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Nvidia has formally launched the RTX 4090D made specifically for the Chinese market. The card appears to be a slightly cut down variant of the regular RTX 4090 the company was forced to pull from sale in China due to U.S. government restrictions.

Reliable Robotics has created aviation history with the world’s first flight of a Cessna controlled entirely by smart software, not humans. With nobody on board, the self-flying Cessna is able to taxi, take off, fly its scheduled route, land, and taxi back to the gate all by itself. For safety, a remote pilot monitoring the flight can take over at any moment.

LG QNED TVs that combine the OEM's "hyper-realistic" Quantum Dot and NanoCell Color technologies are on the way back in 2024 with new variants. They are slated to come in a range of sizes complete with a 98-inch "blockbuster" flagship, and to come packed with LG's latest AI, audio and contrast enhancements.

It took three Berlin students 600 euros worth of tools, time, and specialized technical knowledge to activate Tesla's ultimate "Elon mode", a “godlike” function that allows users to take control of the car's autonomous driving features.

A group of worldwide researchers have created image analysis software powered by AI/ML technology to detect fake art masterpieces. They have used their software on a Raphael painting and discovered that one section was likely painted by someone else.

Motorola is getting ready to say goodbye to 2023 and look ahead to a 2024 replete with updated, upgraded mobile devices already. The brand asserts that the new range will be the first to be augmented with its OEM Lenovo's custom AI in earnest, its flagships, Moto G-series mid-ranges and the Razr Plus' successor included.

Apple is getting serious about generative AI, releasing its first Multimodel Large Language Model dubbed Ferret. The new AI model has been published under an open source license and was trained using 8 Nvidia A100 GPUs.

Apple has lost another of its key employees to Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom. Tang Tan, who currently heads up the iPhone and Watch design teams is leaving Apple to work with Ive and Sam Altman on the smartphone powered by OpenAI’s market leading generative AI technology.

Integrated Biosciences has discovered a new class of antibiotics using AI-powered drug discovery software. The new antibiotics can be effective against MRSA and other germs that have gained resistance against current drugs. This can reduce deaths from infections that do not respond to current antibiotics.

OPPO has indicated that the Find X7 series will be its first smartphones to launch with a new AI assistant out of the box. AndesGPT is based on a large language model (LLM) rated to respond up to 3.5 times faster than the industry average (depending on word-count). It is also backed to complete tasks such as generating high-quality images up to 60% faster than rival models.

In view of CES 2024, LG Electronics prepares to showcase their smart home AI agent that runs on multimodal AI technology. The bot is powered by Qualcomm Robotics RB5 for facial recognition and functions as a pet monitor, a patrolling security guard and a moving smart home hub on two wheels.

Shift Robotics is inviting corporations to test its newest Moonwalkers model at CES 2024. Moonwalkers are 8-wheeled, AI powered skates that improve walking speed up to 3x to help business owners squeeze more productivity out of their workers.

Three Pasadena technology companies have partnered together to counter California labor rate inflation with CaliExpress - the world’s first restaurant where AI-powered robots autonomously cook burgers and fries. This restaurant showcases Miso Robotics latest improvements since their first burger-flipping robot was introduced in 2018.

Yamaha has celebrated the upcoming 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with a concert performance. Key highlights were the AI-assisted piano performances by the disabled. Despite limited mobility, they were able to play nuanced pieces of the symphony center stage.

The MIT Technology Review has compiled a list of the biggest technological failures of 2023. These include the Titan deep-sea submersible, General Motors' wayward cruise robotaxis, and Humane Ai Pin, among others.

The company is reportedly in preliminary negotiations with investors. Should the investment round progress as anticipated, OpenAI would become the second most valuable startup in the United States, following Elon Musk's Space X.

Rumors are pointing to Apple being introducing a generative AI version of Siri set to debut with iOS 18 on the next-generation iPhone 16 series due in late 2024. The company’s researchers have just detailed one way in which an iPhone will be able to overcome RAM limitations to successfully run a sophisticated LLM on-device.

NOWATCH has launched their signature health tracker to support well-being and balance. The wearable has the unique option of swappable faces, so users can replace the analog dial with a display-less metal or gemstone face. This completely removes the digital distraction and stress of modern digital smartwatch displays and the pressures of time.

A Stanford study has discovered thousands of explicit images of child abuse in LAION-5B, the largest image dataset for training AI models, including Stable Diffusion. Following this revelation, LAION has temporarily taken its datasets offline to ensure they are safe before republishing.

Humane has announced that the AI Pin will start shipping in March 2024. However, this shipping timeline is only for priority orders, and the AI wearables will be dispatched in the same sequence the pre-orders were received.

Much like its earlier releases, Imou's latest security cameras come with full-color night vision, customizable detection zones, IP67 water-resistance and AI detection for humans, vehicles and pets. Neither the Bullet 3 nor the Cruiser 2C support the Matter protocol.

15 years of data on family, health and education are enough to make astonishingly reliable predictions for a lifetime. If you want to take a look into the future yourself, you can find the associated program "life2vec" on github.

The AI-Girlfriend app allows you to create a personalised Pixar-style girlfriend, with whom you can enter a romantic relationship. However, some social media users are worried that the trend towards girlfriend apps could contribute to the further deterioration of real-life relationships.

AI models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion require large amounts of energy and CO₂. This is a worrying trend, and recent studies provide important insights into the climate impact of artificial intelligence.

