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Brave launches its AI assistant on iPhone, iPad
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Brave launches its AI assistant on iPhone, iPad

Brave has unveiled its AI assistant, Leo, for iPhone and iPad users, extending the functionality previously available on Android and desktop platforms. Leo enables users to ask questions, summarize content, generate written reports, and perform various other tasks. Notably, the iOS release introduces voice-to-text capability, a feature absent in the Android version. This feature allows […]

Yahoo acquires Instagram co-founders' AI-news platform Artifact
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Yahoo acquires Instagram co-founders’ AI-news platform Artifact

Yahoo announced on Tuesday its acquisition of Artifact, the AI-driven news platform co-founded by Instagram’s creators. The technology from Artifact will be integrated across Yahoo’s news and other web services in the United States. This acquisition underscores the ongoing challenges faced by media startups in generating revenue, particularly as Big Tech giants like Alphabet and […]

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Expert calls for AI adoption to stabilise economy

President of Digital Transformation at Reliance Infosystems, Danjuma Audu, has called for the optimal adoption of Artificial Intelligence in businesses to enhance its effects on the national economy. This disclosure was made by Audu while speaking at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management’s conference in Lagos, recently, according to Thisday. He debunked the impression that […]

Two Chinese charged for shipping US AI chips to China
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Nvidia launches platform for 6G technology

Chipmaker Nvidia on Monday, unveiled an AI-powered software platform designed to facilitate research into 6G technology by simulating communications environments in the cloud. Anticipated to succeed 5G, the new communication standard, known as 6G, is projected to enter commercial use around 2030. This unveiling underscores the increasing integration of software and AI within the telecom […]

Technology to revolutionize advertising trends - Dentsu Nigeria
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Technology to revolutionize advertising trends – Dentsu Nigeria

Dentsu Nigeria’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Emeka Okeke, has stated that technology would continue to change the global marketing communications environment, particularly as Artificial Intelligence alters advertising trends and dynamics. According to Satoday.news, during the Dentsu Africa Summit 2024, which had the subject “NOW” and was recently held in Lagos, Okeke made this statement. […]

Anthropic integrates Brave search into Claude’s AI platform
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AI startup Anthropic launches new chatbot Claude model

Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon, unveiled a new suite of artificial intelligence models called Claude 3 on Monday, marking the latest development in the ongoing competition among Silicon Valley giants to promote increasingly powerful technology. According to the startup, the most advanced model in the Claude 3 family, Claude 3 Opus, surpasses […]

HP acquires Humane’s assets for $116m, AI pin sales discontinued
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Humane partners with South Korea’s SK Telecom for AI pin

AI startup, Humane has unveiled plans for its entry into the international market through a partnership with South Korean carrier SK Telecom. This announcement follows the delay in the shipping date of Humane’s Ai Pin device in the U.S. market, rescheduled from March to mid-April. Founded in 2017 by former Apple executives Bethany Bongiorno and […]

Google brings Gemini AI to smartwatches, expands search features
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Google to relaunch Gemini AI in coming weeks

Google intends to relaunch its AI tool for generating images of people in the coming weeks, as stated by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Monday. The tool, known as Gemini AI models, was temporarily halted last week due to inaccuracies in historical depictions generated by some users. The company decided to take the feature […]

Google appoints new leader for Gemini AI development
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Google to pause Gemini AI’s image generation over inaccuracies

Following inaccuracies in some historical depictions generated by its Gemini AI models, Google has decided to temporarily halt the use of its AI tool that creates images of people. The Gemini AI image generation feature was introduced earlier this month, but concerns were raised on social media as users observed historical images that were occasionally […]

OpenAI CEO teases restructuring amid lawyer, stakeholders negotiations
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OpenAI hits $80bn valuation after major deal

Artificial intelligence giant, OpenAI has recently sealed a significant deal with venture capital firm Thrive Capital, catapulting its valuation to an impressive $80 billion or potentially more. This remarkable surge nearly triples its value in just nine months, according to reports by the New York Times. The deal involves OpenAI’s participation in an ongoing share […]

Microsoft expands AI models for 365 Copilot to reduce costs
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Microsoft adds new design features to Copilot

Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbots and assistants, Copilot, are receiving several upgrades coinciding with a high-profile Super Bowl LVIII ad campaign. Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer, detailed the upcoming enhancements in a blog post on the official Microsoft website. “Today marks exactly one year since our entry into AI-powered experiences for people with Bing Chat,” he […]

Baidu denies data breach allegations after exec's daughter's leak
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Baidu AI bot hits 100m users

More than 100 million people have signed up for Baidu’s ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot, according to Wang Haifeng, the Chinese internet giant’s chief technology officer, announced on Thursday. The search engine giant revealed the user base milestone during a deep learning summit in Beijing, following the public launch of Ernie Bot in August. A partial debut […]