While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of people using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents to answer their questions, write their proposals, and draw pictures, a London startup called Basecamp Research has raised $ 60 million to tackle a new frontier: an AI that not only answer any question […]
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper scoop Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold
It has been a big week for Nobel Prizes in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners for 2024, with DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Director John Jumper sharing one-half of the prize, alongside David Baker who is head of the Institute for […]
OpenAI to open offices in Singapore, Paris, Brussels to facilitate global expansion
OpenAI said in a post on X that it is opening new offices in multiple cities, including NYC, Seattle, Paris, Brussels, and Singapore, in addition to its existing locations in San Francisco, London, Dublin and Tokyo, as part of the company’s global expansion efforts. The expansion effort follows the San Francisco-based ChatGPT maker’s whopping $ […]
US government considers historic break-up of Google in antitrust case
The U.S. Justice Department has put forth a sweeping proposal to force Google to sell off parts of its business, potentially leading to the first major corporate breakup in four decades and reshaping one of the world’s most valuable tech companies. The Department of Justice and a coalition of state attorneys general on Tuesday submitted […]
Meta is testing a feature to let you post Instagram Reels directly on Threads
Since its inception, Meta’s Threads has tried to leverage the network effects of its other social networks Facebook and Instagram by experimenting with cross-posting and highlighting Threads posts on a carousel. Now, the company is testing a new feature that will let you share Instagram Reels directly to Threads. App researcher Alessandro Paluzzi found that […]