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Apple retreats in fight to defend App Store in Europe
13Mar By adminNo Comments
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Apple retreats in fight to defend App Store in Europe

[ad_1] Apple made a major concession in its battle to protect the dominance of its App Store on iPhones and other devices in Europe on Tuesday, saying developers will be free to distribute their apps directly to consumers.Apple announced the changes to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which kicked in last week. The changes could dent the high profit margins and steady stream of revenue that Apple has come to rely on from its App store, where it charges developers fees of up to 30%. The changes, which affect only the European Union, come amid continuing criticism from rivals that Apple's compliance efforts are falling short. Beginning this spring, software developers operating in Europe will be able to distribute apps to EU customers directly from their own web...
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Some Like It Bot: Realistic Marilyn Monroe AI image makes debut at tech conference
9Mar By adminNo Comments
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Some Like It Bot: Realistic Marilyn Monroe AI image makes debut at tech conference

[ad_1] Are you a fan of Marilyn Monroe and would like to talk to a very realistic digital version of her? That could now be possible. More than 60 years after her death, Digital Marilyn Monroe - created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) - made her debut on Friday at the South by Southwest tech conference in Austin, Texas. Appearing via computer screen in a modest black turtleneck sweater and sporting her familiar blonde pixie hairstyle, the iconic actress's digital doppelganger will converse in her familiar breathy voice. She can express emotions, such as smiling in response to a compliment.In a recent test, Digital Marilyn Monroe talked about her favorite movie role as Sugar in the 1959 comedy "Some Like It Hot", pausing and glancing down in a reflective manner before offer...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlights the immense power AI PCs wield
8Mar By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlights the immense power AI PCs wield

[ad_1] The annual HP Amplify partner conference in Las Vegas unfolded with a wave of discussions and revelations, all centered around the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on various industries. From partnership program upgrades to a strategic shift towards subscriptions and services, the two-day event brought tech leaders, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, to a unanimous agreement on the pivotal role of AI. Analysts are dubbing 2024 as the year when AI takes center stage in product pitches.During the HP Amplify Partner Conference's fireside chat with HP CEO Enrique Lores, Satya Nadella, in his 32nd year at Microsoft, emphasised AI's broad potential impact, calling for a fundamental reevaluation of the entire tech stack. Nadella highligh...
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It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges
7Mar By adminNo Comments
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It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

[ad_1] After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research.Some of its conflicts stem from decisions made well before the debut of ChatGPT, particularly its unusual shift from an idealistic nonprofit to a big business backed by billions of dollars in investments. It's too early to tell if OpenAI and its attorneys will beat back a barrage of lawsuits from Elon Musk, The New York Times and bestselling novelists such as John Grisham, not to mention escalating scrutiny from government regulators, or if any of it will stick. Feud with Elon MuskOpenAI isn't waiting for the court process to unfold before publicly defending itself against legal c...
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AINot good for society to make untested AI model public, advisory on AI not binding: Vaishnaw
5Mar By adminNo Comments
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AINot good for society to make untested AI model public, advisory on AI not binding: Vaishnaw

[ad_1] Social media firms and internet companies need to take the onus of their work, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Monday, asserting that no untested AI model can be made public as it is not good for society.The minister also said that the government advisory on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not binding but it apprises firms that they should make their AI models public only after testing. Deployment of AI models should be done responsibly, Vaishnaw said, adding, "It is important for citizen's safety, democratic process. Therefore, an advisory has been issued that any AI model should be properly tested before being made available. It is applicable on social media platforms (as well)." He was replying to a question on the government'...
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Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI’s next wave
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Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI’s next wave

[ad_1] Whenever Madonna sings the 1980s hit “La Isla Bonita” on her concert tour, moving images of swirling, sunset-tinted clouds play on the giant arena screens behind her.To get that ethereal look, the pop legend embraced a still-uncharted branch of generative artificial intelligence – the text-to-video tool. Type some words — say, “surreal cloud sunset” or “waterfall in the jungle at dawn” — and an instant video is made. Following in the footsteps of AI chatbots and still image-generators, some AI video enthusiasts say the emerging technology could one day upend entertainment, enabling you to choose your own movie with customizable story lines and endings. But there's a long way to go before they can do that, and plenty of ethical pitfalls on the way. For early adopters like Madonna,...
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Nvidia becomes Tesla’s successor as market flips from EV to AI
4Mar By adminNo Comments
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Nvidia becomes Tesla’s successor as market flips from EV to AI

[ad_1] Nvidia Corp.'s rise is captivating the stock market and driving the S&P 500 Index to new highs. But it also raises cautionary reminders of another investor darling that soared on dreams of a technological transformation, only to tumble back to earth when those hopes turned to disappointment. That stock belongs to Tesla Inc., which sparked its own mania in 2017 as investors bet that electric vehicles were going to take over the world. Back then, Elon Musk's company was a phenomenon as it blew past established carmakers like General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. in market capitalization to become America's biggest auto manufacturer. Some analysts were looking beyond the industry and calling it “the next Apple Inc.” Now, Tesla shares are down more than 50% from their 2021 peak, ...
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Your face for sale: anyone can legally gather and market your facial data without explicit consent
4Mar By adminNo Comments
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Your face for sale: anyone can legally gather and market your facial data without explicit consent

[ad_1] The morning started with a message from a friend: “I used your photos to train my local version of Midjourney. I hope you don't mind”, followed up with generated pictures of me wearing a flirty steampunk costume.I did in fact mind. I felt violated. Wouldn't you? I bet Taylor Swift did when deepfakes of her hit the internet. But is the legal status of my face different from the face of a celebrity? Your facial information is a unique form of personal sensitive information. It can identify you. Intense profiling and mass government surveillance receives much attention. But businesses and individuals are also using tools that collect, store and modify facial information, and we're facing an unexpected wave of photos and videos generated with artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The d...
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Sports analytics may be outnumbered when it comes to artificial intelligence
3Mar By adminNo Comments
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Sports analytics may be outnumbered when it comes to artificial intelligence

[ad_1] When it comes to artificial intelligence, the sports analytics crowd may be outnumbered. The people who killed the sacrifice bunt and turned NBA games into a 3-point shooting contest aren't quite sure what will happen when AI fully invades sports — whether in the front office or on the field.“I've been in computer science a long time. This is the first thing we don't understand,” Philadelphia 76ers team president Daryl Morey said Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. “That's mind-boggling,” Morey said. “We've actually now created something, with 0's and 1's, where every step we've made the creation, but we don't understand the results.” The MIT conference annually brings together thousands of number-crunching sports nerds, who turn their data models loose on hot to...
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