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Tech
Meta offered $100 mn bonuses to poach OpenAI employees: CEO Altman
New York (AFP) - Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees in an unsuccessful bid to poach the ChatGPT...
UK startup looks to cut shipping’s carbon emissions
London (AFP) - In a small London workshop, a prototype mimics the process of capturing carbon emissions from a cargo ship's...
Poll finds public turning to AI bots for news updates
Paris (AFP) - People are increasingly turning to generative artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT to follow day-to-day news, a respected...
Google turns internet queries into conversations
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Google on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial...
Meta makes major investment in Scale AI, takes in CEO
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Scale AI announced a major new investment by Meta late Thursday that values the...
‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one...
The most eye-catching products at Paris’s Vivatech trade fair
Paris (AFP) - Products ranging from footwear to AI counterfeit detectors fill the halls of Paris's Vivatech trade fair, which...
Waymo leads autonomous taxi race in the US
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Waymo's autonomous vehicles have become part of the everyday landscape in a growing number...
Nvidia marks Paris tech fair with Europe AI push
Paris (AFP) - Drawing high-powered tech CEOs and a presidential visit, the Vivatech trade fair opened in Paris on Wednesday...
Huawei founder says chips still lag ‘one generation’ behind US
Beijing (AFP) - Chinese tech giant Huawei's chips still "lag behind the United States by one generation", state media quoted...
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