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Following the federal government's recent ban of the AI company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, many are calling the move a capricious and unwarranted act of government overreach.
The memo, when it came, was about a transition rather than a departure. Emily Dalton Smith, the Meta executive who had spent barely two months running the company’s push to reorganise itself around AI agents, is leaving. She joined Meta in 2015. She is going just as the work she was hired to lead wa
SK Hynix said on Thursday that it had begun shipping samples of HBM4E, its next generation of high-bandwidth memory for AI, to major customers. The number that matters is the one the chipmaker is leading with: a 12-layer stack reaching 48GB of capacity, running at up to 16Gbps per pin, with power ef
Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. The man widely credited as a principal architect of Google’s Gemini models and a co-author of the 2017 transformer paper that underpins virtually every modern large language model announced the move himself, on X: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining
Apple is going to raise prices, and Tim Cook is no longer pretending otherwise. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the chief executive said the company could not keep absorbing the soaring cost of memory and storage chips. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. The lin
Preity Zinta has secured permission from the Bombay High Court to sue Google and others over AI-generated deepfakes and manipulated content. The post Bombay HC Allows Preity Zinta to Sue Google, 16 Others Over AI Deepfakes appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
The UK’s CMA ordered Google to make search rankings more transparent, notify businesses of major changes, handle ranking complaints, and let users share search data with approved third parties. The post UK orders Google to make search rankings fairer and more transparent appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
With grants of up to ₹14 crore, world-class lab access, and full relocation support, the Prime Minister Research Chair Scheme is India's boldest bid
A partnership with Intel helps Apple diversify its manufacturing base as it seeks additional chip capacity. The iPhone maker relies heavily on TSMC, whose advanced production lines are in high demand from AI chipmakers such as Nvidia and AMD.
A groundbreaking study indicates that lightweight AI models installed on everyday home computers are on the verge of surpassing the robust systems found in data centers. This pivotal change may drive down costs and profit margins for industry leaders such as Anthropic and OpenAI. Nvidia’s cutting-ed
The global artificial intelligence (AI) market is likely to evolve into a two-tier structure, with premium frontier AI models serving highly specialised use cases while lower-cost models dominate mainstream applications, according to a report by Bernstein.
L'Oréal SA is acquiring a majority stake in Indian beauty startup Innovist. This move strengthens L'Oréal's position in India's rapidly expanding personal care market. Innovist, known for its science-led brands like Bare Anatomy, will continue to be run by its founders. This partnership aims to capt
Global cosmetics giant L’Oreal has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in beauty and personal care startup Innovist.…
The company had reported net operating income of Rs 795 crore and a profit after tax of Rs 408 crore in FY25. The rating agency attributed the increase in operating expenses in FY26 to elevated marketing spend, team expansion, and one-off non-recurring expenses.
Directive aimed at government workers, but reports of wider implementation spark warnings of future Afghanistan-wide prohibition The Taliban have ordered a sweeping ban on the use of smartphones by government officials – in what some analysts say could foreshadow broader, population-level restrictio
Ordinary Taiwanese, young and old, are joining courses to learn how to fly drones amid looming China military threat In a small, crowded room in Taipei, Pan Chien-chin is trying to keep a drone hovering steadily. Imagining himself flying a plane, he gently nudges controller joysticks to guide the in
As companies integrate AI and hire fewer employees, a shift toward a ‘gig economy’ will commence In 2024, the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna announced that it would cut hundreds of customer service roles and begin using an artificial intelligence chatbot instead. The move was expected to save the
Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in ‘ongoing contest with capable adversaries’ and AI could add to threat The UK’s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, ac
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The news that Apple had agreed to make its chips in the United States did not come from Apple. It came, on Thursday, from a post by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, announcing that the company had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture chips on American soil. Apple, for its part,
