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12 Apr Amazon adds AI expert Andrew Ng, Google Brain founder and Baidu alumnus, to its board

Posted at 03:20h in Asia

Amazon.com is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board of directors, a move that comes amid intense AI competition among start-ups and big technology companies.The Seattle company said Thursday that Ng, a managing director at the Palo Alto, California-based AI Fund, will replace...

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11 Apr TikTok owner ByteDance denies report of profit surge in 2023, prepares to launch Instagram rival

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

ByteDance, the owner of short video app TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin, has denied a news report saying the company’s profits jumped 60 per cent last year, as it plans two new apps – one to rival Instagram and another targeting European users –...

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05 Apr Google slaps Chinese developers with lawsuit in New York for conducting ‘pig-butchering’ scams via its Play Store

Posted at 14:30h in Asia

The fraudulent apps ran by the two Chinese developers “affected consumers across the globe” and resulted in “substantial financial losses” to Google users, the US tech giant said in its lawsuit. 06:18‘It’s scary’: Asian cryptocurrency scams bilk tens of thousands of ‘brainwashed’ victims‘It’s scary’: Asian cryptocurrency...

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05 Apr Opinion | Why world cannot rely on tech giants to solve its problems

Posted at 12:30h in Asia

The Kennedy-era guru on capitalism John Kenneth Galbraith presciently proclaimed in his 1967 book, The New Industrial State, that “the imperatives of technology and organisation, not the images of ideology, are what determine the shape of economic society”.According to the World Inequality Report 2022 stated,...

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28 Mar Amazon invests US$2.75 billion more in OpenAI rival Anthropic to boost generative AI efforts

Posted at 02:52h in Asia

Amazon.com says it is investing an additional US$2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing a deal it made last year to back the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up and expand a partnership between the companies.The infusion brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic, a well-regarded builder of AI tools...

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27 Mar Apple set to unveil AI strategy at June 10 worldwide developers conference

Posted at 01:59h in Asia

The iPhone maker announced the timing on Tuesday, saying the event will run through June 14. Though Apple did not say what it plans to unveil – in usual fashion – people familiar with the matter have said that the presentation will focus heavily on...

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27 Mar TikTok owner ByteDance accelerates generative AI efforts with increased talent acquisition, release of new tools

Posted at 00:30h in Asia

Beijing-based ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier, according to a search conducted by the South China Morning Post.A specific search for jobs in the development of large language models (LLMs) –...

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26 Mar Apple, Google, Meta targeted in EU’s first Digital Markets Act probes

Posted at 04:01h in Asia

Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms will be investigated for potential breaches of the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), European antitrust regulators said on Monday, potentially leading to hefty fines for the companies.The European Union law, effective from March 7, aims to challenge the...

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19 Mar Nvidia unveils new AI ‘superchip’ line-up Blackwell, succeeding dominant H100 chip banned from sale to China

Posted at 04:49h in Asia

Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang showed off new chips aimed at extending his company’s dominance of artificial intelligence computing, a position that’s already made it the world’s third-most-valuable business.A new processor design called Blackwell is multiple times faster at handling the models that underpin...

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15 Mar Alibaba adds 11 apps to Huawei’s HarmonyOS, bringing Xianyu, Fliggy and more to China’s Android rival

Posted at 12:00h in Asia

Alibaba Group Holding is partnering with US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies to develop native versions of the e-commerce giant’s apps for the smartphone maker’s operating system HarmonyOS, which is meant to take on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS in mainland China.Eleven applications under Alibaba Group – including...

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