The US transition to electric cars has hit a speed bump, with concerns about vehicle range and limited charging capacity adding to core affordability issues.
31.10.2023 - 17:57 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Elon Musk / Ai
It might be the last day of October, and Halloween, but artificial intelligence stops for no one. In today's big news, Microsoft's enterprise Copilot, the Microsoft 365 AI assistant, will be rolling out to businesses tomorrow, November 1. This tool will enable organizations to automate a number of time-consuming tasks such as summarizing video calls, drafting emails, and more. In other news, Elon Musk will do an interview alongside the UK PM Rishi Sunak. The Tesla CEO will also be participating in the UK AI Summit. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
Starting this Wednesday, businesses will get their hands on Microsoft's cool new tool, Enterprise Copilot, which is making quite a buzz in the AI world. Copilot is like having a super-smart AI assistant in the Microsoft 365 suite. It can do all sorts of handy stuff, like summarizing video calls, drafting email replies, and magically turning Word docs into PowerPoint presentations.
“There's an air of excitement and pent-up demand,” Chad Simpson, CIO of Florida-based home furnishings retailer CITY Furniture told The Wall Street Journal. He added that he believes one of the biggest benefits will come with reducing time on emails. “We feel like streamlining and summarizing email communication is going to be huge.”
Elon Musk is set to participate in the global AI summit, reports BBC. The summit, taking place at Bletchley Park, aims to convene AI experts and world leaders for discussions on the potential risks associated with artificial intelligence. Notably, US Vice-President Kamala Harris and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will also be in attendance. Additional key figures, including Open AI's Sam Altman and Meta's Nick Clegg, are expected to join this gathering, along with various other tech leaders.
In a post on X, Sunak announced his upcoming conversation with Elon Musk, scheduled for Thursday night after the AI Safety Summit.
On Tuesday, Alibaba unveiled its newest iteration of an artificial intelligence model as the Chinese tech giant seeks to rival its US counterparts, including Amazon and Microsoft, as per a report by Alibaba. The company, a major player in China's cloud computing and e-commerce industry, introduced Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its latest large language model (LLM). Large language models like this are trained on extensive datasets and serve as the foundation for generative AI applications, much like ChatGPT developed by US firm OpenAI.
Ocula Technologies, an AI company headquartered in Belfast, is set to inject 11 million pounds into research and development endeavors, reports BBC. The company is expanding its Software Development Centre and has ambitions to increase its workforce from 10 employees to
The US transition to electric cars has hit a speed bump, with concerns about vehicle range and limited charging capacity adding to core affordability issues.
Outcry over unchecked antisemitic content and commentary on social media site X, some of it endorsed by the platform's owner Elon Musk, reached a tipping point on Friday, with large advertisers such as Apple Inc. pulling ads and the White House chastising the billionaire.
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
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Billionaire Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X, the social media site he owns, that attacked members of the Jewish community for pushing “dialectical hatred” against white people.
The cosy relationship between Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. and China was on display again on Wednesday when President Xi Jinping expressed support for the US electric carmaker in China and Musk in turn expressed his gratitude for that warm reception.
SpaceX's ambitious project Starship may not have fared well in its first test flight, but there is reason for hope, as the rocket has received clearance from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The directive was given yesterday, November 15, and Elon Musk's SpaceX will now conduct its 2nd test launch to see whether the issues from the first test flight have been resolved or not. According to the company, it has scheduled the launch tomorrow, November 17, in a small two-hour window.
Executives from Microsoft Corp., Citigroup Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and other large multinationals are converging on San Francisco this week for an audience with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Asian leaders as long-frosty US-China relations show only tentative signs of warming.
Nvidia Corp., the world's most valuable chipmaker, is updating its H100 artificial intelligence processor, adding more capabilities to a product that has fueled its dominance in the AI computing market.
Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal is scheduled to visit the US from November 13-17 to attend the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) ministerial meeting and has been invited to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco.
A recent report highlighted that Elon Musk-owned SpaceX is on track to record a $9 billion revenue, with projections for operating profits. Its new venture, Starlink, the satellite internet service provider, has begun contributing to the revenue significantly now. Musk also has big plans for the venture as the company is expected to launch Starlink cellular service, which will provide satellite-based messaging and internet facilities to smartphones. The service is planned to be launched in 2024, but ahead of schedule, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has sent a set of questions to SpaceX over concerns around certain matters.
Elon Musk's Neuralink is getting ready to ‘mess' with people's heads - literally! The neurotechnology company received clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a few months ago and began recruiting volunteers for a groundbreaking procedure in September. However, this also coincided with a troublesome Wired report which raised questions over the nature of the death of Neuralink's test monkeys. Amidst the controversy, the company has reportedly received interest from thousands of applicants. Here's all about the procedure.