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Polestar hopes to leverage Intel's Mobileye self-driving tech in its Polestar 4 electric SUV coupé. (Image source: Polestar / Mobileye - edited)

Polestar aims to beat Tesla to Level 4 self-driving punch in partnership with Intel's Mobileye

Polestar aims to launch the Polestar 4 EV with Mobileye's SuperVision Level 2+ ADAS capabilities throughout 2023 and 2024. Polestar aims to have the Intel subsidiary's Chauffeur Level 4 ADAS in its vehicles in the future. Curiousl...

Julian van der Merwe, 26 Aug 2023 03:24

More HBM3E is on the way. (Source: SK Hynix)

SK Hynix announces launch of ~1TB/s HBM3E memory for next-gen AI puposes

SK Hynix has announced that it is ready to sample its latest form of high bandwidth memory (or HBM), pitched at advanced applications such as research or AI, to its customers. HBM3E is rated to keep up to 10% cooler thanks to the ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 22 Aug 2023 21:41

A new TicWatch 5 Pro teaser. (Source: Mobvoi)

Update | Mobvoi TicWatch 5 Pro: New colorway announcement marked with AI-powered giveaway

Mobvoi has announced that its latest flagship smartwatch will be available in a color besides black soon. In the meantime, the OEM is offering the opportunity to win the ~US$300 wearable in its new shade. The odds of doing so are ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 16 Aug 2023 22:52

An AI-ready AMD stack server. (Source: AMD)

Over 66% of IT heads see AI as an advantage, but only ~50% are ready to adopt it

According to new AMD-commissioned research, nearly 80% of the 2,000+ "IT leaders" surveyed believed that AI will boost their productivity, while 70% of them believe that it will result in an improved work-life balance. Despite thi...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 15 Aug 2023 23:10

The Nvidia Grace Hopper GH200 in dual configuration. (Source: Nvidia)

Nvidia aims to captialize on generative AI growth with launch of new Grace Hopper super chip, world's first with HBM3e RAM

Nvidia stock has exploded in 2023 with the rise of generative AI technology. The company is looking to double down its momentum in the server market with the launch of its latest Grace Hopper super chip, which is the first in the ...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 13 Aug 2023 12:10

The ESCALADE IQ's high-end cockpit. (Source: Qualcomm)

Cadillac ESCALADE IQ: Powered by Qualcomm with cutting-edge Snapdragon Digital Chassis technology

The ESCALADE IQ is the latest all-electric SUV from Cadillac, and is touted to be one of the most premium vehicles of its class on its 2024 release. Qualcomm has announced that it has equipped the ~US$130,000 car with smarts to ma...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 11 Aug 2023 17:24

Robert Hallock moves to Intel after leaving AMD (Source: AMD)

Robert Hallock leaves AMD for Intel to work on AI for consumer chips

Robert Hallock left AMD in September 2022, after spending over a decade with the company and being involved in marketing processors and GPUs. Now, he is returning to the tech industry by joining Intel, where he will focus on AI fo...

Codrut Nistor, 08 Aug 2023 20:12

Tesla's goal with FSD is to make its vehicles safer, in spite of its "move fast and break things" image. (Image source: Tesla)

Elon Musk yet again claims Tesla FSD breakthrough around the corner thanks to AI and ML advancements

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, claims, yet again, that the holy grail of the Full Self-Driving is just around the corner. Based on the CEO's comments on the matter, it appears as though Tesla is moving its vehicle instructions over to an A...

Julian van der Merwe, 02 Aug 2023 22:57

Meta offers its Llama 2 AI model free-of-cost for commercial use. (Source: Meta)

Human-like AI chatbots with varied personalities could come to Meta platforms as early as September

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, could be developing chatbots powered by AI with various personalities and the ability to hold human-like conversations. Per Financial Times, Meta intends to deploy these chatbots across its pl...

