Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
SHANGHAI, Nov 16, 2023 (AFP) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday it was cancelling a planned cloud service spinoff announced this year over US chip restrictions, as it reported results for the third quarter of 2023 that were in line with market expectations. The company saw a 9 percent year-on-year increase in Q3 revenue, it said Thursday, following several difficult years and despite a broader economic slowdown. “Alibaba Group delivered a solid quarter, marked […]
Images of faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) can now appear more real than pictures of real people — as long as they are white, a study said on Monday. AI is now so good at depicting white people that the images are “hyper-real”, said the report in the journal Psychological Science. But AI tends to depict people of other ethnicities with white features because the data used to train the algorithms is biased, said […]
South Korean smartphone giant Samsung Electronics will roll out a real-time translation service on calls using AI technology next year, a company representative told AFP on Friday. Samsung is the world’s largest smartphone maker accounting for a fifth of global sales between July and September, as Apple trails in second with 16 percent of the market, according to market tracker Counterpoint. The new real-time translation feature will be incorporated into Samsung’s new Galaxy flagship model, […]
Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut who led the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon, has died at the age of 95, the US space agency said Thursday. He passed away on November 7 in Billings, Montana. “Today we remember one of NASA’s best,” said the agency’s administrator Bill Nelson, in a statement. “His lifelong love for aviation and exploration was only surpassed by his love for his wife Susan.” […]
Elon Musk on Saturday unveiled details of his new AI tool called “Grok,” which can access X in real time and will be initially available to the social media platform’s top tier of subscribers. Musk, the tycoon behind Tesla and SpaceX, said the link-up with X, formerly known as Twitter, is “a massive advantage over other models” of generative AI. Grok “loves sarcasm. I have no idea who could have guided it this way,” Musk […]
By Julie JAMMOT SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – Whether they sell smartphones, ads or computer chips, the heavyweights of Silicon Valley have everything to prove to investors looking to see who is best placed in the race to dominate the generative artificial intelligence market. “If you’re a company, and you don’t have an AI message, you’re not going to be in business very long,” says independent industry analyst Jack Gold. “Everyone is focused […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 4, 2023 (AFP) – Elon Musk on Saturday unveiled details of his new AI tool called “Grok,” which can access X in real time and will be initially available to the social media platform’s top tier of subscribers. Musk, the tycoon behind Tesla and SpaceX, said the link-up with X, formerly known as Twitter, is “a massive advantage over other models” of generative AI. Grok “loves sarcasm. I have no idea who […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 2, 2023 (AFP) – YouTube on Thursday said it tweaked its recommendation system in the United States to prevent teens from bingeing on videos idealizing certain body types. The move comes about a week after dozens of US states accused Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting “from children’s pain,” damaging their mental health and misleading people about the safety of its platforms. YouTube’s video recommendation engine has been targeted over time […]
By Stuart GRAHAM, Helen ROWE LONDON, Nov 2, 2023 (AFP) – A new Beatles song produced with a little help from artificial intelligence and including the vocals of John Lennon was released on Thursday — to lukewarm reviews. The song comes more than four decades after it was originally recorded as a demo, but despite the hype left critics distinctly underwhelmed. “‘Now and Then’ is not terrible… But ultimately, it’s kind of mundane,” wrote Geoff […]
By Thomas URBAIN NEW YORK, Nov 3, 2023 (AFP) – Sam Bankman-Fried, the one-time cryptocurrency golden boy accused by US prosecutors of stealing billions of dollars of his customers’ money, was found guilty on Thursday on all counts, and now faces up to 110 years behind bars. Following five weeks of trial in New York, the jury reached its decision in just five hours. Sentencing for man widely known as “SBF” will take place at […]
By Kang Jin-kyu SEOUL, Oct 31, 2023 (AFP) – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that its operating profits for the July to September period were down nearly 80 percent, but forecast that a prolonged slump in the memory chip market was coming to an end. The firm is the flagship subsidiary of Samsung Group, by far the largest of the family-controlled conglomerates that dominate business in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Samsung announced third-quarter operating profits […]
Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth on Tuesday after five months in orbit at the country’s space station, state media reported. Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao touched down at China’s Dongfeng landing site at 8:11 am (0011 GMT), according to state broadcaster CCTV. Footage showed their return capsule parachuting down into the barren Gobi Desert, kicking up a cloud of orange dust as it hit the ground. “On-site medical supervision and insurance […]
