Photo: @Dan Meyers/Unsplash The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the development of the world’s first “ChatGPT” tool, dedicated to the agricultural community. The announcement was made by Mariam Almheiri, Head of the International Affairs Office in the UAE Presidential Court, at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The tool, referred to as “CHAG,” will be made … Read more
Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings added more than 3,000 jobs in the third quarter, in a sign that the country’s most valuable technology company is on a new growth trajectory after the industry was beset by downsizing in recent years. The Shenzhen-based company had 108,823 employees by the end of September, up 3 per cent … Read more
Viralyft / Unsplash A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools — and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting the AI chatbot, and its figures … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Months ago, ChatGPT introduced a memory feature that remembers details across conversations — and most users still aren’t aware of what it means and don’t realize the massive privacy and copyright risks it poses. Imagine sensitive client information or trade secrets bleeding across projects without your knowledge. … Read more
ChatGPT is receiving its second new search feature of the week, the company announced on Thursday. Dubbed ChatGPT Search, this tool will deliver real-time data from the internet in response to your chat prompts. ChatGPT Search appears to be both OpenAI’s answer to Perplexity and a shot across Google’s bow. “You can get fast, timely answers … Read more
A co-founder of China’s food delivery giant Meituan has returned to the company to lead its efforts in artificial intelligence (AI), as Big Tech firms rush to adopt the fast-developing technology in their operations, according to local media. Wang Huiwen, who stepped down last year as non-executive director and member of the nomination committee, will … Read more
Sam Altman-led OpenAI is in early talks with the California attorney general’s office to change its corporate structure in a bid to become a for-profit business, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI and a representative for the California Attorney General did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. A shift … Read more
Oppo last Friday pledged no less than 30 million yuan (US$4.2 million) in funding over the next five years to deepen collaborative efforts with PolyU on AI imaging technology, as well as for expanding the scale of co-training for PhD and postdoctoral researchers. “The research centre’s primary goal is to [nurture] talent,” Zhang Lei, chair … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding is scaling down its metaverse operations, according to a source familiar with the matter, making it the latest Big Tech company to pull back resources from the once-popular sector. Dozens of employees at Yuanjing, the metaverse unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba, have been laid off, as part of a restructuring that aims … Read more
You can now speak directly with ChatGPT right on your PC or Mac, thanks to a new Advanced Voice Mode integration, OpenAI announced on Wednesday. “Big day for desktops,” the company declared in an X (formerly Twitter) post. Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) runs atop the GPT-4o model, OpenAI’s current state of the art, and enables … Read more
