At the speed of AI, the story at OpenAI moves at lightning speed. Hundreds of OpenAI employees signed a letter demanding the OpenAI board resign or face an employee exodus to Sam Altman’s new venture at Microsoft ‘imminently‘. The board then attempted to negotiate Altman’s return, but those talks wereRead More →
Microsoft has confirmed problems with accessing its Xbox gaming platform and Teams messaging app in the UK and Europe have now been resolved. More than 1500 people in the UK reported issues with Xbox Live, according to the outage tracker Downdetector. A similar number also said there were problems withRead More →
An old well established and trusted tech brand pivoting to AI that has a high dividend yield is IBM, which has been around for more than a century and is known for both its hardware and software products. IBM is investing heavily in AI, cloud computing, and quantum computing, and hasRead More →
The idea is simple – pick good companies and hold them for the long-term. Every time you buy shares in a company, you have purchased a piece of that company. And as a share owner, you are entitled to a ‘share’ of the profits. When it comes to investing, theRead More →
Apple and generative AI technology is a topic that has been generating a lot of interest and speculation lately. According to various reports, Apple is working on developing its own large language model and chatbot, which could potentially enhance its products and services with new features and capabilities. However, someRead More →
The Magnificent Seven tech stocks These are the seven largest U.S. listed companies in the technology sector. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta Platforms. According to a report released Monday 2nd October 2023, these tech’ stocks have seen their valuation drop relative to the median stock in theRead More →
I can see and hear and speak… OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now ‘see, hear and speak,’ or, at least, understand spoken words, respond with a synthetic voice and process images, the company announced Monday 25th September 2023. The update to the chatbot OpenAI’s biggest since the introduction of GPT-4, allows users to opt intoRead More →
The history of the internet is a fascinating story of how various computer networks around the world were interconnected to form a global system of communication and information exchange. Timeline in brief 1950’s The origins of the internet can be traced back to the 1950s, when the Cold War betweenRead More →
E-commerce conglomerate Amazon announced on Monday 25th September 2023 that it will invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic, a rival to ChatGPT developer OpenAI, and take a minority ownership position in the company. The move further enforces Amazon’s aggressive AI push as it aims toRead More →
Reports suggest as much as $3 trillion is waiting on the sidelines to be invested in tech’. AI FOMO The reasoning is that AI is driving a fear of missing out (FOMO). We could very well be experiencing the fourth industrial revolution right now, and it is AI-driven. Strategically, companiesRead More →
Tech’ investor and disruptor Cathie Wood is an American investor and the founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, an investment management firm that focuses on disruptive innovation. She is known for her bullish views on Tesla, DeepMind, and many other AI companies. DeepMind and Tesla Cathie Wood is a fanRead More →
Top tech stocks The Magnificent Seven is a term to describe seven tech’ stocks that have been surging in 2023. Dominant These seven stocks are considered to be dominant in their respective fields and have strong growth prospects driven by innovation and artificial intelligence (AI). They have outperformed the broaderRead More →
More than 6 million users already Baidu also announced that more than 6 million users have used an AI powered tool that sits inside its Google drive-like cloud product. At the 4th September event, Baidu also demonstrated ‘displayed generative’ AI-based products that could assist with traffic management, financial research andRead More →
Think of the biggest market for a physical product you can possibly imagine – are you thinking mobile phones, cars or game devices even? Think again…? They are all big commercial markets but in the coming decades a new product is coming and it will be so desirable that itRead More →
Nvidia shares rose 4.2% Tuesday 29th August 2023 to close at a record high, after the company announced a partnership with Google that could expand distribution of its artificial intelligence technology (AI). The stock’s bountiful run continued, now up 234% in 2023, making it by far the best performer in the S&P 500.Read More →
Technology giant Nvidia reports its sales have hit a record after more than doubling as demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips take off! It figures The company says revenue jumped to above $13.5bn (£10.6bn) for the three months to the end of June. Nvidia also expects sales to performRead More →
Brief ARM history Arm is a British semiconductor and software design company that is known for its Arm processors, which are widely used in smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices. Arm was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer, and VLSI Technology. The company wasRead More →
Amazon is one of the leading companies in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and has been developing its own custom chips to power its AI applications and services. Amazon’s AI chips are designed to perform tasks such as natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, and machine learning inferenceRead More →
The U.S. cyber hacker challenge is a new initiative launched by the Biden administration in August 2023 to use artificial intelligence (AI) to protect critical U.S. infrastructure from cybersecurity risks. The challenge will offer $20 million in prize money and includes collaboration from leading AI companies Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI,Read More →
Revenue up 50% year-on-year, thanks to Zelda Nintendo Co. has reported a new high for its first-quarter profit, thanks to the blockbuster launch of its latest Legend of Zelda game. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, released in May 2023, sold more than 18.5 million copies in theRead More →
The entrepreneur Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink, has revealed his latest venture: xAI, a new artificial intelligence company that aims to “understand the true nature of the universe”. Musk announced the formation of xAI on Wednesday on Twitter and on the company’s official website, whichRead More →
Baidu said its AI system called Ernie 3.5 outperformed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT4 in several key areas. ERNIE – Enhanced Language RepresentatioN with Informative Entities Ernie was first introduced in 2019, and since then, Baidu has been improving and upgrading it with new versions. The latest version, Ernie 3.5, was announcedRead More →
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, which is the ability of machines to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. AI can involve various aspects of cognition, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, problem-solving, and even creativity. Types of AI AI can be classified into different types based on the level ofRead More →