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Chinese search engine Baidu on Monday shared pre-recorded videos of its AI-powered chatbot Ernie summarising financial statements and producing powerpoint presentations, among other industry-focused capabilities. According to images shared by a Baidu spokesperson in a media-facing group on WeChat, China’s most widely used messaging service, the Chinese chatbot has a wider range of skills than previously displayed when it was …

Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The company has told at least two customers that using its Bing search index – a map of the …

Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk has offered the social-media company’s employees stock grants at a valuation of nearly $20 billion, the Information reported on Saturday, citing a person familiar with an email Musk sent to Twitter staff. The reported valuation is less than half of the $44 billion that Musk paid to acquire the social media platform, pointing to a …

PARIS: A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts, according to the European Space Agency. The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, is estimated to be 40 to 70 metres (130 to 230 feet) wide, roughly the size of the Parthenon, and …

Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The company has told at least two customers that using its Bing search index – a map of the …

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our lives. We take it for granted without realising we use it every day. Imagine visiting a place before Google Maps was introduced. Or the hassle of sifting through your emails without a spam filter. The father of modern computer science, Alan Turing said, “Artificial Intelligence refers to tasks being …

California-based cultivated meat company GOOD Meat has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to bring its lab-grown chicken to market, according to agency documents released on Tuesday.   View this post on Instagram   A POST SHARED BY GOOD MEAT (@GOODMEATINC)   Several companies are working to bring cultivated meat to market in the United States, and …

Web browser company Opera has announced to add ChatGPT and Al summariziation features to its platform to transform users’ browsing experience. These new tools are available in early access across all desktop platforms, according to the company. AI Prompts, a native feature in the Opera Browser, will help users shorten a long confusing text or explain it to them, whether …

WASHINGTON: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said on Tuesday that US user numbers had soared to 150 million — almost half the total population — as he prepared to fight at US Congress for the Chinese owned site’s future. Chew will give testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday where he is set to face a barrage of …

WASHINGTON: TikTok said on Monday the short-video sharing app now has 150 million monthly active users in the United States, up from 100 million it said it had in 2020. The Chinese-owned app confirmed the figure ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony set for Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. On Friday, six more US senators …