Nvidia's Jensen Huang now worth R853 billion (not including his leather jackets)
Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer Jensen Huang grew as much as $4.2 billion (R77.7 billion) richer after the company’s latest earnings and forecast beat estimates.
The shares surged as much as 10% in...
YouTube will test out AI music with Universal and artists
YouTube is partnering with Universal Music Group and a number of artists, including singer Rosanne Cash and producer Don Was, to experiment with artificial intelligence in the music business.
The newly formed Music AI Incubator, which...
Nvidia shares jump ahead of expected positive results
Nvidia Corp. shares soared on Monday as more analysts raised their price targets on the stock, a sign of growing optimism about the chipmaker’s highly anticipated results later this week.
The average price target for the stock has been...
How hackers are making AI models bad at math
Kennedy Mays has just tricked a large language model. It took some coaxing, but she managed to convince an algorithm to say 9 + 10 = 21.
“It was a back-and-forth conversation,” said the 21-year-old student from Savannah, Georgia.
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Nvidia announces Grace Hopper Superchip to assert its AI dominance
Nvidia Corp. announced an updated AI processor that gives a jolt to the chip’s capacity and speed, seeking to cement the company’s dominance in a burgeoning market.
The Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination graphics chip and...
AMD shares pumped after reporting solid sales and profit
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gained in late trading after the chipmaker topped second-quarter estimates and touted inroads in artificial intelligence computing, putting it in closer competition with Nvidia Corp.
Sales and profit both...
Uber adding AI chatbot to app
Uber Technologies Inc. is developing an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to integrate into its app, joining the long list of companies that are turning to the language tool to improve customer service, marketing and other automated tasks.
“We’re working on...
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google will pledge to implement AI safeguards
Leading US artificial intelligence companies are set to publicly commit Friday to safeguards for the technology at the White House’s request, according to people familiar with the plans.
Companies including Microsoft Corp...
Meta makes Llama 2 available to commercial customers on Azure and AWS
Meta Platforms Inc. is making its artificial intelligence large language model, Llama 2, available for commercial use through partnerships with major cloud providers including Microsoft Corp.
Meta isn’t charging for access...
Even Wall Street's best estimates could not predict Microsoft's 2023 surge
Microsoft Corp. is one of the most-loved stocks on Wall Street, but even the wildly positive views surrounding the software giant haven’t been able to keep up with a rally that has already topped 50% this year.
On...
Microsoft 365 Copilot price for business customers revealed
Microsoft Corp. said new corporate artificial intelligence tools that work with Office software, called Microsoft 365 Copilot, will cost $30 (R537) per user per month on top of what most business customers already pay.
Microsoft has...
FTC probing OpenAI over personal data usage
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI Inc., questioning whether its popular ChatGPT conversational AI bot puts consumers’ reputations and data at risk, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The probe into...
Hollywood actors go on strike over video streaming service payments and potential for studios to create AI "clones"
For the first time in six decades, Hollywood writers and actors are on strike at the same time — a cataclysm for hundreds of thousands of film and TV workers already idled by the...
Elon Musk officially launches AI company to "understand the true nature of the universe"
Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, announced the formation of what he’s calling xAI, a company with a mission...
Google loses last of 8 key AI researchers that wrote groundbreaking paper
An artificial intelligence researcher who co-authored one of Google’s most influential papers in the field is leaving the company to launch a startup.
Llion Jones, who helped write the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is...
Elon Musk heaps praise on China's AI developments
Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk reaffirmed his vision of a robot-fueled future, calling for more regulatory oversight of artificial intelligence at a high-profile Chinese government-backed conference Thursday.
The billionaire entrepreneur...
ChatGPT creator sued for "stealing" private information
ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit seeking class-action status...
Google Shopping adds generative AI
Google is bringing generative AI technology to shopping, aiming to get a jump on e-commerce sites like Amazon.com Inc.
The Alphabet Inc.-owned company announced features Wednesday aimed at helping people understand how apparel will fit on them, no matter...
AMD provides first-look at AI chip to rival Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. showcased its upcoming line of artificial intelligence processors, aiming to help data centres handle a crush of AI traffic and challenge Nvidia Corp.’s dominance in the burgeoning market.
The company’s Instinct...
OpenAI's Sam Altman calls on China to help regulate AI
China should play a key role in shaping the artificial intelligence guardrails needed to ensure the safety of transformative new systems, OpenAI Inc.’s chief executive officer Sam Altman said.
“With the emergence of the increasingly...