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.
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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...
US should keep off misleading remark, India smear campaign
THE US director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard鈥檚 saying in an interview with India鈥檚 NDTV World on March 17 鈥� now owned by the Adani Group alleged to be fuelling the hinduvta agenda of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of India鈥檚 ruling Bharatiya Janata Party 鈥� that the United States is deeply concerned about the situation in Bangladesh...
Tulsi Gabbard鈥檚 misguided accusations
TULSI Gabbard, the newly appointed US Director of National Intelligence, has recently made inflammatory and baseless remarks regarding the treatment of religious minorities in Bangladesh. In an interview with NDTV, she alleged that religious minorities in Bangladesh face systemic persecution and killings, linking the situation to the ideology of an...
Tulsi鈥檚 comment will not impact Bangladesh-US ties: adviser
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that the recent statement by US Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard would not make any impact on the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and the US...
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...
Private univ law needs to be changed
THE Private University Act 1992 was amended in 2010 to make it contemporary. None of the 53 sections of the amended law has a single word on academic and intellectual freedom in higher education or the university鈥檚 autonomy. Rather, various sections have been made to keep universities under the strict surveillance of the University Grants Commission through...
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.
Bangladesh commission searches for enforced disappearance victims in Indian jails
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforce Disappearance on Tuesday said that their investigation was underway to know whether there was any victim of enforced disappearance in the list of 1,067 Bangladeshis detained in Indian jails in the past two and a half years.
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...
2024 GENERAL POLLS: Intelligence agencies collecting info about DCs served as ROs, says secy
Intelligence agencies are currently gleaning information about the deputy commissioners who served as returning officers in the 2024 general election, said senior secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration Mokhlesur Rahman on Sunday.
Attack on bookstall: Revisiting the Taslima Nasrin affair
IN 2009-2010, I was on research leave from the University of Dhaka to do a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I was going to work on a project titled 鈥楩rom Rokeya to Taslima: Trends in Muslim Feminism in South Asia鈥� 鈥� a topic related to my doctoral research completed at the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2007 under the supervision of...
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...
DeepSeek: rewriting AI rulebook
DEEPSEEK has emerged with the quiet force of a tidal shift, unsettling an Artificial Intelligence landscape long dominated by western giants. In just two years, this upstart has positioned itself as a formidable player in the open-source AI revolution 鈥� not with bombast, but with results. Its agility, efficiency, and raw computational power rival, if not...
Top researcher blasts 'nonsense' of superhuman AI
Efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) that could solve all the world's problems at a stroke are 鈥榥onsense鈥�, leading researcher Michael Jordan told scientists in Paris ahead of next week's global AI summit.
Banglalink elevates efficiency with PI Works
Banglalink has adopted PI Works鈥� predictive energy saving (PES) module integrated with self-organising networks (SON) capabilities to integrate artificial intelligence/machine learning into its engineering processes, said a press release...
UGC to establish cell to protect intellectual property rights in research, innovation
Member of the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, Professor Masuma Habib, at a workshop in Dhaka on Tuesday said that the UGC would take initiatives to protect the intellectual property rights of university teachers in research and innovation...
Integration of technology crucial for transforming education sector:聽 Wahiduddin
Education and planning ministries adviser Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud at a dialogue on Tuesday said that the integration of technology, particularly artificial intelligence, was crucial for transforming the education sector in the country...
AI strategy for Bangladesh
ARGUABLY, all socio-economic development has been driven by Intellectual Property and Operating System. When IP touches masses it morphs into OS in a transformative way 鈥� OS changes and touches lives on a global scale. OS opens the door for many new IP and fosters innovations and creativity for the masses, improving quality of life and creating...
Covid more likely to have leaked from lab: CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was 鈥榤ore likely鈥� leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals....
Education for 4IR-ready work force
BANGLADESH is at a crossroads. As the world braces for the seismic shifts brought on by the fourth industrial revolution, a question looms large: will our workforce be ready? The 4IR, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, big data, blockchain, and biotechnology, is rapidly transforming industries, economies, and...
S Alam Group financial crimes, aides shouldn鈥檛 go unpunished
THE shocking extent of financial crimes of the S Alam Group is evident in the recent disclosure of the amount of loans that the group has taken out from 10 banks and a non-bank financial institution. The Financial Intelligence Unit reveals that the group had taken a staggering Tk 2.25 lakh crore, or $16.6 billion, from these institutions. About 44 per cent, or...
NBR raids ex-IGP Benazir鈥檚 resort in Gopalganj
The National Board of Revenue鈥檚 central intelligence cell on Tuesday raided former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed鈥檚 Savana Eco Resort and Natural Park in Gopalganj...
BFIU takes steps to recover Tk 15,000 crore from seized accounts
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has taken steps to initiate legal proceedings to recover Tk聽15,000 crore allegedly accumulated through suspicious transactions and money laundering...
BFIU launches joint probe against Hasina, family
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has launched a joint investigation into allegations of illegal wealth accumulation and money laundering by ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members...
US further restricts AI chip exports
In recent years, Washington has expanded its efforts to curb exports of state-of-the-art chips to China, which can be used in AI and weapons systems, as Beijing鈥檚 tech advancements spark concern among policymakers...
UK to unleash AI to turbocharge economy
Labour administration said AI would be 鈥榰nleashed鈥� across the whole of the country, with the 鈥榝ull weight鈥� of its half a million strong civil service getting behind the endeavour...