Fawad Murtaza, 02 Aug 2023 08:24

Bing Chat Enterprise now available (Source: Microsoft)

Microsoft intros Bing Chat Enterprise

In another move aimed at strengthening its position in the AI market for business customers, Microsoft has started testing Bing Chat Enterprise. This service is a combination between the popular AI-backed chat and commercial data ...

Codrut Nistor, 19 Jul 2023 14:30

Honor Smart Screen 5 debuts as new 4K/144Hz VRR home theater option with gaming-friendly boost

Honor has introduced its latest smart TV as the Smart Screen 5. Its 4K display supports HDR10 and variable refresh rate technology that optimizes its up-to-144Hz output over HDMI 2.1, although the OEM asserts that it can do even b...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 12 Jul 2023 21:22

Samsung Foundry's cutting-edge nodes now have massively improved yields (image via Samsung)

Samsung Foundry 4 nm and 3 nm yields reportedly at 75% and 60%

Business Korea has heard from industry insiders that Samsung Foundry has massively improved yields on its 4 nm and 3 nm nodes. AMD supposedly plans to use the former for some of its AI hardware.

Anil Ganti, 12 Jul 2023 10:09

Canary Mail gets Copilot, an AI-driven email writing tool

Thanks to the in-house developed Copilot, Canary Mail now provides AI-powered email writing capabilities to its users across the supported platforms, which include Windows, Android, macOS, and iOS. Those who need pinned emails, a ...

Codrut Nistor, 11 Jul 2023 17:11

Nvidia and Samsung may collaborate again soon. (Image Source: Samsung)

Nvidia could outsource some of its AI GPUs to Samsung

Nvidia might face AI GPU supply problems if it keeps relying only on TSMC. Team Green already suggested an Intel collaboration, but industry sources claim that Nvidia is also considering Samsung as a secondary source.

Bogdan Solca, 05 Jul 2023 14:14

Valve is rejecting apps utilizing generative AI from their online store. (Source: Valve)

Valve has started blocking games with AI generated content, could imperil games like MS Flight Simulator

Valve has started rejecting games with generative AI content. The company claims that developers need to demonstrate they have the necessary copyright clearances to use the material.

Sanjiv Sathiah, 03 Jul 2023 07:38

Musk outrages Twitter user base again in latest push to force subscriptions

Elon Musk has caused another stir on his social media platform Twitter, this time by introducing new viewing limits. Musk claims they are needed to address scraping and platform manipulation, although his approach appears to be a ...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 02 Jul 2023 04:59

The Urtopia e-bike with a ChatGPT voice interaction tool was shown at EUROBIKE 2023. (Image source: Urtopia)

Urtopia smart e-bike with ChatGPT unveiled alongside new Fusion model

Urtopia has revealed a smart e-bike with voice interaction powered by integrated ChatGPT at Eurobike 2023. Recent YouTube videos show users asking the bike questions, including a suggested sightseeing route with navigation provide...

Polly Allcock, 30 Jun 2023 18:45

Microsoft hopes to make online shopping easier with Bing's AI-powered buying guide. (Photo by rupixen.com on Unsplash)

Microsoft introduces AI-powered buying tools to Bing and Edge

Continuing in its push to develop AI-powered tools, Microsoft today announced Buying Guides, a new tool integrated into the Bing search engine that aims to help consumers with product research. Bing will also include tools to aid ...

Sam Medley, 29 Jun 2023 21:20

Elon Musk's Twitter is making rapid strides of evolving into an "everything X app". (Image generated by Midjourney AI)

From Twitter to "X": Elon Musk's overpaid acquisition has more to it than meets the eye

One app to rule them all. Increasing proliferation of AI-generated content into large social platforms like Twitter is fast blurring the lines between fake news and credible information. Musk's US$44 billion Twitter acquisition ma...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 21 Jun 2023 10:55

The new Opera One browser powered by AI. (Source: Opera)

AI-powered Opera One browser hits the market, features ChatGPT integration with live web results

Opera has unveiled its all-new browser, Opera One, which the company says has been rebuilt from the ground up for the new age of generative AI.

