Apple has quietly acquired another AI firm involved in reducing the size of Large Language Modules for the iPhone, this time Paris-based Datakaleb. Before moving to AI compression, Datakaleb worked extensively in AI-based image analysis Following news that Apple secretly bought the Canadian AI firm DarwinAI at the start of 2024, it has now been revealed that shortly before then, it acquired a Parisian company. French publication Challenges says it bought Datakaleb in December 2023. ...
Chinese firms are racing to set up factories in Mexico to bypass US tariffs and sanctions.
Chinese Nationals Charged With Conspiracy to Export US Technology Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice has arrested two Chinese nationals who allegedly plotted to export U.S. technology to advance the People’s Republic of China’s military operations. Han Li, 44, and Lin Chen, 64, have been charged with several counts of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), in addition to the Export Administration...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating new discoveries across industries, from video production to medicine -- and now, it's expanding what we know about antiquity. On Tuesday, researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy announced that they have successfully used AI to decipher a papyrus scroll found in Herculaneum, a town near Pompeii that was also destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The scroll is one of 1,800 scrolls preserved in the Villa of the Papyri -- once owned by...
Adobe has unveiled its new Photoshop app featuring updated generative AI tools with text-to-image capabilities for designers and photographers. Adobe supercharges iOS app with new AI-driven features Driven by the Adobe Firefly Image 3 Foundation Model, the new advancements announced on Tuesday, add generative AI features for creators to the Photoshop app. Functions such as Reference Image, Generate Image, Generate Similar, Generate Background, and Enhance Detail can streamline the...
A new rumor claims that Apple will use TSMC's 3nm technology for an AI server processor that it is designing alongside its iPhone and Mac chips. It's already known that TSMC has been developing 3 nanometer processors, and believed that Apple has bought out its entire production capacity for it. The presumption was that Apple would use the process for latest versions of its A-series iPhone chips, and M-series Mac ones. Now, however, a leaker named "Phone Chip Expert" on Chinese social...
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The ongoing revolution in artificial intelligence has the potential to dramatically improve our lives—from the way we work to what we do to stay healthy. Yet ensuring that America and other democracies can help shape the trajectory of this technology requires going beyond the tech development taking place at private companies. Research at universities drove…
Memory chip maker Micron Technology is set to get more than $6 billion in grants from the U.S. Commerce Department to help pay for domestic chip factory projects, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The award, which is not yet finalized, could be announced as soon as next week, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement that the largest private investment in American history is on its way to Central New York. New federal funding...
American Olympic athletes have a new place to get a college degrees after sports thanks to a partnership between U.S. Olympic leaders and education company Guild.
Artificial intelligence has been in the crosshairs of governments concerned about how it might be misused for fraud, disinformation and other malicious online activity; now in the U.K. a regulator is preparing to explore how AI is used in the fight against some of the same, specifically as it relates to content harmful to children. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
American Olympic athletes have a new place to turn to lock down college degrees and other skills for life after sports thanks to a partnership U.S. Olympic leaders unveiled with the Denver-based education company Guild.