AI gives global stocks a lift, dollar mixed
Investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence helped lift Wall Street Thursday as Microsoft surfed a tech wave to pass $4 trillion in market value even as traders weighed Federal Reserve rates caution...
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Urgent need for global approach on AI regulation: UN
The world urgently needs to find a global approach on regulating artificial intelligence, the United Nations鈥� top tech chief said this week, warning that fragmentation could deepen risks and inequalities...
Use of AI in medical science inevitable: BMU VC
Bangladesh Medical University vice-chancellor Professor Dr Md Shahinul Alam at a seminar in Dhaka on Monday said that the use of artificial intelligence in medical science was inevitable...
Jensen Huang, AI visionary clad in leather jacket
Unknown to the general public just three years ago, Jensen Huang is now one of the most powerful entrepreneurs in the world as head of chip giant Nvidia...
Tech giants scramble to meet AI鈥檚 looming energy crisis
The artificial intelligence industry is scrambling to reduce its massive energy consumption through better cooling systems, more efficient computer chips, and smarter programming 鈥� all while AI usage explodes worldwide...
Malaysia clamps down on export, transit
Malaysia clamped down Monday on the export, transshipment and transit of all US-made artificial intelligence chips, seeking to stop illegal trade to countries including China...
Discussion for making youths prepared for AI challenges
Speakers at a discussion on Saturday urged the government to equip youths with the skills necessary to explore the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence as well as tackle the challenges it posed, said a press release...
Can Kenya attract outsourcing jobs of the AI future?
In a leafy Nairobi suburb, a Kenyan firm helps foreigners track shoplifters, monitor lung damage from Covid-19 and identify whales 鈥� tapping into the outsourcing market鈥檚 artificial intelligence-boosted boom.
AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands
Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds...
AI robots fill in for weed killers, farm labourers
As US farms face labour shortage and weeds grow resistant to herbicides, startup Aigen says its robot can save farmers money, help the environment and keep harmful chemicals out of food...
Intelligence before AI
IN A world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, we find ourselves captivated by machines that emulate what we call 鈥榠ntelligence鈥�. But before we marvel at neural nets and language models, we must ask: whose intelligence are we referring to when we use the term? The rise of AI, paradoxically, urges us to reflect not just on technology, but on what...
Meta鈥檚 AI talent war raises questions about strategy
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are spending billions to recruit top artificial intelligence talent, triggering debates about whether the aggressive hiring spree will pay off in the competitive generative AI race...
AI learning to lie, scheme, threaten creators
The world鈥檚 most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviours - lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.
The vanishing mind
ONCE the pinnacle of evolutionary achievement, the human brain is now experiencing an unprecedented decline in its cognitive and analytical capabilities. What began as a gradual erosion with the rise of social media has accelerated into a cognitive crisis with the integration of artificial intelligence into our educational systems. Recent ground-breaking research...
Pope warns of AI risks to young brains
Pope Leo XIV warned on Friday of the potential consequences of artificial intelligence on the intellectual development of young people, saying it could damage their grip on reality.
Big tech on a quest for ideal AI device
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has enlisted the legendary designer behind the iPhone to create an irresistible gadget for using generative artificial intelligence or AI...
Google turns queries into conversations
Google on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial intelligence providing spoken summaries of query results...
Machines may generate, only people can mean
NOT long ago, artificial intelligence made headlines for what many described as a creative breakthrough. OpenAI鈥檚 GPT-4 ranked in the top one per cent on standardised creative thinking assessments 鈥� those same tests used to measure human originality and problem-solving. Around the same time, an Artifical Intelligence generated song that mimicked the...
Tackling AI-generated crimes
AS BANGLADESH moves towards a digitally advanced society, it must prepare to face the growing threat of artificial intelligence-driven crimes. Artificial intelligence can help crime in various ways such as generating deepfake videos, fake audio clips and doctored screenshots, creating convincing phishing messages, automating online scams, hacking into secure...
Bill Gates says AI key for health, education innovation
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said artificial intelligence will play a key role in unlocking new tools for health, education and agriculture at a meeting with Indonesia鈥檚 president on Wednesday...
VOICE hosts webinar on AI, future of journalism
Speakers at an event on Saturday urged the government to publish an update on the National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2024 and finalise it through a consultative process...
German industry grapples with AI at trade fair
Artificial intelligence is set to bring sweeping change to modern life, but at an industrial fair in Germany many companies wonder how they fit into the tech revolution.
Meta's head of AI research stepping down
The head of Meta's artificial intelligence research division said she plans to step down, vacating a high-profile position at a time of intense competition in the development of AI technology...
Computer pioneer Microsoft turns 50 in the age of AI
Microsoft has been at the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a tech stalwart almost taken for granted as lifestyles embraced the internet....
Google to buy cybersecurity company Wiz for $32b
Google said Tuesday it will acquire cloud security platform Wiz for $32 billion, citing the need for greater cybersecurity capacity as artificial intelligence embeds itself in technology infrastructure...
Samsung needs 鈥榙o-or-die鈥� mindset to survive AI challenges: Yonhap
Samsung Electronics must adopt a 鈥榙o-or-die鈥� mindset, its chairman told executives, to confront the challenges posed by artificial intelligence that are upending the industry, Yonhap news reported Monday...
Baidu releases AI model to compete with DeepSeek
Chinese internet search giant Baidu released a new artificial intelligence reasoning model Sunday and made its AI chatbot services free to consumers as ferocious competition grips the sector...
Investors having hard time trying to keep up with AI
Two years into the generative artificial intelligence, GenAI, era, it鈥檚 harder than ever for venture capitalists to spot winners in a rapidly changing competitive landscape.
Alibaba to invest $50b in AI, cloud
Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Monday it will spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing over the next three years, a week after co-founder Jack Ma was seen meeting president Xi Jinping...
BITAC holds seminar on AI
The Bangladesh Industrial and Technical Assistance Center, with the supports of GOTT SDN BHD, Malaysia and MICRO MAX Technologies Limited Bangladesh, held a seminar on Artificial Intelligence to face the Fourth Industrial Revolution at the BITAC building in Dhaka on Saturday...