After more than a decade of leaving Big Tech largely to itself, US antitrust enforcers have cranked up the heat, with several high-profile cases underway that could radically change the way the industry's giants do business.Launched under both the Trump and Biden administrations, five major cases from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are moving forward against major US technology companies -- including two against Google that could see the company split...
The UK’s competition regulator has warned that a small number of powerful tech firms have the potential to use their size to dominate the AI market. Speaking at a conference in Washington DC, Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), noted the growing presence in the AI foundation model market of […]
CMA points to "interconnected web" involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon.
Tech companies are quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens, giving rise to a hidden trade in everything from chat logs to long forgotten personal photos from faded social media apps
During a Meta event, Nick Clegg also revealed that Llama 3, Meta's newest large language model (LLM), will be released within a month.
In this week’s Digiday+ Research Briefing, we examine BuzzFeed’s plans to pivot the business to an AI-driven tech and media company, how marketers’ use of X and ad spending has dropped dramatically, and how agency executives are fed up with Meta’s ad platform bugs and overcharges, as seen in recent data from Digiday+ Research.
Google has upped the ante in the cloud race against Amazon and Microsoft with its custom-designed AI chip, Axion. This move signifies the search giant's continued push to redefine the boundaries of computing. At its recent Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, Google unveiled a custom-built ARM-based server chip to make cloud computing more affordable. The chip, expected later in 2024, aims to bring cloud computing within reach of budget-conscious users."Axion delivers industry-leading performance...
On the forefront of recent discussions surrounding fair training practices for AI companies, Soundtrack Loops — with its diverse portfolio of assets — aims to ‘kickstart a shift into more widespread ethical AI training practices.’ Moreover, the company’s founders believe their catalog ‘presents an enormous opportunity for AI generation of incidental music.’ As music IP […]
Experts say tech outages do seem to be happening more often.
As tensions continue to rise in the South China Sea, I had the chance to watch an enlightening interview sent to me by my good friend Professor Rommel Banlaoi, president of Philippine Society for International Security Studies in a show called Dialogue on CGTN.
If you are looking to get started using Gemini, the latest artificial intelligent (AI) powered chatbot specifically created by Google to transform the way you work, research and search . Google Gemini provides a wealth of useful AI tools and instant assistance across a wide range of tasks, from managing emails and planning trips to […]
Meta released the first two versions of its Llama 3 large language model on Thursday. The technology powers Meta AI and the company says the new models have improved reasoning and code generation.