Jeff Bezos Just Dropped $6.2 Billion on a Secret AI Startup and Elon Musk Is Fuming Jeff Bezos is making a serious comeback. He is reportedly stepping into an executive role as co-CEO of a stealth-mode AI startup called Project Prometheus, which has already raised a staggering $6.2 billion. The company, co-led by Bezos and…
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Key Takeaways Agentic AI is the ability of machines to perform tasks requiring human intelligence, such as learning, decision-making, and problem-solving. Main branches of AI include Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Robotics, and Expert Systems, each unlocking different applications. Agentic AI is reshaping industries from healthcare and finance to contact centers by boosting efficiency and…
A US District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth has ruled that Elon Musk-owned X and xAI can move forward for now with their lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. On Thursday, the tech giants failed to convince the court to dismiss a lawsuit against them. Musk accused American firms of conspiring to monopolise markets for…
Whether or not markets are getting ahead of themselves over artificial intelligence is a hot topic for investors right now. Last week, billionaire investor Ray Dalio said his personal “bubble indicator” was relatively high, while Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell described the AI boom as “different” from the dotcom bubble. For Magnus Grimeland, founder of…
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: OpenAI has launched third-party apps within ChatGPT, starting with travel giants Expedia and Booking.com, allowing users to research and book trips directly through the chatbot. The move follows the launch of OpenAI’s new Apps SDK (software development kit), which enables developers to create integrated experiences within ChatGPT. The feature…
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…
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Hundreds of AI apps and sites can now easily make fake pornography from photos of anyone, including children. Three women in Minneapolis tell CNBC how a close friend made explicit imagery of them using a “nudify” tool. Often marketed as simple face-swappers,…
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…