Sanjiv Sathiah, 20 Jun 2023 12:49

Nikon's latest Peruvian ad campaign takes the fight to AI image generators. (Image source: Charlie Tolmos on YouTube)

Nikon takes aim at AI images with Natural Intelligence campaign

Camera maker Nikon has thrown its weight into the fight against controversial AI image generation tools, like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion, in an ad campaign centric around the beauty of the natural world and the creat...

Julian van der Merwe, 16 Jun 2023 02:45

Will the Vision Pro track your brain? Maybe. (Source: Apple)

Apple Vision Pro AI 'mind-reading' patent summary leads to dystopian FUD for future visionOS users

The inaugural Vision Pro's launch has prompted a Twitter thread from a researcher who contributed to "neurotechnology" development at Apple outlining details on the headset (or its possible successors) that might be interpreted as...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 10 Jun 2023 18:22

Is Stock really an "AI goldmine"? (Source: Adobe)

AI-generated images found to make more money on Adobe Stock compared to 'real' counterparts

Adobe Stock is one of the biggest repository of non-royalty images online. It is also the only one accepting output from generative AI as such at the time of writing. A new analysis of the sale of and revenue from images available...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 07 Jun 2023 20:05

The latest iOS updates are official. (Source: Apple)

WWDC 2023 | iOS 17 lands to bring new sharing, customization and stand-by mode options to iPhones

The latest version of iOS 17 brings a whole uses of features such as AirDrop and always-on displays (AODs) to Apple's iPhones. The major software upgrade also confers a new way of dealing with both known and unknown callers in the...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 05 Jun 2023 22:21

Paragraphica generates images based on various cues, not a traditional lens. (Image source: Bjørn Karmann)

Paragraphica: Project combines Raspberry Pi and Stable Diffusion to create 'photos' without camera lens or sensor

Paragraphica may resemble a camera, but it does not capture light to generate images. Instead, the device dispenses with a lens and sensor altogether, and relies on AI to produce results.

Alex Alderson, 02 Jun 2023 17:14

The world has a new 'trillion-dollar' company. (Source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA market cap cracks US$1 trillion mark for first time

NVIDIA's share price has finally propelled it into the US$1 trillion market cap club today (May 30, 2023). Its meteoric valuation is attributed to its (abundantly clear) focus on AI hardware and services. The company's new status ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 30 May 2023 17:46

An Intel partnership could help Nvidia reduce reliance on TSMC. (Image Source: ChannelNews)

Computex '23 | Intel could produce some of Nvidia's next gen GPUs

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks about a possible collaboration with Intel in an effort to diversify production venues and alleviate supply chain issues rising with the escalating tensions between the US, China and Taiwan.

Bogdan Solca, 30 May 2023 16:20

MediaTek and Nvidia have announced a new partnership at Computex 2023 (image via Nvidia/MediaTek)

Nvidia teams up with MediaTek to develop a new generation of automotive chips

MediaTek has announced it will be working with Nvidia to develop its next generation of automotive chips. They will support Nvidia's software library and even include an Nvidia GPU connected via Nvlink.

Anil Ganti, 29 May 2023 17:31

Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake will include a dedicated VPU for AI tasks. (Image generated using Midjourney AI)

Computex 2023 | Intel 14th gen Meteor Lake features dedicated VPU to offload AI tasks with minimal power consumption

Intel detailed some aspects of Meteor Lake's AI smarts. All Meteor Lake SKUs will use a dedicated visual processing unit (VPU) that works together with the CPU and GPU and helps offload intense AI tasks while consuming just a frac...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 29 May 2023 15:35

Nvidia unveils DGX GH200 AI computing platform for ChatGPT successors and ACE for Games service for ultrarealistic NPCs

With stock valuation approaching a trillion thanks to the AI craze, Nvidia keeps the momentum going by unveiling a number of new products and services related to artificial intelligence. First in line is a new DGX GH200 supercompu...

