US congressional advisory body has issued a stark warning to America’s biggest artificial intelligence (AI) companies: China’s AI ecosystem is no longer just catching up and it is zooming ahead in ways that chip export restrictions alone cannot stop. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission published…
David Sacks has warned that the US risks losing the global AI competition to China due to excessive negativity and overregulation around the technology. During a conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the technology investor, who US President Donald Trump appointed as his AI and crypto czar, cautioned…
Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White House’s top technology adviser defended the move in the administration’s first public testimony discussing the latest export control measures. Allowing China…
Unitree Robotics has launched an education platform for students to train robot dogs and understand how they operate based on the start-up’s Go2 system, as adoption of these quadruped machines expands from enthusiasts to mainstream consumers. According to its social media post on Tuesday, Unitree has developed an in-person training course with ready-to-use tools that…
Apple Inc. has created a ChatGPT-style iPhone application to support the development of a major overhaul of its voice assistant, Siri, expected to launch next year, according to sources familiar with the matter, reported Bloomberg. Veritas: Internal Testing Tool The app, reportedly known internally as Veritas—Latin for “truth”—allows Apple employees to test new AI-driven features…
It will not be really an exaggeration to say that Europe has been a laggard in technology. There are far and few European technology companies that have a global reach and recognition. It is no different in AI race, which too is dominated by American and Chinese companies. Europe now seems to be aiming to…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has launched legal action against a former employee accused of stealing sensitive information about its Grok chatbot and passing it to rival OpenAI. Details of the lawsuit The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in a California federal court, claims that engineerXuechen Li misappropriated confidential data on “cutting-edge AI technologies with…
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart competition for artificial intelligence.Apple and OpenAI have “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing,” the lawsuit said.The…