Cloudflare’s 2024 internet traffic report highlights a 17.2% global increase in traffic, with Google maintaining its position as the most visited service and the U.S. responsible for 34.6% of bot traffic. One surprise (or perhaps not) is that IPv6 traffic is actually down as a percentage of the packets that Read more…
Amazon on Tuesday said it is piloting a quick commerce service in India that will see the U.S. tech giant delivering grocery and other items in 15 minutes or less. […] The quick-commerce model — delivering items to customers within 10 to 15 minutes — hasn’t worked in most parts Read more…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts conversational AI will become the primary way people interact with technology, replacing traditional web browsers and search engines within the next few years. Suleyman, who oversees Microsoft’s consumer AI products including Bing and Copilot, called current search interfaces “completely broken” and “a total pain,” Read more…
Google has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum error correction that could enable practical quantum computers by 2030, the company announced in a paper published Monday in Nature. The research demonstrated significant error reduction when scaling up from 3×3 to 7×7 grids of quantum bits, with errors dropping by half Read more…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI released its AI-generated video tool called Sora for general use by its paying customers Monday. The company then said it would do wide testing with creatives and red-teaming with security experts before its release to the public. “We don’t want the world to just be text,” OpenAI Read more…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs), as xAI races to compete against rivals like OpenAI. The move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train Read more…
People working in the music sector will lose almost a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence within the next four years, according to the first global economic study examining the impact of the emerging technology on human creativity. Those working in the audiovisual sector will also see their income Read more…