Daniel Zlatev, 29 May 2023 10:45

Nvidia's new Grace Hopper Superchip is now official (image via own)

Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchip unveiled for AI-centric workloads

Nvidia has unveiled its new Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination of a CPU and GPU connected via Nvlink. The Grace CPU has 72 Arm cores and up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, while the Hopper GPU packs up to 96 GB of HBM3 memory.

Anil Ganti, 29 May 2023 09:52

Neuralink brain implant with charger, 3D model (Source: CGTrader)

Neuralink receives FDA's green light for its first human trials

Being rejected in early 2022, Elon Musk's brain-implant initiative, Neuralink, has finally managed to secure FDA's approval. Thanks to this step, the road to the first-in-human clinical trial is now open. Recruitment is not open y...

Codrut Nistor, 26 May 2023 13:29

Ryzen AI Developer Tools are now available. (Source: AMD)

AMD and Microsoft present AI Developer Tools for Ryzen 7040 processors

AMD touts its new Ryzen 7040 series as the best processors to make the 'AI-enhanced' laptops of the near future. Now, Windows developers can work on their potential for "unique experiences" with early access to the software rated ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 24 May 2023 16:00

Cyberpunk 2077 in RT Overdrive mode with path tracing (Image Source: TweakTown)

AI-accelerated ray tracing: Nvidia's real-time neural radiance caching for path tracing could soon debut in Cyberpunk 2077

Path tracing is significantly more taxing even on high-end RTX 4000 GPUs compared to traditional ray tracing methods. Nvidia's real-time neural radiance caching for path tracing is designed to solve the severe performance hit. Thi...

Bogdan Solca, 22 May 2023 13:44

OpenAI's ChatGPT has been launched as a mobile app for iOS. (Source: OpenAI)

OpenAI releases its chatbot as an app for iOS, Android version coming soon

For fans of OpenAI’s hugely successful ChatGPT generative AI-powered chatbot, a source of frustration has been the need to access the service via the OpenAI website. While some workarounds and third-party solutions have been avail...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 19 May 2023 03:40

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster at the ITF World event (Image Source: imec Facebook)

AMD CTO: Hybrid cores are coming soon to Ryzen processors and generative AI will speed up chip design

CTO Mark Papermaster revealed at this year's ITF World event that AMD will soon introduce its own hybrid core technology with performance cores and efficiency cores similar to Intel's and Apple's implementations. This technology i...

Bogdan Solca, 18 May 2023 14:32

Apple's Assistive Access supports users with cognitive disabilities. (Source: Apple)

Apple flexes its AI muscle with new accessibility features coming to iOS 17

Apple has taken the unusual step of previewing features coming to iOS 17 ahead of its expected announcement at WWDC 2023. The new features are focused on enhancing accessibility for users with disabilities with Apple flexing its A...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 17 May 2023 15:11

AMD desktop and server-grade AI-powered CPUs could be a thing in a few years. (Image Source: Freepik)

AMD outlines plans to integrate AI XDNA IPUs across its entire processor portfolio

For now, only select mobile-grade processors will feature the AI XDNA IPUs. AMD is considering IPUs for desktop and server CPUs some time in the next three years, not before software support sees clear expansion.

Bogdan Solca, 16 May 2023 18:00

The new AR bracelet reference design, with a pair of Goertek glasses. (Source: Goertek)

Goertek unveils a reference design for the AR-compatible smartwatch of the future

Goertek predicts that extended, mixed and/or augmented reality (XR/MR/AR) is ready to take over, through the medium of the glasses it helps other companies to make. To this end, the OEM also now asserts that smartwatch-like device...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 07 May 2023 16:40

Geoffrey Hinton focused on deep learning projects for half a century (Source: Geoffrey Hinton on Twitter)

Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google, warns about AI risks

Known for his work on artificial neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton has been with Google since March 2013, when the tech giant acquired DNNresearch Inc., his company at the time. Earlier today, he announced his departure from Google...