Gigabyte has confirmed that 2024 versions of the AORUS 17 and 15 are on the way, and that, furthermore, they will be "Intel Core Ultra 7"-powered laptops. They are also touted to land as high-refresh rate gaming machines with custom cooling technology for their RTX 4000-series graphics. The AORUS-series PCs are also backed to come with extra AI features in this upcoming generation.

Google appears to be planning to replace Google Assistant on Pixel phones and launch a Pixel-exclusive new assistant called "Pixie" with the introduction of the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro. Thanks to Gemini, among other things, it is likely to be much more powerful and personalized and also possible to use on low-power devices such as the Pixel Watch.

Google MedML is an AI language model developed specifically for the healthcare sector and is now available to Google Cloud customers in the US via the Vertex AI platform.

Google DeepMind's new AI is developing numerous materials, including for EV batteries, solar cells, computer chips and much more. In addition, the new A-Lab laboratory is taking material development to a next level by combining robotics and machine learning.

The new BIOS updates for the X670 mobos from Asus and ASRock include detailed specs for the upcoming Ryzen 8000G series. ASRock even shows a CPU-Z screen with the Ryzen 7 8700G coupled with 256 GB of DDR5 RAM.

Meta is launching a prerelease version of Ray-Ban smart glasses with AI capabilities for select users in the USA. Using the glasses' camera system, Meta's AI can evaluate what you see and hear and give commentary.

In the latest firmware update, Aqara's FP2 presence sensor has added a sleep tracking mode that tracks cardiovascular data while you sleep. AI-powered person detection and People Counting are "on the horizon", as Aqara continues to fine-tune its mmWave presence sensor.

At today's "AI Everywhere" conference, Intel is expected to present the new Intel Core Ultra mobile processors of the Meteor Lake generation. However, Microsoft has already accidentally leaked the names of all models in a support document.

Springbok Analytics has announced their AI-powered, 3D muscle scanning service. Their report utilizes 3D MRI scans coupled with AI to provide a complete body muscle analysis. This data can be used by trainers to improve athletic performance and doctors to improve injury recovery.

The AI industry could soon become one of the largest sources of carbon emissions and result in increased e-waste generation and water use, according to an MIT Sloan Management Review article by Niklas Sundberg, an expert of sustainability in technology. He highlights the high energy consumption of training LMMs like ChatGPT, answering individual queries and sustaining the large data centres they require.

The Paris-based startup, Mistral AI, raised $415 million after the Series A funding round closed. It is valued at roughly $2 billion, according to Bloomberg.

Apple has launched a new framework for developers to help them create generative AI models to run specifically on Apple silicon. The new Apple MLX framework has been released to GitHub, and is open source with the aim of helping to expedite its development

Released in 2009, Grammarly became a popular assistant for students, professional writers, and people who need assistance with various projects from time to time. While the standalone Editor apps for Windows and Mac will be discontinued in the first days of 2024, their successors (Grammarly for Windows and Mac) are already available.

The recently released text-to-image generator by Facebook's and Instagram's parent company was trained using 1.1 billion public images from the two websites. Unfortunately, this fun online resource that is powered by artificial intelligence is only available in the US for the time being.

A brand new One UI 6.1 version has been circulating since this weekend and lots of photos and screenshots provide an idea about the new features and improvements that can be expected on the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Ultra, as well as on older Samsung phones in the future. As expected, the magic word is AI.

Still labeled as an experimental product for the time being, Google NotebookLM is now opening up to all US-based customers. Although it uses AI capabilities thanks to the recently unveiled Gemini Pro, NotebookLM will only use the information it gets from the user, without any additional knowledge.

CheckMag Gaming frames may get all the hype and excitement on the internet, but when the enterprise world has orders of magnitude more money to throw around, the world of interconnects and accelerators is far more important.

Grok, the AI chatbot "with a rebellious streak," is now available to X members in the US with a Premium+ subscription. Elon Musk, founder of xAI, the company behind Grok, has also announced broader rollout plans. Plus, an SEC filing indicates that xAI is seeking up to $1 billion in funding.

Google has unveiled Gemini - a new AI model that will soon power most Google products and services. Gemini Pro is now powering Bard and Gemini Nano is set to bring new features to Google Pixel 8 Pro.

With Copilot's first anniversary, Microsoft unveils exciting plans for the future of the AI assistant. Soon, Copilot will answer with the help of GPT-4 Turbo and an updated Dall-E 3 model, Edge users will get a rewrite menu, and the new Code Interpreter will run data analysis and visualization tasks, perform calculations, write code, and more.

The cloud business is currently and clearly dominated by US companies. This has various disadvantages for countries outside the US, such possible data protection issues and loss of potential revenue. Now, the EU is finally getting its act together for its own cloud infrastructure.

Industry sources close to The Elec claim that Samsung is acquiring packaging equipment from Japanese company Shinkawa in order to produce HBM3 RAM and interposers for the upcoming Blackwell AI accelerators. TSMC is still producing the GPU chips, however.

The main goal of the AI Alliance, launched by Meta, IBM, Intel, Sony, Dell, and other companies, is the responsible development of AI technology with an emphasis on safety and security measures. The group also intends to promote the proliferation of open-source AI models.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 users in United States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Italy, and Germany can now generate AI images within Paint using their new tool, Cocreator.