Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store after Beijing order
By Josh Ye and Mrinmay Dey (Reuters) – Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China after being ordered to…
Microsoft-OpenAI deal set to dodge formal EU merger probe
By Foo Yun Chee and Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators have concluded that Microsoft‘s $13 billion investment into OpenAI is not an acquisition, sources familiar with the matter…
Will AI halve workers? Survey raises alarm
AI workers: Artificial Intelligence will lead many companies to reduce their workforce over the next five years. This is according to a new study conducted by the Adecco Group, which highlights…
Baidu says AI chatbot ‘Ernie Bot’ has attracted 200 million users
By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s Baidu said on Tuesday its artificial intelligence chatbot “Ernie Bot” has garnered more than 200 million users as it seeks to remain…
Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data
By Katie Paul and Anna Tong NEW YORK (Reuters) – At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services…
OpenAI’s Voice Engine: everything you need to know about the voice cloning model
It takes comedians months of study to imitate a famous person’s speech, while it only takes Voice Engine 15 seconds to clone a person’s voice. The difference is abysmal, but what is…
Amazon Web Services lays off several hundred tech, sales staff
By Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) – Amazon Web Services has eliminated several hundred sales, marketing and tech roles, it said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of job cuts by…
Meta cannot delay US FTC from reopening privacy probe, court says
By Mike Scarcella and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Meta Platforms cannot delay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from reopening a probe into alleged privacy failures by its Facebook unit…
New AI benchmark tests speed of responses to user queries
By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence benchmarking group MLCommons on Wednesday released a fresh set of tests and results that rate the speed at which top-of-the-line…
Anguilla’s unexpected wealth due to AI
Think of a tiny country full of dreamy beaches washed by a clear sea, ideal for a holiday to remember for the rest of your life. Can you imagine that…