Apple Explores Making Personal Robots: Report
Apple engineers are working on making personal robots, a report said on Wednesday, just weeks after the iPhone-maker abandoned its efforts to develop an electric car.
'Grave Step Backwards': Meta Shuts Monitoring Tool In Election Year
The tech giant says CrowdTangle will be unavailable after August 14, less than three months before the US election. The Palo Alto company plans to replace it with a new tool that researchers say lacks the same functionality, and which news organizations will largely not have access to.
China's Xiaomi To Enter Cut-throat EV Market For The First Time
China's EV sector has grown rapidly in recent years -- propelled by purchasing subsidies that were discontinued in late 2022 -- and dozens of domestic automakers are engaged in a stiff price war to get ahead in a crowded market.
EU Probes Apple, Google, Meta Under New Digital Law
The European Commission, the EU's antitrust regulator, announced that it "suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA" -- the bloc's Digital Markets Act.
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AI Titan Nvidia Ramps Up Collaboration With Chinese Auto Giants
The move deepens Nvidia's connections with the Chinese EV industry even as it is separately prohibited by the United States from exporting its most powerful AI hardware to China.
TikTok And Its 'Secret Sauce' Caught In US-China Tussle
As a US campaign to sever TikTok from its Chinese parent heads to the Senate, analysts say Beijing's response to a forced sale of the app -- and its 'secret sauce' algorithm -- will be clear: Hands off.
El Salvador Stashes $406 Million In Bitcoin In 'Cold Wallet': Bukele
The cold wallet protects cryptocurrency investments by keeping them offline to prevent hacking attacks.
OpenAI Partners With Le Monde And Prisa Media
OpenAI will be able to use content from Le Monde and Prisa Media publications including El Pais, Cinco Dias, and El Huffpost to train the models powering its artificial intelligence, the San Francisco-based company said in an online post.
Italy Fines TikTok 10 Mn Euros For Failing To Protect Minors
The fine has been imposed on three units of China's Bytedance group, namely Ireland's TikTok Technology, TikTok Information Technologies UK and TikTok Italy.
French Startup Mistral AI Vows To Maintain Open Source
The announcement comes as US billionaire Elon Musk has sued ChatGPT creator OpenAI -- which also has ties to Microsoft -- accusing the firm of breaking its original non-profit mission to make AI research available to all.
Nigeria Targets Cryptocurrency In Bid To End Naira Freefall
The decision came after authorities in Africa's biggest economy imposed restrictions on cryptocurrency exchanges as part of attempts to halt the sliding value of the local currency.
AI Tools Generate Sexist Content, Warns UN
The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts of data largely pulled from the internet, which enables their tools to write in the style of Oscar Wilde or create Salvador Dali-inspired images.
OpenAI Rejects Musk's Accusations Of 'Betrayal'
The boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015 along with Sam Altman but left the organization in 2018 and is now one of its most vocal critics.
Bezos Dethrones Musk To Reclaim Title Of World's Richest Man
Musk, who also heads X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, has seen his riches fall by more than $30 billion as Tesla's share price has dropped 25 percent in recent months.
Five Things To Know About The EU's Landmark Digital Act
Under the new rules all buyouts, no matter how small, will have to be notified to the commission, the EU's executive arm based in Brussels.
Uber Eats Starts Robot Deliveries In Tokyo
Starting Wednesday, robot deliveries will be offered in a small area of the city by the US-based food app, which hopes to eventually roll out the service more widely in Japan.
AI Bot 'Jennifer' Calling California Voters For Congress Hopeful
But unlike her human counterparts, Jennifer is a creation of artificial intelligence (AI), allowing her to make thousands of calls without taking a break or losing her cool.
Hackers Stole 'Sensitive' Data From Taiwan Telecom Giant: Ministry
The confirmation of the democratic island's latest major data leak followed a report by local news channel TVBS on the hack of telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom.
Facebook Parent Meta To Stop Paying Australian News Media
Extending a global retreat from news content, Meta said it would scrap the Facebook News tab in Australia and would not renew deals with news publishers worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Video Game Giant Electronic Arts Announces Job Cuts
Electronic Arts on Wednesday said it is cutting about 5 percent of its workforce, as belt tightening continues in the video game and tech industries.
Zuckerberg, S. Korea's President Yoon Talk AI Cooperation
Zuckerberg is on a mini-tour of Asia that has included a stop in Japan, plus a three-day visit to Seoul where he met business leaders from electronics giants Samsung and LG. He heads to India next.
Google CEO Slams 'Completely Unacceptable' Gemini AI Errors
The controversy emerged within weeks of Google's high-profile rebranding of its ChatGPT-style AI to "Gemini", giving the app unprecedented prominence in its products as it competes with OpenAI and its backer Microsoft.
Apple Abandons Electric Car Plans: Media
The iPhone maker had dedicated nearly 2,000 employees to its secretive car development program, Bloomberg reported, but faced an increasingly competitive electric vehicle (EV) sector.
Zuckerberg Discusses AI Risks With Japan PM During Asia Tour
Zuckerberg is on a mini-tour of Asia that includes stops in Japan, India and South Korea, where he travelled on Tuesday night.
Robot Dogs And Flying Cars: Mobile Gadget Highlights
Tech companies showcased countless connected gadgets at the world's biggest wireless telecom fair, the four-day Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which wraps up on Thursday.
Smartphone Makers Bet On AI To Boost Sales
The trend was on display at the telecom industry's biggest annual show, the four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) which got underway Monday in Barcelona, where handset makers focused on the unique AI-powered features of their new flagship devices.
Digital Media Upstart Vice Laying Off 'Several Hundred' Staff: CEO
Millennial-focused and known for its edgy news and lifestyle content, Vice had been among the rising stars of a new breed of digital media firms but struggled as advertising revenues shrank.
Tech Titans Yield To New EU Rules Before March Deadline
The European Union long ago set its sights on big tech, aiming to rein in globally dominant companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft.
'Haunted' ChatGPT Cranks Out Gibberish For Hours
OpenAI, which makes the world-leading generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, said a software tweak had "introduced a bug with how the model processes language".
Massive Leak Shows Chinese Firm Hacked Foreign Govts, Activists: Analysts
The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes.
What To Know About The NASA-funded Commercial Moon Fleet
A first attempt under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative ended in disappointing failure last month, but a second, led by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, will attempt on Thursday to return the United States to Moon for the first time in five decades.
EU Launches Probe Into TikTok Over Child Protection
It is the second probe into a major online platform since Brussels introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), after targeting tech billionaire Elon Musk's X in December.
Four Xbox Exclusives Heading To Rivals In Big Shift
The move comes as Microsoft looks to boost Xbox sales that have lagged those of Sony PlayStation consoles, and to ramp up revenue from subscriptions to its cloud gaming service.
EU Rules Policing Digital Content Kick In Saturday
The new rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), kicked in last year for the world's largest platforms, including Facebook and TikTok, but will now apply to all except the smallest companies.
