OpenAI is venturing into a territory long dominated by Google with the selective launch of SearchGPT, an artificial intelligence-powered search engine with real-time access to information from the internet. The move, announced on Thursday, also places the AI giant in competition with its largest b
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has been cleared to return to space by the U.S. aviation regulator after it was grounded by a rare mid-flight failure, the Federal Aviation administration (FAA) said on Thursday. The FAA said it did not find any public safety issues in the anomaly that occurred during the
More than 97 per cent of Windows sensors are back online, CrowdStrike's CEO George Kurtz said on Thursday, nearly a week after a software update by the cybersecurity firm triggered a global outage. The company's Falcon platform sensor is a security agent installed on devices such as laptops and de
Alphabet's Google unveiled a pair of artificial intelligence systems on Thursday that demonstrated advances in solving complex mathematical problems, a key frontier of generative AI development. The current class of AI models, which work by statistically predicting the next word, have struggled wi
Spain's antitrust regulator said on Wednesday it had opened an investigation into possible anti-competitive behaviour by Apple's app store. The CNMC, as the regulator is known, said Apple may have incurred anti-competitive practices when imposing unequal commercial conditions on developers of mobi
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has launched a poll asking users on social media platform X whether the electric carmaker should invest $5 billion in his artificial intelligence startup xAI - with early votes showing most in favour of the move. "Board approval & shareholder vote are needed, so this is just to
Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it decided to suspend the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in Brazil in response to the government's objections to its new privacy policy regarding personal data and AI. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT With more than 200 million people, Brazil is a crucial marke
Nearly a quarter of Japanese companies have adopted artificial intelligence (AI) in their businesses, while more than 40 per cent have no plan to make use of the cutting-edge technology, a Reuters survey showed on Thursday. The survey, conducted for Reuters by Nikkei Research, pitched a range of q
Britain's new Labour government has said it will explore how to effectively regulate artificial intelligence models, but stopped short of proposing any specific laws. King Charles set out newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer's legislative agenda in a speech on Wednesday to open the new sessio
Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it agreed to acquire Oxford Semantic Technologies, a British startup specialising in technology that can be used for more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Samsung did not disclose the value of the deal, as per Reuters report. Oxford Sem
