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China has banned the use of Intel and AMD chips in civil servants' computers

China has introduced new rules that prohibit the use of American processors AMD and Intel in government computers and servers, as well as block Microsoft Windows and foreign databases in favor of domestic solutions, according to the Financial Times. ...

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WhatsApp plans to put Meta AI right in the search bar

The popular messenger WhatsApp is working on integrating Meta AI directly into the search bar. This was reported by the publication WABetaInfo, which noticed this feature in the new beta update for Android WhatsApp. WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.7...

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GitHub has launched a new AI tool and can now self-patch vulnerabilities in code

GitHub has launched the first beta version of a new feature that automatically searches for and fixes security vulnerabilities in code as it is being written. The new feature combines: Copilot assistant capabilities CodeQL's proprietary engine for s...

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Catapult on steroids. Chinese railgun will launch crewed ships into space

To deliver astronauts into space requires an incredible amount of fuel (for example, the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo mission, carried 770,000 liters of kerosene and liquid oxygen as an oxidizer), so researchers have long been studying ...

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More than 40% of Ukrainians cannot recognize AI-generated text - Kantar Ukraine poll

The February survey by Kantar Ukraine shows that Ukrainians actively follow the development of AI - nearly 79% of respondents know what it is, but only 29% have used the technology in practice. The highest experience of using AI is among young people...

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Apple loses $113 billion due to 'attacks' by EU and US regulators

The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the iPhone manufacturer on charges of violating antitrust laws, while the EU is preparing an investigation regarding the non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act. As Bloomberg notes, on Thur...

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AMD announced FSR 3.1 and released AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 with support for Dragon's Dogma 2

During the Game Developers Conference, AMD introduced a new version of the FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3.1 scaling and frame generation technology. It offers several key updates: Scaling improves visual quality in certain situations, such as i...

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Pay extra for tweets: Ilon Musk launched a new API subscription for developers at X (Twitter)

Social network X (formerly Twitter) launched a new subscription in the API service for developers on Tuesday. TechCrunch reported about this. This upgrade will allow developers to make approximately 10,000 posts for $100 if they reach the limit. Elon...

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A paralyzed patient with a Neuralink chip has shown how to play chess on a computer "with the power of thought"

29-year-old Noland Arbo, who was partially paralyzed after a diving accident 8 years ago, became the first person to have a chip implanted in his brain by Neuralink. It is about the "brain-computer" interface (in the Neuralink version, the product is...

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"Policy changed": anonymous employer review site Glassdoor has started de-anonymizing employees

The platform for publishing anonymous reviews about employers, Glassdoor, has started adding real names to user profiles without their consent. As a result, some openly call for deleting their account and data on the site. One of the first to serious...

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AI Act - approved. So what will change (and what won't) the first full-fledged AI Act in the EU?

Last week, the EU Parliament voted to adopt the Artificial Intelligence Act, first introduced three years ago—essentially completing the final bureaucratic hurdle, and now approaching official implementation. The law will come into force somewhere in...

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OpenAI will likely release a "substantially better" GPT-5 in the summer of 2024

According to sources close to the company, OpenAI is preparing to release the next version of its large language model GPT-5 in the coming months, possibly by mid-year, as reported by Business Insider. It is reported that some corporate clients have ...

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NVIDIA and Ubisoft are working on NEO NPCs - characters with AI that can react to players and environments

NVIDIA has been working on adding generative AI to non-player characters (NPCs) for some time now. During the Game Developers Conference, it showcased how developers can use its "digital human" artificial intelligence tools for voice acting, animatio...

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Google Deepmind and Liverpool FC have created an artificial intelligence-powered soccer coach

Google DeepMind and the Premier League club Liverpool have developed a prototype of the artificial intelligence model TacticAI for football training. The DeepMind laboratory, which previously used AI for complex board games like Go, notes that AI can...

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Nvidia's artificial intelligence can turn game characters into chatbots - NPCs with "unique" interactions

During the Game Developers Conference, Nvidia demonstrated how developers can use its artificial intelligence tools for "digital humans" to voice, animate, and create dialogues for video game characters. Nvidia showed a video of the technical demo of...

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