Customers walk past an Apple logo inside of an Apple store at Grand Central Station in New York, US. — Reuters Doubts emerged in the tech community following a sharp critique of Apple from prominent analyst John Gruber in his blog post titled, “Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino”. In the blog, Gruber … Read more
The DeepSeek logo is seen in this illustration taken on January 27, 2025. — Reuters Chinese AI startup DeepSeek introduced discounted off-peak pricing on Wednesday for developers looking to use its AI models to build their own products, its website showed, a move that could put pressure on rivals in China and overseas to cut … Read more
This representational image show the Meta logo displayed on a phone screen. — Reuters Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to launch an independent artificial intelligence app as it plans to expand it suite of standalone offerings which include social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, a report by CNBC revealed on Thursday. The report … Read more
This representational image shows an illustration of the WhatsApp logo. — Unsplash WhatsApp is set to enhance user experience with an exciting upcoming update featuring a dedicated Meta AI screen, making interactions with the chatbot even better and smoother. According to WABetaInfo, Meta’s popular instant-messaging app’s new Meta AI screen is set to be released in a … Read more
A man check his phone near an Apple logo outside its store in Shanghai, China September 13, 2023. — Reuters Apple said on Friday that some artificial intelligence improvements to its voice assistant Siri, originally slated for a 2025 release, will now be postponed until 2026. The tech giant revealed that it has been developing … Read more
Elderly people sit in a street during morning rush hour in Beijing, China. — Reuters/File China said on Sunday it will accelerate the use of artificial intelligence and big data in elderly and social care as it bets on new technologies to drive economic growth despite an ageing population. The announcement comes as officials grapple … Read more
A message reading “AI artificial intelligence”, a keyboard, and robot hands are seen in this illustration taken January 27, 2025. — Reuters Spain’s government has approved a bill imposing heavy fines on companies that fail to label content created using artificial intelligence (AI), in an effort to curb the spread of “deepfakes.” The bill aligns … Read more
Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s largest copper deposits in more than a decade. Now, another startup, Earth AI, exclusively told TechCrunch about its own discovery: promising deposits of critical minerals in parts of Australia that other mining outfits had ignored … Read more
A firefighter extinguishes a forest fire near the town of Manavgat, east of the resort city of Antalya, Turkey, July 30, 2021. — Reuters The first satellite of the innovative FireSat constellation, a collaborative project between Google and its partners, has been launched to change the face of wildfire detection and response using artificial intelligence technology. … Read more
Microsoft is introducing a “deep research” AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There’s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. Powering them are reasoning AI models, which posses the ability to think through problems and fact-check themselves — skills … Read more