Saudi Arabia is investing in foreign deeptech startups to get them to come to its country and help it build an industry, because its own sci-tech ecosystem is too immature to meet its ambition of becoming a global leader in state-of-the-art fields of technology. The yawning gap to the goal it set for deeptech to…
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With a large ecosystem of partners in France in both the public and private sectors, Microsoft already has a big stake in the country. But last May, the company announced it will be upping the ante with an investment of €4bn to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technologies. The company said…
Nvidia is expecting a big hit to its business as reports emerge of the White House imposing export restrictions on its H20 GPU (graphics processor unit) in China. The new restrictions appear to have been carried over from the previous administration’s policy to restrict access to AI chips and advanced AI models. The Framework for…
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Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…
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A team at Fudan University has just unveiled a stunning advancement in memory technology. The new tech is an experimental storage device that could redefine what we expect from our hardware. Known as PoX, this next-generation RAM can write data in just 400 picoseconds.For a bit more context, that’s about 25 billion operations per second,…
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I don’t always do it, but I do say “please” and “thank you” when talking to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. I use lots of words in those prompts, including appellatives like “Hey ChatGPT…” After all, that’s the point of sophisticated AI models that understand common speech. You can tell them what you’d like them to…
Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars Read More »
DeepSeek’s moment in the spotlight appears to be over, at least for now, as talk of ChatGPT’s image-generation abilities has dominated the AI conversations. Add all the new OpenAI announcements and Google’s various Gemini upgrades, like the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and there’s almost no room left for DeepSeek.But the breakthrough AI chatbot that shocked…
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Instagram is one of the social networks where you might find yourself endlessly scrolling through various feeds and looking at reels, all while dealing with the ads that make Meta money. That doomscrolling experience is curated based on the accounts you follow, your interests, and how you use the app. Meta’s algorithm registers everything so…
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In the wake of the abrupt termination of the Mitre contract to run CVE Programme, a group of vulnerability experts and members of Mitre’s existing CVE Board have launched a new non-profit with the intention of safeguarding the programme’s future. The CVE Foundation’s founders want to ensure the continuity, viability and stability of the 25-year-old…
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During its quarterly earnings (via Nikkei Asia), TSMC announced plans to make 30% of its best chips in Arizona, a move that it hopes will help the US create an “independent” chip cluster.However, TSMC chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stated that the manufacturer “is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint…
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