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San Francisco (AFP) - Microsoft, the tech titan most closely associated with AI, has announced nearly $10 billion in investments in artificial intelligence abroad in recent months, the price it is willing to pay to remain a top player in this crucial market. The overnight success of OpenAI's ChatGPT thrust generative AI as Silicon Valley's latest tech revolution, lifting Microsoft, OpenAI's main backer, to become the world's most valuable company. Since then, the maker of Windows and its rival Google have been competing furiously, rolling out tools that produce text, images or lines of code on...
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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives approved a bill Saturday that would force the wildly popular social media app TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. US and other Western officials have voiced alarm over the popularity of TikTok with young people, alleging that it allows Beijing to spy on users. It has 170 million in the United States alone. These critics also say TikTok is subservient to Beijing and a conduit to spread propaganda. China and the company deny these claims. The bill, which could trigger the rare step of...
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Paris (AFP) - James Cameron, the mastermind behind "The Terminator", "Aliens" and "Titanic", has an exhibition opening in Paris Thursday showcasing his lesser-known skills with pencil and paper. "The Art of James Cameron" is at the Cinematheque Francaise until January. The 69-year-old met AFP there to discuss the childhood origins of his films, his thoughts on artificial intelligence and a few teasers about the third "Avatar" film, due in 2025. How important was drawing when you were a child? Drawing was everything. It's how I processed the world. I was reading, watching films, taking in all...
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New York (AFP) - Billed as the place where art meets technology, New York's latest museum is promising to reinvent the format with an "immersive and sensory" experience. The Mercer Labs Museum of Art and Technology features works by Roy Nachum, a painter, sculptor and sound and light designer. Open since January in Manhattan's financial district, Nachum and investor Michael Cayre told AFP they hope to turn a profit from the $35 million they spent on the space, a former shopping mall that has its formal grand opening on March 28. Even for a city as expensive as the US financial capital, which ...
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Palo Alto (United States) (AFP) - Jennifer spent her weekend calling California voters, urging them to cast their ballot in Tuesday's primary election for Democrat Peter Dixon. But unlike her human counterparts, Jennifer is a creation of artificial intelligence (AI), allowing her to make thousands of calls without taking a break or losing her cool. "Hello there. My name is Jennifer and I'm an artificial intelligence volunteer," she says, immediately declaring her identity in calls to Silicon Valley voters in the US congressional race. In her slightly robotic-sounding voice -- intentionally des...
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Washington (AFP) - US authorities said Wednesday they had dismantled a network of hackers known as Volt Typhoon, which was targeting key American public sector infrastructure like water treatment plants and transportation systems at the behest of China. FBI Director Christopher Wray explained the operation in testimony before a congressional committee on US-China competition, and the Justice Department offered more details in a statement. In May 2023, the United States and its allies had accused Volt Typhoon, described as a "state-sponsored hacking group" backed by China, of infiltrating criti...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Whether dreaming of an artificial friend available around the clock, lifting off from traffic jams or doing without your cat's dead bird "gifts," CES inventors have no shortage of imagination. Here are a few highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show, the world's biggest tech and consumer electronics trade fair, which runs in Las Vegas until Friday. 'Supportive, nonjudgmental'"I'm designed to be a supportive and nonjudgmental presence in your life," assured Wehead, a sort of computer creature made of a set of screens, mounted on a robotic head, projecting a human face and ...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Technology causes us to lose sleep, but can it also give it back? Companies aiming to help insomniacs, inveterate snorers and nap lovers showed off their latest gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. "We are the world's first AI powered... sleep tracker and personal sleep stimulator that enhances deep sleep and also the time to fall asleep," said Kimi Doan, Investment Manager at Earable neuroscience. She presented the "Brainband," recently launched for almost $500. Designed as a cushioned crown, the band's gold-plated sensors analyze brain activity in real tim...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - CES, the annual high tech gadget extravaganza in Las Vegas, again delivers its wave of new inventions and cutting edge technology with artificial intelligence this year's unavoidable buzzword. Here's a look at some selected examples shown to the media, ahead of the official opening on Tuesday. Mirror, mirror on the wall......who's the healthiest of them all? Called "MagicMirror," NuraLogix's connected mirror scanned the face of the company's marketing executive Lindsay Brennan determining in a matter of seconds her body mass index, blood pressure and even her "mental stress i...
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San Francisco (AFP) - This California summer, passersby on the streets of San Francisco can be divided into two camps: blase locals who are used to a parade of moving cars with no drivers or gobsmacked tourists fumbling for their smartphones to capture this long-promised vision of the future. Katherine Allen climbs into a white Jaguar, which then pushes out carefully into the traffic in a busy neighborhood crisscrossed by jaywalkers and cyclists. The 37-year-old lawyer has been voluntarily testing Waymo's robot cabs since the end of 2021. At first, there was always an employee of this subsidi...
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