Big tech’s bet on nuclear power a bold climate strategy or a risky gamble?

Staff Writer

6 hours ago

Big tech’s bet on nuclear power a bold climate strategy or a risky gamble?

Big tech companies including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon are exploring nuclear energy in response to rising electricity demand of...

Character.ai faces lawsuit after its AI chatbot tells child to kill parents

Staff Writer

6 days ago

Character.ai faces lawsuit after its AI chatbot tells child to kill parents

Google-backed AI chatbot company Character.ai was slapped with a lawsuit in a Texas court in the US by two families that claim the...

Court orders to restore WP Engine's access to WordPress

Staff Writer

Dec 11

Antitrust

Court orders to restore WP Engine's access to WordPress

A California court has ordered Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org themes, plugins, and...

Google’s new quantum chip can do 10 septillion years of computing in 5 mins

Staff Writer

Dec 10

Quantum Computing

Google’s new quantum chip can do 10 septillion years of computing in 5 mins

Google’s Quantum AI team has announced an advanced quantum computing chip, named Willow, that can run random circuit sampling (RCS)...

Bitcoin scales a new all-time high of $100,000

Staff Writer

Dec 5

Web3

Bitcoin scales a new all-time high of $100,000

Bitcoin (BTC), the cryptocurrency once dismissed as a niche and risky experiment, surpassed the $100,000 mark for the first time since...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger forced to step down

Staff Writer

Dec 3

Companies

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger forced to step down

Pat Gelsinger’s turbulent run as CEO of Intel came to end this week after the company announced that he is retiring and stepping down...

Australia bans social media for children under 16

Staff Writer

Nov 29

Privacy

Australia bans social media for children under 16

Australia has passed a new law to completely restrict children below 16 years of age from using social media. The Online Safety Amendment...

Unintended consequences of AI's rapid advancement

Abhijit Ahaskar

Nov 25

Unintended consequences of AI's rapid advancement

AI is often called a double-edged sword as it can be used for causing as much harm as good. The rapid adoption of AI in recent years has...

Abhijit Ahaskar

Nov 22

Companies

How AI is changing the job landscape

Generative AI’s ability to learn from large datasets and create anything from art, text or computer codes with a human-level accuracy and...

Microsoft's new generative AI image model can screen for cancer

Staff Writer

Nov 20

Microsoft's new generative AI image model can screen for cancer

Microsoft has developed a generative AI-based medical image analysis model called BiomedParse that can improve early diagnosis of...

CCI fines Meta Rs 213 crore for forcing users to accept data sharing policy

Staff Writer

Nov 19

Antitrust

CCI fines Meta Rs 213 crore for forcing users to accept data sharing policy

India's antitrust watchdog the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has slapped a fine of Rs 213 crore (approx $25 million) on...

Google may be forced to sell Chrome as part of antitrust deal

Staff Writer

Nov 19

Antitrust

Google may be forced to sell Chrome as part of antitrust deal

US’ Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to force Google to sell its Chrome browser business to break the company’s monopoly in the...

AI-powered deepfake scams shoot up during festive season sale

Staff Writer

Nov 18

AI-powered deepfake scams shoot up during festive season sale

Recent advancements in generative AI have led to a proliferation of deepfake celebrity scams on social media, especially during online...

Staff Writer

Nov 1

OpenAI integrates web search in ChatGPT

OpenAI can now provide answers to queries about real-time events like a search engine, the AI startup announced on October 31. Earlier,...

Meta to bring back face recognition tech to detect scams, verify users

Staff Writer

Oct 22

Privacy

Meta to bring back face recognition tech to detect scams, verify users

Facebook -parent Meta Platforms is re-introducing face recognition technology (FRT) for user verification and scam detection, three years...

Why AI scientists were awarded Nobel Prize for physics?

Staff Writer

Oct 15

Why AI scientists were awarded Nobel Prize for physics?

This year’s Nobel Prize for physics, shared by Geoffrey E Hinton and John J Hopfield, was the first to recognise groundbreaking work in...

Social media platforms accused of mass surveillance, targeting children

Staff Writer

Sep 20

Privacy

Social media platforms accused of mass surveillance, targeting children

Social media and video streaming services are conducting “vast surveillance” on their consumers to monetize their personal data, said US...

China follows EU’s lead in labeling AI-generated content

Staff Writer

Sep 16

China follows EU’s lead in labeling AI-generated content

China wants digital platforms to label all content generated with artificial intelligence (AI). Cyberspace Administration of China, the...

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