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Apple is hyping the heck out if its upcoming Apple Intelligence features that are headed to compatible devices, including the recently-launched iPhone 16 lineup (see our iPhone 16 Pro review) and the previous generation iPhone 15 series, both of which have the requisite hardware to power Apple's "AI" features. While...
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Perplexity is confident that it can change the way research is conducted in financial markets, due in part to its latest AI-enhanced toolset. The company has added new features that it believes can make its AI services the go-to tool used by finance professionals. With the aim of helping these professionals make...
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Google is making its NotebookLM tool, which is powered by Gemini AI 1.5, an even more powerful tool for understanding information as the company removes its “experimental” label. Along with being considered a full-fledged product ready to be used by a wider audience, NotebookLM is also getting upgraded with some...
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OpenAI is finally releasing a ChatGPT app for Windows, after making it available on macOS earlier this year. The company posted an announcement on the social media platform X, where it says that it’s now available to download from the Microsoft store for “ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, Team, and Edu users.” Free users will...
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The US Department of the Treasury announced it prevented and recovered over $4 billion in fiscal year 2024 using enhanced fraud detection processes, which included machine learning AI. With a national debt nearing $36 trillion, every billion matters.
With a stated mission of maintaining a strong economy and being...
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Motorola is upping the ante in the world of AI with its moto.ai concept, which is designed to transform a person’s smartphone into a truly smart assistant. The company made the announcement at this year’s Lenovo Tech World ‘24 event, claiming it would be taking AI on a smartphone "to a new level".
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Google has signed the first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors (SMR) to be developed by Kairos Power. The tech giant remarked the initial phase of work is intended to bring Kairos Power’s first SMR online by 2030.
As powering AI continues to put more stress on power...
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Apple today unveiled its latest-generation iPad mini tablet, which is powered by the company's custom A17 Pro silicon. The burlier processor is key to Apple's claim that it's newest iPad mini is "built for Apple Intelligence," though it comes with a caveat—as with the recently launched iPhone 16 lineup (and the...
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As artificial intelligence continues to progress, nefarious actors are finding new ways of using the technology to their advantage. A new warning has been issued by Microsoft Solutions consultant Sam Mitrovic concerning a "super realistic" AI scam that is said to be capable of tricking “even the most experienced of...
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At its Advancing AI event currently underway in San Francisco, CA, AMD announced an array of new products and technologies, and provided updates on other devices that have been revealed at various events over the last year. AMD talked about its Zen 5-based “Turin” EPYC server processors and new Ryzen AI PRO 300...
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Move over AMD, Intel, and especially Qualcomm, and make room for MediaTek, which is rumored to be making a serious move into the PC space with an intriguing AI chip collaboration with NVIDIA. While nothing has been officially announced yet, it's notable that NVIDIA and MediaTek have teamed up before—NVIDIA's DRIVE...
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Practically every major PC hardware and software player is high on the artificial intelligence (AI) movement, with the latest processors sporting dedicated neural processing units (NPUs) and company's like Microsoft and its partners heavily promoting the Windows maker's Copilot initiative. Despite the AI push, as well...
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It was just a few days ago when we reported on an impressive benchmark leak involving MediaTek's then-unreleased Dimensity 9400, which showed the flagship system-on-chip becoming the first-ever to achieve 3 million points in AnTuTu. A glimpse of things to become? We'll soon find out—MediaTek has officially launched...
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Qualcomm has been hitting the rumor and leak mill lately with its forthcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset for flagship phones, but today the company is unveiling its next effort to push the boundaries of networking with the help of AI. Qualcomm has just announced what they are calling "the first commercial platform to...
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Meta announced its AI will be gaining a voice (or two), along with other clever tricks at the company’s Meta Connect 2024 event. The tech giant added voice options for its AI chatbot that include the likes of Dame Judi Dench and John Cena, while also being able to get information from AI versions of Awkwafina...
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SK hynix, which notably supplies memory chips to NVIDIA (among other customers), said it has begun volume production of the world's first 12-layer high bandwidth memory 3E (HBM3E) chips in a 36GB capacity, which is the largest capacity of any existing HBM product to date. According to SK hynix, customers will get...
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During a recent interview with the New York Times, legendary ex-Apple designer Jony Ive confirmed that his company, LoveFrom, is spearheading the design of a mobile device in collaboration with OpenAI. The goal is to create a device that “is less socially disruptive than the iPhone,” with the use of AI.
There are...
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There's an old saying with social media: the users are the product. That used to mean that if you posted on a service like Reddit, then your data would be sold to advertisers, either individually or in aggregate. That has only become more true with the advent of AI, as companies race to acquire the data necessary to...
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AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) has been through a lot of iterations. The first major version was a straightforward spatial upscaler that produced unsatisfactory results unless the render resolution was very close to the output resolution. FSR2 was a major step forward, introducing motion vectors and temporal...
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While some users may be jumping for joy over Microsoft’s Recall tool showing up as a removable Windows 11 feature, the tech giant says not to get too excited, as it is just a bug. The change was spotted last week in the latest 24H2 version of Windows 11, with Microsoft confirming a fix is coming.
When Recall, a...
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Google has announced it will soon lift its ban on creating images of people with its Gemini AI. The text to image generation feature fell under heavy criticism after launch when people began noticing Gemini was not keeping things historical accurate.
Shortly after launch, Google decided to pull the ability for its Gemini AI to generate
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NVIDIA has served up yet another record quarter, as revealed in its latest earnings release that reflects $30 million in revenue for the three-month period ended July 28, 2024. That's up 15% sequentially and 122% compared to a year ago. Not unexpectedly, it was more record performance in NVIDIA's Data Center division...
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