Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion in Prime Membership Settlement
The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Amazon two years ago.
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Elon Musk’s xAI Signs Deal to Provide Grok Chatbot to US Agencies
The billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured a deal with the government that will allow federal agencies to use the chatbot Grok for a small fee.
Intel Said to Seek Investment From Apple
The Silicon Valley chipmaker has held talks with Apple about bolstering its finances as it looks to turn around its ailing business.
Government partners with Huawei to train Pakistani youth in IT skills
If you’re an engineer completing your four-year bachelor’s programme and enter the industry, companies are frustrated you have no experience. But now, Huawei and the Pakistan government are trying to fill this gap by training 300,000 young people.“If even one million youth earn an average of $10,000 annually, the economic impact would be massive,” an … Read more
Kojima’s OD and AI’s cultural incapability
AI has little concept of other cultures Source: REUTERS Much like people after COVID, AI is unable to pick up on social cues. Specifically, social cues and cultural contexts of non-Western societies when using it to translate another language. Say you host someone at your house and ask them if they want chai, and then … Read more
How to Use Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16
Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features in Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 to make your own.
OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.
Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years.
WhatsApp just made talking across languages way easier
Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it is introducing a translation feature for its WhatsApp messaging service, aiming to ease cross‑language chats among its more than 3 billion users. The translations will initially be available in six languages on Android devices and 19 languages on iPhones, with more languages to follow. “Message translations were designed to … Read more
YouTube to Reinstate Accounts Banned Over Content Related to the Pandemic and 2020 Election
The streaming platform unveiled its plan in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee.
Nvidia to invest $100b in OpenAI, provide data center chips in major AI partnership
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data center chips, the companies said on Monday, marking a tie-up between two of the highest-profile players in the global artificial intelligence race. The move underscores the increasingly overlapping interests of the various tech giants developing advanced AI systems. The deal gives … Read more