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India launches global repository of Digital Public Infrastructure
The Indian government on Friday launched the Global Digital Public Infrastructure Repository (GDPIR) to bring together resources and learnings from G20 members to design and build Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). “Its primary aim is to bridge the knowledge gap in...
How to think about Apple Silicon
When it comes to thinking about Apple Silicon, any industry insider will tell you that there is a long lead time attached to silicon development — meaning development of the chips inside the most modern devices today probably began several years ago.Zoom out and think...
Nonfiction authors sue OpenAI, Microsoft over copyright infringement
A group of non-fiction writers has filed a class-action suit against OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly infringing on their copyrighted materials by training the AI chatbot ChatGPT on their written works and academic journals without their consent.The suit — one of...
Don’t let Apple’s Vision Pro come in by the back door
Apple hasn’t been shy about its view of the Vision Pro as an enterprise device with real-world business applications. (The company even highlighted business apps during the mixed-reality headset’s introduction at this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference.)While...
Sam Altman returns to OpenAI after agreement reached
Sam Altman is to return to OpenAI within days of his departure and the company appointing two interim CEOs during the period, OpenAI announced in a post on X.“We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board...
Confluent unveils data streaming for AI for real-time applications
Getty Images Confluent, the data streaming pioneer, has announced Data Streaming for AI, an initiative to accelerate organisations’ development of real-time AI applications.Achieving real-time AI demands more than fast algorithms; it requires trustworthy,To read this...
Anthropic’s Claude 2.1 LLM turbocharges performance, offers beta tool use
Anthropic has upped the ante for how much information a large language model (LLM) can consume at once, announcing on Tuesday that its just-released Claude 2.1 has a context window of 200,000 tokens. That's roughly the equivalent of 500,000 words or more than 500...
Amazon to cut jobs at Alexa unit to sharpen focus on generative AI
Amazon confirmed Monday that it is planning to lay off several hundred workers at its Alexa division as part of a shift in focus to generative AI.The company's emphasis on developing generative AI systems has resulted in the release of new offerings, like the tool...
Nothing proves Apple’s arguments against the EU’s DMA
There was, in the oldness of time, demand for Apple to open up its iMessage service a little. Then, out of the blue, over-zealous company Nothing justified Cupertino’s privacy and security arguments against doing so in mere hours — even as Apple announced plans to...
EU Commission issues objections to Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition
The EU Commission has issued a Statement of Objections regarding Adobe's proposed $20 billion acquisition of web-based collaborative design company Figma.The Statement of Objections is part of an ongoing investigation the Commission launched after Adobe announced...
Turmoil at OpenAI raises concerns about genAI’s future, rapid advance
The fallout over the firing of the co-founder of OpenAI continued this week, raising concerns that the uncertain future of the company could more broadly affect the future of generative AI (genAI) technology.Hundreds of OpenAI employees — nearly the company’s entire...
Sam Altman joins Microsoft as OpenAI board appoints Emmett Shear as CEO
Chaos continues to reign at OpenAI, with the appointment of Emmett Shear, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, a video-streaming website, as OpenAI’s interim CEO after the abrupt exit of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, last week. Shear would be replacing Mira Murati,...