AI
Painting by robot artist on auction for first time
Ai-Da, the world’s first humanoid robot artist, will soon make history as her portrait of Alan Turing, titled 'AI God', is set to be auctioned by the art auction house Sotheby’s in London.
30 October 2024, 07:36 AM
LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant, AI recruitment agent
LinkedIn has recently launched Hiring Assistant, a new AI-driven tool designed to streamline recruitment processes by automating several routine tasks.
30 October 2024, 03:08 AM
OpenAI Chairman's AI startup receives $175 mln funding
Sierra, a Silicon Valley-based AI startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, former Salesforce co-CEO and current OpenAI Chairman of the Board, has secured $175 million in a new funding round, giving the startup a $4.5 billion valuation.
29 October 2024, 02:44 AM
Runway's Act-One, new AI animation generator
Runway, a US-based AI research company specialising in creative software, has launched Act-One, a tool for generating character animations based on simple video and voice inputs.
28 October 2024, 09:28 AM
Canva releases Dream Lab, new AI image generator
Canva has recently launched Dream Lab, an AI-driven image generation tool that provides users with advanced image generation options directly on the Canva platform on both the web and mobile versions.
27 October 2024, 02:30 AM
Google goes nuclear to power up AI
Google is making a shift toward nuclear energy to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, signing a deal with nuclear tech startup Kairos Power to use small nuclear reactors.
16 October 2024, 10:48 AM
Southeast Asia emerges as global data centre hot spot as AI usage rises
With AI-supported innovations such as searches on ChatGPT now requiring at least four to five times more processing capacity compared with traditional internet searches, data centre demand is expected to grow at around 20 per cent a year for the next five to seven years, analysts at Maybank noted in an October report
15 October 2024, 07:33 AM
Apple's silicon revolution: From mobile to AI data centres
Apple is now positioning itself as a key player in the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and edge computing infrastructure, leveraging its custom silicon to drive the next generation of data centres. Let's take a look at the tech giant's journey in the realm of custom silicon chip.
10 October 2024, 09:35 AM
Nobel prizes for AI researchers raise concerns about prize categories
The recent awarding of Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics to Google-affiliated AI pioneers has sparked controversy, raising questions about Big Tech’s growing influence in cutting-edge research and whether the Nobel Prize categories adequately reflect modern scientific breakthroughs, according to a recent report by Reuters.
10 October 2024, 08:41 AM
Analysts worry about AI's profitability: report
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the realm of generative AI, is raising concerns about profitability and sustainability despite the overwhelming enthusiasm from investors and industry leaders, according to a recent report by AFP.
9 October 2024, 09:26 AM
Samsung apologises for delayed AI chip production
Samsung Electronics has issued an apology to its investors after revealing worse-than-expected revenue and profit forecasts, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News. The company acknowledged that it is struggling to maintain its technological competitiveness, especially in the fast-growing field of artificial intelligence (AI).
8 October 2024, 08:09 AM
Could AI win a Nobel Prize?
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionise industries from banking to content creation, it has also begun to influence scientific research, raising the question: Could AI one day win a Nobel Prize? While this may seem far-fetched today, a recent report by AFP highlights how researchers and scientists are working to develop AI systems potentially worthy of such recognition in the future.
7 October 2024, 07:24 AM
AI's next feat will be its descent from the cloud
Google owner Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, are forecast to spend a combined $160 billion in capital expenditures next year,
2 October 2024, 11:19 AM
OpenAI unveils new tool to simplify AI voice assistant development
OpenAI has recently unveiled the 'Realtime API' in public beta, a tool designed to help developers create low-latency, voice-interactive applications.
2 October 2024, 03:30 AM
James Cameron joins Stability AI board
James Cameron, the iconic filmmaker behind 'Titanic', 'Avatar', and 'The Terminator', has joined the board of Stability AI, a London-based startup known for its generative AI tools such as Stable Diffusion.
25 September 2024, 03:54 AM
Microsoft plans to open Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for AI data centre
To meet the growing energy demands of its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, Microsoft has signed a 20 year deal to bring the inactive Three Mile Island nuclear power plant back online, according to a recent power purchase agreement by Constellation Energy, the current owner of the Three Mile Island facility.
21 September 2024, 02:24 AM
Generative AI uses 30 times more energy than search engines: research
Sasha Luccioni, a prominent researcher recognised by Time magazine as one of the top 100 influential figures in AI, has recently raised concerns about the massive energy consumption of AI, especially generative models like ChatGPT and Midjourney. According to her research, these types of AI use much more energy than traditional search engines—up to 30 times more—because they don’t just pull up information; they create new content based on user input.
19 September 2024, 04:51 AM
Italy tests AI in schools to tackle EU digital skills gap
Italy is introducing an educational experiment by introducing artificial intelligence (AI) into its schools, as per a new program introduced by the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
17 September 2024, 12:40 PM
Public contents on Facebook, Instagram in UK to be used to train AI: Meta
Meta Platforms is set to resume training its artificial intelligence (AI) models using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the UK, according to a recent blog post by the company.
16 September 2024, 10:33 AM
Can Bangladesh leverage AI for inclusive growth?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force in the global economy, positioning itself as a cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution.
15 September 2024, 16:29 PM