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Source: Live Mint As Artificial Technology (AI) gets more advanced by the day, so much so that single individuals start forming a bond with it, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, has raised concerns. Referring to AI as the “perfect” girlfriend or boyfriend, Schmidt warned that young individuals forming emotional attachments to AI chatbots…
Source: Live Mint Amazon is set to invest a further $4 billion in Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, as major technology firms continue to vie for dominance in the generative AI sector. This latest investment will bring Amazon’s total funding in Anthropic, which began last year, to $8 billion. Despite the substantial…
Source: Live Mint Daksh Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Greptile, a Y-Combinator-backed AI start-up based in San Francisco, shot to fame recently for a long post he wrote on the ‘X’ platform where he wrote about his start-up’s culture of long working hours. He mentioned that typical workdays start at 9 am and end at…
Source: Live Mint The twin, developed in just a month in partnership with Microsoft and a Paris-based digital preservation company, Iconem, will provide millions worldwide with an immersive virtual experience of the Basilica. While Iconem used multiple devices,including drones, 3D cameras, and lasers to capture more than 400,000 high-resolution images of the Basilica, the data…
Source: Live Mint Robotic surgeries, especially in the post-covid era, are being routinely done in urology, oncology, nephrology, gynaecology and laproscopy. But these robots aren’t the kind you see in movies. Read Full Article
Source: Live Mint Chinese courts, meanwhile, are developing an AI system comprising “non-human judges”, designed to offer comprehensive support, enhancing legal services and reinforcing justice across “smart courts” by next year. Closer home, former chief justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, just days before his retirement on 11 November, tested the acumen of an AI “lawyer”…
Source: Live Mint —Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal Some have called it the ‘greatest political comeback of all time’. Others labelled it as the world’s most extreme ‘reality television show’. Donald Trump’s crushing victory in the US presidential elections has elicited a range of responses, from giddy delight to soul-crushing despair. But for…
Source: Live Mint IN JULY last year Henry Kissinger travelled to Beijing for the final time before his death. Among the messages he delivered to China’s ruler, Xi Jinping, was a warning about the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Since then American tech bosses and ex-government officials have quietly met their Chinese counterparts in…
Source: Live Mint Open-source software—in which a developer releases the source code for a product and allows anyone else to reuse and remix it to their liking—is at the foundation of Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and all four of the largest web browsers. The encryption of a WhatsApp chat, the compression of a Spotify stream…
Source: Live Mint Semiconductor design company Tessolve, owned by Hero Electronix, has acquired Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies for ₹400 crore, in a deal that would enable the Bengaluru-based technology firm design more complex processors and give it a competitive edge. The deal strengthens Tessolve’s design capabilities, besides giving it a much better access to European…
