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Meta Platforms has hired an Oslo-based team that until late last year was building artificial-intelligence networking technology at British chip unicorn Graphcore. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the hirings in response to a request for comment, after Reuters identified 10 people whose LinkedIn profiles said they worked at Graphcore until December 2022 or January 2023 and subsequently

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the latest TV series moving forward with production amidst the ongoing writers’ strike. However, the production will happen without its showrunners on set. As per Variety, the series has 19 days of filming remaining but per the rules set by the Writers Guild of America

Microsoft has offered to charge different prices for its Office product with and without its Teams app to stave off a possible EU antitrust investigation and fine, two people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft has been seeking to address the EU competition enforcer’s concerns since last year after Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slack complained

Social media giant Meta’s Facebook took action against around 45 percent of complaints it received from users and Instagram against 64 percent of grievances raised by users in March 2023, according to the company’s latest India Monthly Report. As per the category-wise information disclosed by Meta, Facebook acted only on around 8 percent of grievances

Apple will likely report a more than 4 percent drop in revenue, its second straight quarterly decline, weighed down by consumers shunning non-essential purchases such as iPhones and Mac computers and slowing growth at its services business. The results on Thursday from the world’s most valuable company will follow better-than-expected earnings from U.S. technology peers,

Of the dozens of listed companies talking up the potential of ChatGPT-like technologies, Chegg is among the first to publicly state just how deleterious the trend could be for its business. It needn’t be, though management seems ready to ride the wave of this new innovation rather than swim against the current. Chegg describes itself

Apple urged a London tribunal on Tuesday to block a $2 billion (roughly Rs. 163 crore) mass lawsuit accusing it of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones by “throttling” them with software updates. The tech giant is facing a lawsuit worth up to 1.6 billion pounds plus interest, brought by consumer champion Justin Gutmann

International Business Machines (IBM) expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming years, CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg News on Monday. Hiring specifically in back-office functions such as human resources will be suspended or slowed, Krishna said, adding that 30 percent of non-customer-facing

About half of Indians surveyed said that they are unable to differentiate between the real and cloned voice of a person while 83 percent of the victims of voice scams have faced the loss of money, online security firm McAfee said in a report. The survey of 7,054 people was conducted in seven countries, including

Indian education platform Byju’s CEO is confident that the country’s financial crime-fighting agency will find the company compliant after raids on its premises over suspected breaches of foreign exchange laws, according to an internal memo. Byju’s is one of India’s biggest startups, once valued at $22 billion (roughly Rs. 17,98,34 crore). It has attracted global

What are the biggest TV shows and web series in May 2023? Dimple Kapadia’s Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo leads the pack of new releases this month, alongside Dahaad, the latest crime drama from Zoya Akhtar (Gully Boy) and Reema Kagti. The former is a Hotstar Specials show where a group of inimitable women led by

Taiwan’s top chip design company MediaTek is focusing more resources on chips for cars and AI computing as its smartphone clients face a supply glut and inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty dent demand for consumer electronics. “We are definitely moving our resources very, very rapidly towards the automotive and computing areas, because those areas will provide

A US federal judge on Friday denied Google‘s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology, saying the government’s case was strong enough to go forward. The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January, has argued that Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite. Google has

As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word “chatbot.” References to AI-generated content largely referred to deepfakes: images or audio

The ChatGPT chatbot was reactivated in Italy after its maker OpenAI addressed issues raised by Italy’s data protection authority, the agency and the company confirmed on Friday. Microsoft-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy last month after the country’s data protection authority, also known as Garante, temporarily banned the chatbot and launched a probe over

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes finally has a trailer. As part of its CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, Lionsgate dropped the first footage for The Hunger Games prequel movie, which charts the younger days of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), long before he becomes the antagonist — the Capitol president — in

A committee of European Union lawmakers on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement on a European Artificial Intelligence Act, which would pave the way to the first ever regulation of AI. “Against conservative wishes for more surveillance and leftist fantasies of over-regulation, parliament found a solid compromise that would regulate AI proportionately, protect citizens’ rights, as

Aadhaar holders have carried out nearly 2.31 billion authentication transactions in the month of March 2023, indicative of the growing usage of Aadhaar and the growth of the digital economy in the country. In a release, the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT said the March number is better than the February when 2.26 billion