Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize winner and cofounder and CEO, Google DeepMind Google DeepMind CEO and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis says he would still prioritize STEM subjects if he were a student today, despite artificial intelligence’s rapid transformation of the job market. Speaking at SXSW London on Monday, Hassabis emphasized that understanding mathematical and scientific fundamentals […]
WASHINGTON: Google on Friday urged a US judge to reject the notion of making it spin off its Chrome browser to weaken its dominance in online search.Rival attorneys made their final arguments before US District Court Judge Amit Mehta, who is considering “remedies” to impose after making a landmark decision last year that Google maintained […]
Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, announced at the Google I/O developer conference recently that the research lab is less than 10 years away from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), the ultimate goal of the ongoing generative AI arms race. Speaking live, Hassabis emphasized the transformative potential of […]
Shankar Mahadevan appears poised to lead a new era in the music industry with AI. The singer recently teamed up with Google to develop the Lyria AI music generator tool and composed a song using it. Shankar Mahadevan composes a song using Google’s AI generated music tool; says, “It is such an inspiring tool” Shankar […]
Recent Google Maps images show what appears to be China’s nuclear submarine base near Qingdao, with at least six nuclear-powered subs docked, raising new concerns about Beijing’s growing military threat in the region. The photographs, taken from Google Maps, show six nuclear-powered submarines stationed at the so-called First Submarine Base, about 18km east of Qingdao […]
US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his commitment to revitalising American manufacturing, proposing steep tariffs to push companies into producing goods domestically. This means challenges for tech giants like Apple, Dell and others who have huge manufacturing set-ups in China. Though over the past few years, Apple has moved some of its supply […]
Ghibli style art has taken over the internet this past week. Everyone has been transforming their personal pictures into the iconic art style created by Hayao Miyazaki, who’s known for his animated masterpieces like “Spirited Away,” “The Boy and the Heron,” “The Wind Rises,” and more. This artistic trend showcases the distinctive visual elements that […]
More than 400 Hollywood celebrities, including the Severance director and Zoolander actor Ben Stiller, actor Mark Ruffalo, and singer-songwriter Paul McCartney, have submitted an open letter to the President Donald Trump administration opposing efforts by OpenAI and Google to weaken copyright protections for artificial intelligence (AI) training.The letter, sent to the White House Office of […]
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has praised tech industry leaders Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and even Larry Page, as among the smartest people he knows. “Larry Ellison is very smart,” Musk said on the “Verdict” podcast hosted by Senator Ted Cruz, referring to the Oracle cofounder. “I will say Larry Ellison is one of […]
