[ad_1] Google is adding two new features to its image search to reduce the spread of misinformation, especially now that artificial intelligence tools have made the creation of photorealistic fakes trivial. The Alphabet company’s first new feature is called ‘About this image,’ serving up additional context like when an image or similar ones were first … Read more
[ad_1] Alphabet’s Google rolled out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft’s relaunch of rival search engine Bing in recent months. At its annual I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Google offered an updated version of its namesake engine. Called … Read more
[ad_1] EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft’s $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,65,480 crore) acquisition of Activision next week, with May 15 as the likeliest date, people familiar with the matter said. The European Commission’s imminent clearance comes nearly three weeks after the UK competition authority blocked the deal, the biggest-ever deal in gaming, … Read more
[ad_1] Travel portal MakeMyTrip on Monday said it has collaborated with Microsoft to use Generative AI to make travel planning accessible by introducing voice-assisted booking in Indian languages. The new, in-platform tech stack powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Services, will converse with the user to offer personalised travel recommendations based on … Read more
[ad_1] Meta Platforms has hired an Oslo-based team that until late last year was building artificial-intelligence networking technology at British chip unicorn Graphcore. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the hirings in response to a request for comment, after Reuters identified 10 people whose LinkedIn profiles said they worked at Graphcore until December 2022 or January 2023 and … Read more
[ad_1] It has been a tough few days for Microsoft and Xbox. First, the firm’s ambitious and expensive attempt to acquire Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard hit a major hurdle when Britain’s competition regulator blocked the $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,63,980 crore) deal on April 26, citing cloud gaming concerns. And then, Redfall, Xbox’s … Read more
[ad_1] Microsoft will host its Xbox Games Showcase on June 11 — as confirmed before — and ahead of the event, the company has dropped timings and other details for the same. The showcase will be held live across Xbox’s official YouTube and Twitch channels, at 10:30pm IST in India/ 10am PT in the US. … Read more
[ad_1] The chief executives of Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and top administration officials to discuss key artificial intelligence (AI) issues on Thursday, said a White House official. The invitation seen by Reuters to the CEOs noted President Joe Biden’s “expectation that companies like yours must make … Read more
[ad_1] As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word “chatbot.” References to AI-generated content largely referred to deepfakes: images or … Read more
[ad_1] A committee of European Union lawmakers on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement on a European Artificial Intelligence Act, which would pave the way to the first ever regulation of AI. “Against conservative wishes for more surveillance and leftist fantasies of over-regulation, parliament found a solid compromise that would regulate AI proportionately, protect citizens’ rights, … Read more
