British PM kicks off London Tech Week with AI safety project
This week UK PM Rishi Sunak kicked off London Tech Week 2023. He announced that the British government has invested record sums in AI regulations and the development of responsible AI. Major AI companies will give a UK task force early access to their tech in order to develop safety policies.
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‘EU approves Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware’
This week Reuters reported that US chipmaker Broadcom stands to obtain "conditional" EU antitrust approval for its proposed $61 billion (€57 billion) acquisition of cloud computing firm VMware.
The decision, pending since March, increased Broadcom shares by almost 5%, according to the report.
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Atlantic Declaration spurs US-UK cooperation on emerging technology
The new agreement offers UK companies more comprehensive data transfer facilities and streamlined AI regulation.
Britain and the United States have signed an "Atlantic Declaration" to address economic challenges together. This was communicated by the White House last week. These challenges exist... Read more
OpenAI is being sued for ChatGPT’s defamatory “hallucinations”
OpenAI is getting sued for alleged defamatory "hallucinations" made by ChatGPT. The generative AI chatbot keeps making things up and getting its owner into trouble.
A Georgia radio host, Mark Walters, found that ChatGPT was spreading false information about him. He has therefore sued OpenAI in t... Read more
Google adds 5 new features to Password Manager in Chrome
Users can now set up additional authentication methods, save password notes, easily import from other password managers, and more.
This week Google unveiled a suite of new features that enhance the functionality of the company's password management utility. Google Password Manager instantly gene... Read more
Researchers find way to identify academic AI writing 99% of the time
AI-generated academic articles can be differentiated from human writing using a simple set of standardised processes, a study shows.
Can generative AI services like ChatGPT successfully impersonate actual academic writers? A group of US based researchers say no. In fact, there are many telltale ... Read more
New Android security update fixes 5 critical security vulnerabilities
The latest update from Google fixes the most severe threat of the Mali GPU bug exploited as zero-day.
This week Google issued a security update that addresses dozens of vulnerabilities, including five that are deemed "critical" in their severity by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit... Read more
Google: ‘Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning’
The tech giant says its AI chatbot is improving at things like math and programming.
This week Google announced that Bard, its AI-powered chatbot, was getting better at logic and reasoning based tasks and queries. This must be welcome news given that the Google was late to the generative AI par... Read more
Intel Announces Intel Arc Pro A60 and Pro A60M GPUs
The new workstation graphics cards represent a significant "step up" over the current Arc offering.
This week, Intel introduced the Arc Pro A60 and Pro A60M professional graphics processing units (GPUs). The new products are a significant step up in performance in the Intel Arc Pro family. In ad... Read more
Bing drums up fake AI answers for Chrome search
Microsoft appears to be busy interfering with Chrome by giving AI answers to search prompts on Google's browser. The giant from Redmond is "fighting its corner" when it comes to the browser wars.
Microsoft gives no quarter in its fight to keep users from moving to competitors' platforms. In Febr... Read more