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Internet of Things (IoT)
Meta’s Zuckerberg unveils AI projects aimed at building metaverse future
Facebook-owner Meta is working on artificial intelligence research to generate worlds through speech, improve how people chat to voice assistants and translate between languages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, as he sketched out...
Application Platforms
Europe’s bid for AI standard faces long road, EU lawmakers say
Europe's effort to set a standard for artificial intelligence will likely take more than a year, with the debate focusing on whether facial recognition should be banned and who should enforce the rules, two...
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Sony’s new AI beats humans in Gran Turismo racing game
Sony has said it has created an artificial intelligence agent called Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) that was able to beat world's best drivers of the PlayStation racing simulation game Gran Turismo.
To get GT...
Internet of Things (IoT)
Self-driving car companies zoom ahead, leaving US regulators behind
Self-driving vehicle companies from Tesla Inc to General Motors Co's Cruise are racing to start making money with their technology, outrunning efforts by regulators and Congress to write rules of the road for robot-driven...
Computing Platforms
Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be world’s fastest
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc has said that its research team has built a new artificial intelligence supercomputer that it thinks will be the fastest in the world when completed in mid-2022.
Meta said in...
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Amazon to open fashion store where algorithms suggest what to try on
Amazon.com Inc's recipe for the department store of the future includes algorithmic recommendations and what one corporate director called "a magic closet" in the fitting room.
The online retailer is making another push to grow...
Application Platforms
Microsoft’s $16 billion Nuance bid gets EU antitrust approval
The European Commission has granted Microsoft unconditional antitrust approval for its $16 billion bid for artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications.
The deal is Microsoft's second biggest after its $26.2 billion LinkedIn purchase...
Application Platforms
FT reports the US is to add 8 Chinese companies to investment blacklist
The United States will add eight Chinese companies, including the world’s largest commercial drone manufacturer DJI Technology Co Ltd, to an investment blacklist this week, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
The US Treasury will...
Application Platforms
South Korea to test AI-powered facial recognition to track COVID-19 cases
South Korea will soon roll out a pilot project to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and thousands of CCTV cameras to track the movement of people infected with the coronavirus, despite concerns about the...
Gaming Platforms
Twitch launches tool to catch channel ban evaders
Amazon.com Inc's live-streaming site, Twitch, is launching a tool to detect users who try to access channels where they have been banned, it has said.
The new tool, called Suspicious User Detection, will flag "likely"...
Application Platforms
Baidu warns of ad revenue slowdown after quarterly results beat
Baidu has beaten quarterly revenue and profit estimates on the strength of its cloud business, but warned that China's regulatory crackdown and the pandemic would weigh on advertising sales in the coming quarters.
Beijing's wide-ranging...
Computing Platforms
Russia’s Sberbank, enhancing AI offering, unveils second supercomputer
A second supercomputer and AI upgrades form part of Sberbank's enhanced offerings of digital services such as cloud computing and virtual assistant software, CTO David Rafalovsky told journalists.
Russia's largest lender is investing more in...