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Financial Times: Chinese city governments are offering “computing vouchers”, worth $140K to $280K, to AI startups, to help create a level playing field with China’s tech giants  —  Chinese tech giants are hogging scarce cloud resources to develop generative AI models as US restrictions bite Source link

Microsoft unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool called Copilot for Finance on Thursday, aiming to help financial professionals easily navigate everyday mundane tasks. The Copilot tool is not a new AI model, and instead builds on the existing Copilot for Microsoft 365 stack to bring new features specific to financial operations. It is an

Wall Street Journal: Last week a US judge acquitted China’s Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit in the DOJ’s Micron trade secrets case, months after Micron changed its posture on China  —  Verdict is regarded as a setback in efforts to contain Chinese corporate theft  —  U.S. officials across the political spectrum … Source link

Flipkart launched the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) service in collaboration with Axis Bank. The Flipkart UPI service will be initially available for Android users and can be used for online and offline payments. With the latest update, customers can now pay bills and make fund transfers directly from the Flipkart app. Flipkart UPI would compete

Ryan Browne / CNBC: As work continues on 6G standards, telcos are talking about 5.5G, or 5G Advanced, which brings faster upload speeds, network slicing, enhanced positioning, more  —  – Telecom operators haven’t yet finished rolling out 5G mobile internet.  They’re already talking about building “5.5G,” or “5G Advanced.” Source link

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, introduced its first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered text-to-video generation model Sora on Thursday. The company claims it can generate up to 60-second-long videos. This is longer than any of its competitors in the segment, including Google’s Lumiere, which was unveiled last month. Sora is currently available to red teamers, cybersecurity experts

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: A look at Microsoft Office assistant Clippy, which was seen as a corporate gaffe but has remained one of Microsoft’s most recognizable brands over two decades  —  The virtual assistant, an animated paper clip, was seen as an epic corporate gaffe.  Now it’s having a moment. Source link

Apple will face a European Union fine close to EUR 500 million ($539 million or roughly Rs. 4,475 crore) over the regulator’s investigation into allegations it silenced music-streaming rivals, including Spotify Technology SA, on its platforms.  The penalty — Apple’s first ever from the bloc — will be set after the EU watchdog found that

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WhatsApp has been spotted working on an improvement to the Chat Lock feature that is reportedly in development on the web version of the popular messaging application. Users can already lock specific chats on WhatsApp for iOS and Android that are hidden behind a secret code — a feature that can improve the privacy of