The tech giant would like to accelerate adding artificial intelligence to stay ahead of the competition. But, for example, Google would fear losing lucrative deals with Samsung to Bing. The introduction of generative AI seems to be shaking the cards in the lucrative search bot market for the first time […]
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SpaceX, the American space company of Elon Musk, will launch the first test flight of the mega-rocket Starship this afternoon. With a size of 120 meters, the Starship is the giant rocket ever. She intends to serve in space missions to the moon and Mars. The 2.5-hour launch window opened […]
Twitter users with a Twitter Blue subscription, which offers additional features, can now compose tweets of up to 10,000 characters. Previously, the limit of paid accounts was 4,000 characters. In addition, regular users have 280 punctuation marks at their disposal. Paying users now also have the option to put text […]
Despite international sanctions, Russia has imported more than $1 billion of technology products, such as high-end processors. A UK-based company allegedly sent some of the contraband. This is evident from reports from the Financial Times and Nikkei. The Financial Times report on the illegal export is based, among other things, […]
The company can present a small increase in turnover but sees its profit decrease despite one-off windfalls. The Chinese supplier Huawei posted a turnover of 642.3 billion Yuan last year. That is an increase of 0.9 percent. However, net profit fell 68.7 percent to EUR 4.75 billion (CNY 35.6 billion), […]
Japan is further restricting the export of technology for the production of chips. From now on, about ten companies from the Asian country will need a license to export their most advanced products. The decision follows pressure from the United States to stop selling state-of-the-art semiconductor technology to China. Still, […]
Over a thousand people have signed an open letter calling for a pause in developing increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI). Tesla boss Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, among others, are concerned about the lack of guardrails in case AI systems disrupt society. Specifically, the signatories ask developers of […]
Apple has acquired WaveOne, a company that wants to provide better image compression with artificial intelligence. Apple does not formally confirm the acquisition, but Techcrunch found that WaveOne’s website has been offline since January. However, many former employees are active today in the company’s machine-learning groups. At the same time, […]
Chinese technology group Huawei has had to replace thousands of product parts as US sanctions hit them. Company founder Ren Zhengfei admitted this during a speech in February, the transcript of which was published by a Chinese university on Friday. Huawei, a major equipment supplier for 5G telecommunications networks, has […]
Two days after an announcement from Google, Microsoft also announced the addition of artificial intelligence (AI) based assistant to its office software. All parts of its Office package, including the word processor Word, spreadsheet program Excel, PowerPoint and e-mail program Outlook, will receive such an assistant based on the latest […]
