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For Tech Giants, AI Like Bing and Bard Poses Billion-Dollar Search Problem

As Alphabet Inc looks past a chatbot flub that helped erase $100 billion from its market value, another challenge is emerging from its efforts to add generative artificial intelligence to its popular Google Search: the cost. Executives across the technology sector are talking about how to operate AI like ChatGPT while accounting for the high […]

2023: The Year Transformation Spreads Its Wings

2022 has been an interesting year, to say the least. And as life settled into the new normal, technological innovations became exponentially more important in our daily lives. 2022 was a hallmark year in technology-based industries, from the 5G rollout to artificial intelligence (AI) popularization. And 2023 is promising to be just as, if not […]

U.S. House Panel to Hold Hearing on Policy toward China

The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday with top officials on China policy to identify gaps in pursuing what it called a “more holistic approach” to countering aggression by the Chinese Communist Party. The hearing, announced by the panel’s chair, Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican, is called, “Combating the Generational Challenge […]

EU Eyes Big Tech as It Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs

The European Commission on Thursday launched a consultation on the future of Europe’s telecoms sector, starting a process that could lead to requiring Alphabet’s Google, Apple, Meta Platform and Netflix to pay some network costs. The move by the EU executive followed more than two decades of lobbying by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia […]

Amazon Web Services Pairs with Hugging Face to Target AI Developers

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com Inc, on Tuesday said it is collaborating with startup Hugging Face, a software development hub, to make it easier to carry out artificial intelligence work (AI) in Amazon’s cloud. While new generative AI services like chat-based search engines from Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc’s Google […]

Microsoft Inks Nvidia Game Deal to Assuage Regulators over Activision Merger

Microsoft Corp has struck a 10-year deal to bring “Call of Duty” and other Activision games to Nvidia Corp’s gaming platform if the Xbox maker is allowed to complete its much-contested $69 billion acquisition of Activision. Regulators and competitors like Sony have come out hard against the proposed Microsoft-Activision tie-up. The move may allay concerns […]

Telecom Quantum Computing: A Dream or a Fantasy?

A quantum computer is a special kind that uses quantum mechanics to perform some computations more quickly than a conventional computer. Once the technology is in complete form, it is set to revolutionize every industry known to humankind. Alongside the pharmaceutical and cybersecurity sectors, experts postulate that this innovation will change the telecoms industry as […]

Biden Admin Won't Veto ITC's Apple Watch Import Ban Ruling

The Biden Administration will not overrule a U.S. International Trade Commission decision that could block imports of Apple Inc’s Apple Watches for infringing AliveCor Inc patents related to heart monitoring, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Tuesday. An AliveCor spokesperson also said it had been informed there would be no veto of the […]

AT&T Seeks to Shed Cybersecurity Division - Sources

AT&T Inc, the second-biggest U.S. wireless carrier, is exploring a sale of its cybersecurity division, potentially undoing an acquisition it completed five years ago, according to people familiar with the matter. The sale of the cybersecurity business would add to a string of divestments AT&T has turned to in order to pay down debt following […]