Android developers using the Android Studio environment can now use Gemini Pro in the built-in Studio Bot tool. This LLM replaces the tool's pre-existing GenAI capabilities based on the older PaLM 2. The arrival of Gemini Pro to Studio Bot in Android Studio means that developers get an improved ... Read more
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PC sales figures are on the rise again after two disastrous years. The first quarter of 2024 saw 1.5 percent more deliveries than the year before. This small level of growth clearly cannot yet be explained from the rise of the AI PC. IDC notes that PC sales figures finally resemble their pre-pan... Read more
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Microsoft sees many opportunities for AI research and development in the UK and is now opening a dedicated AI hub in the heart of London for that purpose. The company earlier announced it would invest around 2.9 billion euros (2.5 billion British Pounds) in AI in the UK. According to recently ap... Read more
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Atos has been in dire financial straits for several years. The French IT company needs a total investment of 1.2 billion euros, 600 million of which it hopes to secure through loans. With a new restructuring plan, the significant debts should be halved by 2026. That amounts to 2.4 billion euros ... Read more
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The new platform is designed to visualize and investigate security incidents in cloud, email, network, endpoint, identity, and OT environments. To do this, the ActiveAI Security Platform uses an AI engine. This analyzes a company's data to learn about the organization. Based on this, the engine ... Read more
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Microsoft has introduced a Windows driver that prevents users from changing default browser Edge in Windows 10 and 11 via third-party software or manual registry changes. The driver UCPD.sys, or User Choice Protection Driver, landed without notice among other February updates for Windows 10 (KB5... Read more
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Europe and the United States absolutely must continue to cooperate on chip technology, Imec CEO Luc Van den hove believes. A lack of good cooperation would be very inefficient. The top man of the Flemish chip research centre made this statement in response to a joint visit of American ministers ... Read more
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OpenAI trained GPT-4 on one million hours of audio from YouTube videos. The AI giant did not ask Google's permission to do so. However, the latter did not object because the company itself uses YouTube to train its own LLMs. In 2021, OpenAI lacked reliable English-language data available online ... Read more
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French investment company Butler Industries is joining a consortium with Onepoint to rescue troubled technology company Atos.According to consultancy firm Onepoint (Atos's main shareholder), Butler's participation should transform Atos into the leading European platform for cybersecurity and artifi... Read more
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The Dutch Mass Claim & Consumer Foundation asserts that Google knows much more about Android users than the company lets on. Through a lawsuit, the foundation hopes to bring about fundamental changes in how the OS operates. While numerous phone vendors use Android, Google is its main operato... Read more
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