Nvidia in talks with Elon Musk about investing in xAI: source

Nvidia in talks with Elon Musk about investing in xAI: source

Chipmaking giant Nvidia is in talks with Elon Musk about investing in his fast-growing artificial intelligence startup xAI, a source close to the situation said. XAI — which powers the snarky Grok chatbot on Musk’s X social network — is in talks with some investors about raising several billion dollars at a roughly $40 billion … Read more

Opinion | Cut the spiel, diners eat out for the meal. If chefs must tell a story, keep it simple

Opinion | Cut the spiel, diners eat out for the meal. If chefs must tell a story, keep it simple

The best restaurant in the US state of Texas is purported to be one called Ethos. Its Instagram account has 81,000 followers and features a highly curated feed of elaborate dishes peppered with trending hashtags. Its website is crafted with the haughty minimalism common among contemporary restaurants, and there are quite a few words on … Read more

Microsoft’s quarterly sales up 16% to $65.6 billion as investors ask if AI spending worth it

Microsoft’s quarterly sales up 16% to .6 billion as investors ask if AI spending worth it

Microsoft on Wednesday reported its quarterly sales grew 16 per cent to US$65.6 billion as the company sought to assure investors its huge spending on artificial intelligence is paying off. The company has spent billions of dollars to expand its global network of data centres and other physical infrastructure required to develop AI technology that … Read more

Learn AI like a pro: UG courses on Artificial Intelligence by IITs that prospective engineering aspirants can consider

Learn AI like a pro: UG courses on Artificial Intelligence by IITs that prospective engineering aspirants can consider

As 2024 slowly comes to an end, the world continues to witness a meteoric rise in technological tools, particularly artificial intelligence, or AI in common parlance. From educational institutions to government bodies, almost every sector is deploying the power of AI in their operations. Check the courses on artificial intelligence offered by IITs that all … Read more

How to enable ChatGPT superpowers for Siri in iOS 18

How to enable ChatGPT superpowers for Siri in iOS 18

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends Ever since Apple announced the AI stack known as Apple Intelligence earlier this year, one of the most highly anticipated features has been the ChatGPT-Siri camaraderie. In a nutshell, the queries presented to Siri will be offloaded to ChatGPT if it can’t provide a satisfactory answer. Or to put it … Read more

GPT-5: everything we know about OpenAI’s next frontier model

GPT-5: everything we know about OpenAI’s next frontier model

There’s perhaps no product more hotly anticipated in tech right now than GPT-5. Rumors about it have been circulating ever since the release of GPT-4, OpenAI’s groundbreaking foundational model that’s been the basis of everything the company has launched over the past year, such as GPT-4o, Advanced Voice Mode, and the OpenAI o1-preview. Those are … Read more

The best AI chatbots: ChatGPT, Gemini, and more

The best AI chatbots: ChatGPT, Gemini, and more

The idea of chatbots has been around since the early days of the internet. But even compared to popular voice assistants like Siri, the generated chatbots of the modern era are far more powerful. Yes, you can converse with them in natural language. But these AI chatbots can generate text of all kinds, from poetry … Read more

Thom Yorke among thousands of artists to issue AI protest

Thom Yorke among thousands of artists to issue AI protest

Leading actors, authors, musicians, and novelists are among 11,500 artists to have put their name to a statement calling for a halt to the unlicensed use of creative works to train generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, describing it as a “threat” to the livelihoods of creators. The open letter, comprising just 29 words, says: … Read more

Tech war: China advocates use of local AI chips over those from US powerhouse Nvidia

Tech war: China advocates use of local AI chips over those from US powerhouse Nvidia

Chinese authorities have informally advised local companies to use domestic-made artificial intelligence (AI) chips over those from Nvidia, according to two sources familiar with the matter, as alternative suppliers on the mainland look to catch up with the US tech giant. While there is no official ban on Nvidia’s China-tailored H20 graphics processing unit (GPU), … Read more