US and Japan announce sweeping AI and tech collaboration
The US and Japan have unveiled a raft of new AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and other critical technology initiatives.
The ambitious plans were announced this week by
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Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Silent. Rigid. Clumsy.
Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward houseguests. For more than a decade, the couple, who live in Los Altos Hills, California, have
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The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off
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Google and Intel are challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance. It won't be easy.
Nvidia was named after the Latin word for envy, “invidia.” And there’s a lot to envy about the semiconductor giant. Companies have furiously gobbled up its very expensive AI chips
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Meta is on the brink of releasing AI models it claims to have "human-level cognition" – hinting at new models capable of more than simple conversations
We could be on the cusp of a whole new realm of AI large language models and chatbots thanks to Meta’s Llama 3 and OpenAI’s GPT-5, as both companies emphasize
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A new robot can mimic your facial expression, if that's of interest
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence continue, efforts to make robots less creepy and unsettling and more friendly and human-like are a coveted niche of development. Now, federally funded
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Nearly 50% of Companies Targeted by AI Deepfakes, Mastercard Report Reveals
Although
artificial intelligence (AI) technology has made a striking entrance into the
finance and trading industry, it also brings a series of potential dangers,
including the increasingly common deepfakes that
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Most Americans want strict AI regulations — privacy worries leave many concerned
Fast advancement and development of artificial intelligence, spurred on by the immense success of ChatGPT’s public preview launch in late 2022 and the subsequent onslaught of AI tools in the
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Deepfakes Take Center Stage in Financial Fraud
The realm of finance has
always been a haven for the cunning and the calculated. But in the age of
artificial intelligence, a new breed of tricksters has emerged, wielding
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Best Buy is giving its customer assistance an AI boost – but with a human touch
Best Buy is taking the plunge and incorporating AI-powered shopping tools for its customers, announcing today on its website that it’s partnered with Google Cloud and the consulting firm Accenture
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Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
The TEA expects to save between $15 and $20 million per year by using its new “automated scoring engine.” | Image: The Verge
Students in Texas
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Robotaxis shift up a gear as Waymo starts new autonomous rides – and Tesla is close behind
Although the notion of highly autonomous robotaxis has been around for a number of years now, the space is accelerating at a rapid rate – and now Alphabet subsidiary Waymo
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