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI’s board, CEO Sam Altman said in his first official missive after taking back the reins of the company on Wednesday. The observer position means Microsoft’s representative can attend OpenAI’s board meetings and access confidential information, but it does not have voting rights on matters including electing …
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Google has agreed to pay Canadian publishers for their news content, backing down from a high-stakes threat to block all news content produced in the country on its platforms after the tech giant and the Canadian government announced a deal Wednesday to avert the looming crisis. The agreement resolves tensions between Google and Canada over …
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Nigerian politician, Wilfred Bonse has been arrested for reportedly stealing ₦607 million ($760,000) from the accounts of a FinTech called Patricia in a $2 million hack last year. Nigerian Police Force said Bonse, who withdrew from Cross River governorship race in 2023, diverted the money into his account through a cryptocurrency wallet with the help …
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Kenya on Monday launched a digital platform to host and track all international treaties and instruments to which the country is a signatory. Abraham Korir SingOei, the principal secretary in the State Department of Foreign Affairs, told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that the database is a centralized repository that will enable the …
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X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, typically earns the most money in the last months of the year, as brands ramp up their advertising campaigns for the holiday shopping season. According to The New York Times, though, the company’s earnings report for this quarter might look different than usual. Based on internal documents …
