Alphabet’s Google and US antitrust enforcers will make their final arguments on whether the tech giant should be forced to sell its Chrome browser or adopt other measures to restore competition in online search, as the blockbuster antitrust trial concludes on Friday. The US Department of Justice and a coalition of states are pressing to
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft’s first US union contract — Vietnam’s AI Ambitions Hinge on One $6.8 Billion Tech Company … Explainers Source link
The Uttarakhand government has cracked down on fake websites involved in helicopter ticket booking scams. Cybercriminals are targeting people during the Kedarnath Yatra, a pilgrimage to the Kedarnath Temple that is part of the Chota Char Dham Yatra. According to a report, fraudsters have created fake ticket booking websites and are advertising them via social
Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News: Nvidia reported record gaming revenue of $3.76B in Q1, up 42% YoY, driven by sales of its Blackwell chips that are used to enhance game graphics through DLSS — Nvidia’s former cash cow posted record sales in the first quarter, carrying the company to a sales beat. Source link
Tencent released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday that can animate still portrait images. Dubbed HunyuanPortrait, the large language model (LLM) is based on the diffusion architecture, and can generate videos with realistic animation based on a reference image and a guiding video. The researchers behind the project highlighted that the model can
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters: The US Department of Energy says its Doudna supercomputer, due in 2026, will use Nvidia’s latest Vera Rubin chips built into liquid-cooled servers by Dell — The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday said its “Doudna” due in 2026 will use technology from Nvidia and Dell. Source link
Unless you live under a rock or abstain from social media and Internet pop culture entirely, you must have at least heard of the Ghibli trend, if not seen the thousands of images flooding popular social platforms. In the last couple of weeks, millions of individuals have used OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to turn
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AI-orchestrated digital workspace — Work is no longer confined to one place, one app, or even one screen. With so many tasks and applications, we juggle between chats, meetings, tasks, documents, and dashboards, all while trying to stay productive. Source link
ByteDance released a new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. Dubbed Bagel, it is a visual language model (VLM), which is capable of understanding, generating, and editing images. The Beijing-based tech giant has open-sourced the AI model, and it is available to download via popular AI repositories such as GitHub and Hugging Face. The
Ina Fried / Axios: Memo: Meta reorganizes its AI teams into an AI products team and AGI Foundations; FAIR remains separate but one specific FAIR team is moving to AGI Foundations — Meta is restructuring its AI teams to speed up the rollout of new products and features, Axios has learned. Source link