China’s push to develop top-end artificial intelligence microchips is gaining momentum, but analysts say it will struggle to match the technical might of US powerhouse Nvidia within the current decade. The Barron’s news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to…
China has completed its first manned deep dive below the Arctic polar ice in what was also the world’s first coordinated crewed-uncrewed submersible operation in the polar region. The dives were conducted as part of China’s 15th and largest Arctic Ocean science expedition, which concluded last month. Researchers collected hundreds of deep-sea samples as well…
Elon Musk once again revealed the development of Grokipedia, with reports of an early beta version planned for release soon after. This new initiative positions Grokipedia as a direct competitor to Wikipedia, promising advanced features that integrate Grok AI for enhanced accuracy and user interaction. Musk revealed the rollout timeline in a post on X,…
Some young Chinese writers are said to be “in a state of panic” over rapid advances in artificial intelligence tools like DeepSeek, as they question whether the emerging technology is a blessing or a curse. The debate was one of the key themes at a two-day conference held in Suzhou in late September – “Border…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that an early version of “Grokipedia,” a new project linked to his AI venture xAI, will be released in the coming weeks. Taking to microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), Musk wrote: “Version 0.1 early beta of Grokipedia will be published in 2 weeks”. For those unaware, Grokipedia is touted…
The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a “misperception”, according to the author of The New Geography of Innovation, a recently published book that maps the rise of new tech powers around the world excluding the US. “The geography of innovation is shifting”, the book, which…
Faced with the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence in education, many schools and universities have decided to ban the use of telephones in class, mainly to prevent cheating linked to tools such as ChatGPT. But an unexpected phenomenon is gaining momentum: it is now the teachers themselves who are being singled out for their excessive…
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has praised Elon Musk for being “smart and ahead of the curve,” particularly in the realm of video-trained robotics and AI. However, Cuban remains sceptical about Musk’s vision of humanoid robots dominating the future. Speaking on the Prof G Markets podcast, Cuban highlighted that while robotics will be crucial for productivity,…
TURIN – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly said Friday (Oct. 3) that the artificial intelligence boom is an “industrial bubble” rather than a “financial bubble,” meaning that even if the sector’s share prices collapse, the technology’s benefits will remain. Speaking at Italian Tech Week, Bezos pointed to the fiber-optic cable that outlived the dot-com crash and the…