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Alibaba launches new Qwen3 AI with major upgrades to rival DeepSeek

2 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, Baidu, ChatGPT, e-commerce, Google, Microsoft, Tech / By

Ahead of DeepSeek’s R2 release, Alibaba announced its new Qwen3 AI model. The Chinese giant wants to improve its artificial intelligence capabilities and efficiency compared to the DeepSeek model.According to Nikkei Asia, the e-commerce company reduced computing power while still being able to train 36 trillion tokens, double the amount used for its previous Qwen2.5…

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If Google is forced to sell Chrome, you should be wary of the buyer

6 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Google, MacBook, Microsoft, Tech / By

I’m a longtime MacBook user browsing the web primarily through Microsoft Edge. It might seem a very odd choice, considering that Apple has a great browser built into macOS, and Safari is even better for privacy than any alternative. Also, Edge is essentially a Chrome clone that Microsoft developed once it was clear its previous…

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Roadmap for commercial adoption of quantum computing gains clarity

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, quantum computing, Square, Tech / By

Over the past few months, some significant breakthroughs in quantum computing technology have indicated how quickly it’s evolving. While it remains very much in the domain of academia and researchers tackling error correction, the roadmaps of quantum computing businesses suggest that useful machines are on their way. IBM’s roadmap shows that this year, there will…

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Mitre warns over lapse in CVE coverage

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One of the cyber security world’s most significant assets, the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) system operated by US-based non-profit Mitre appears to be heading for trouble, after it emerged that the contract pathway for Mitre to continue to run the project on behalf of the US authorities is set to lapse on Wednesday 16…

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Microsoft remains committed to AI in France

5 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Computer, Intel, Microsoft, Tech / By

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…

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Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, Atlassian, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, data science, Google, Jira, Kubernetes, machine learning, Microsoft, quantum computing, Tech / By

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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Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars

4 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, Microsoft, Tech / By

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…

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Apple removes AI references from iPhone 16 billboards after Siri fiasco

2 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Google, Intel, iPhone, Microsoft, Tech / By

Ahead of the WWDC 2025 keynote, Apple decided to give its New York billboards a new look. Instead of the punchy but controversial “Imagine it. Genmoji it” slogan, the company decided to take a more classic approach to promoting the iPhone 16 Pro’s recording capabilities.PMC’s Parker Ortolani spotted that Apple has been altering promotional billboards…

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Interview: Tomer Cohen, chief product officer, LinkedIn

8 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, Facebook, Microsoft, Tech / By

As LinkedIn’s chief product officer (CPO), Tomer Cohen oversees the teams responsible for product management, user experience and design, and customer operations. His journey to his C-suite role came after admiring the company from afar. Cohen moved to Silicon Valley in 2008 from Israel to study at Stanford University. He attended a lecture discussing the…

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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, Git, GitHub, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, social media, Tech / By

Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…

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