The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has become “awkward” due to tension and confusion. Ars Technica reports: Not only has this tension and confusion extended to Microsoft’s internal AI team — which apparently is dealing with budget cuts and limited access to OpenAI technology — but sources said it also Read more…
Because of their intrinsic ability to consider many possibilities at once, quantum computers do not have to be very large to tackle certain prickly problems of computation, and on Wednesday, IBM researchers announced that they had devised a method to manage the unreliability in a way that would lead to Read more…
Google is bringing generative AI technology to shopping, aiming to get a jump on e-commerce sites like Amazon. The Alphabet-owned company announced features Wednesday aimed at helping people understand how apparel will fit on them, no matter their body size, and added capabilities for finding products using its search and Read more…
The upcoming Apple TV+ show “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” based on Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise, is reportedly being shot in 3D format to support Apple’s Vision Pro headset. If true, it would be the first confirmed TV+ show to support the 3D video-viewing capabilities of the headset, which offers a wide Read more…
Zume, a Silicon Valley-based robotic pizza-making and delivery startup, has shut down and is liquidating its assets. From a report: The company had raised $445 million in venture capital funding, including $375 million from SoftBank in 2018 at a $2.25 billion valuation. That’s a whole lotta pepperoni. And cheese, which Read more…
Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced at London Tech Week on Monday. The priority access will be granted in order “to help build better evaluations and help us better Read more…
Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view online to Microsoft. Edge has a built-in image enhancement Read more…