Alphabet’s Google has announced plans to appeal a recent U.S. District Court decision that found the company guilty of anti-competitive practices in the digital advertising market. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google willfully acquired and maintained monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets, which are crucial for websites and online platforms…
OpenAI’s latest AI models, including o3 and o4-mini, have demonstrated a higher rate of hallucinations compared to their predecessors. In internal testing, o3 hallucinated 33% of the time on the PersonQA benchmark, doubling the hallucination rate of the earlier o1 model, which stood at 16% The o3 model tends to generate more claims overall, leading…
CMF by Nothing is set to launch the CMF Phone 2 Pro in India on April 28 at 6:30 PM IST. The smartphone will be powered by the newly announced MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro chipset. With powerful specs and gamer-friendly features, the CMF Phone 2 Pro is expected to compete strongly in the mid-range. CMF…
xAI Moves to Compete with ChatGPT and Gemini Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is steadily enhancing its Grok chatbot to match the capabilities of top AI players like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The latest step forward? A new “memory” feature that allows Grok to remember user-specific details from past conversations. How Grok’s Memory Works…
US Export Curbs Trigger Massive Charge Nvidia announced on Tuesday it will take a $5.5 billion charge after the U.S. imposed new restrictions on exports of its H20 AI chip to China. The H20 is Nvidia’s most advanced chip currently available for the Chinese market. Nvidia Shares Slide 6% Following the announcement, Nvidia’s stock dropped…
Increased Support to Counter Global Pressures SEOUL, April 15 (Reuters) – South Korea raised its support package for the semiconductor industry to 33 trillion won ($23.25 billion). That’s up from 26 trillion won announced last year — a 25% increase. The move comes amid uncertainty over U.S. trade policy and growing competition from China, the…
President Donald Trump announced that new tariffs on imported semiconductors will be revealed within the next week, with additional duties on smartphones, computers, and other electronics expected to follow in the coming months. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump stated that flexibility will be granted to certain companies but emphasized the need to…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 – Alphabet and Nvidia have invested in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, according to a source familiar with the matter. SSI, just months old, has quickly risen to prominence in the AI space and was recently valued at $32 billion in a funding…
AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading labs are playing a growing role in assisting with software development. Google CEO Sundar Pichai noted in October that 25% of the company’s new code is now AI-generated, while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed ambitions to deploy AI coding tools widely across the company. However, despite…
Morocco’s social security agency has confirmed that a large volume of personal data was stolen in a cyberattack earlier this week, with sensitive information later leaked on the messaging platform Telegram. The agency, which oversees pensions and insurance benefits for millions of private sector workers—ranging from factory employees to corporate executives—said initial investigations point to…