Codrut Nistor, 01 May 2023 20:01

Machine Learning algorithms provide increased security against all forms of data tampering. (Image Source: Cigent)

Cigent's latest SSDs come with AI-powered protection against ransomware attacks

The Ai microprocessors integrated with Cigent's new Secure SSD+ solutions employ machine learning algorithms to detect ransomware and remote attacks. Together with the Data Defense app, the SSDs can enable per-file multi-factor au...

Bogdan Solca, 26 Apr 2023 17:47

Snap Inc might have something else to regret. (Source: Snap Inc)

Snapchat AI bot launches, almost immediately tanks user ratings and stock price

Snapchat's latest feature, a ChatGPT-enabled bot, has been available to its users for seven days now. In that time, My AI has reportedly turned app-store reviews negative and gave the Snap Inc. share price a hammering. It is also ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 26 Apr 2023 16:33

Latitude 9440: Ultra-business-class 14-inch 2-in-1 hits Dell's US store

Dell touts the Latitude 9440 as the smallest 14-inch laptop you can buy right now - then again, you may be most inclined to order it for work, as it is also hyped as the OEM's most "collaborative" PC yet. That entails Zoom control...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 19 Apr 2023 19:27

Dimensity goes automotive. (Source: MediaTek)

Dimensity Auto platform touted to bring 3nm MediaTek silicon to next-gen cars

MediaTek has announced that its flagship Dimensity line of mobile SoCs has gone Auto with a new range of computing solutions for next-gen vehicles. It challenges Qualcomm's latest offerings for the same industry pretty directly, p...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 18 Apr 2023 19:36

The ID.7 is official. (Source: Volkswagen)

Volkswagen ID.7 debuts as new long-distance all-electric sedan

Volkswagen has finally announced full specs, configuration options and launch dates for the ID.7 today (April 17, 2023). The all-electric sedan aims for the upper mid-range of the automotive market with a new power unit for increa...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 17 Apr 2023 17:10

The DiDi Neuron. (Source: DiDi Global via tphuang on Twitter)

DiDi Global unveils plan to bring robotaxis to China by 2025

DiDi Global is one of the best-known sources of ride-hailing on Chinese streets. Now, it has announced its intention to give its service a next-gen overhaul by putting its own self-driving taxi on those roads in the near future. T...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 14 Apr 2023 19:16

AI-generated Tesla logo proves more popular as its brand value now tops Mercedes

An American Trucks-commissioned survey proved that BMW and Subaru have more recognizable logos than Tesla, while most of the respondents liked AI-generated car company art better than the original. Still, Tesla's brand value is no...

Daniel Zlatev, 12 Apr 2023 18:10

Shocking leak details the intricate mind behind OpenAI and ChatGPT

A new leak has revealed the primary improvement in GPT-4, the language model behind the current iteration of ChatGPT. This information points to how ChatGPT has come to mimic human behavior, specifically with regard to information...

Sam Medley, 01 Apr 2023 06:00

The MetaVRain chip is smaller than a regular coin. (Image Source: YouTube)

MetaVRain AI-powered 3D rendering chip is 1000x more powerful than current Nvidia GPUs

The chip may also use 26,400 times less energy and 180 times less VRAM and can be integrated in a portable device no larger than a smartphone. It is designed to simplify the conversion of 2D material into editable 3D models for th...

Bogdan Solca, 31 Mar 2023 15:50

Insta360 Flow launches as a new portable, versatile, AI-powered smartphone gimbal

Insta360 has joined its rival OEM DJI in being an action-cam company that now also sells its own gimbal. The Flow comes with its own AI to augment its in-built stabilization, and also to confer a third-gen Deep Tracking mode on th...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 30 Mar 2023 19:32