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OpenAI launched a special version of its ChatGPT AI chatbot for use within businesses. The new bot, called ChatGPT Enterprise, can help workers craft clearer communications, speed up coding tasks, explore answers to complex business […]
How X change will impact the quality of information online
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is in the early stages of changing how it displays links to external websites. The goal is to remove all headlines and subheadings (the short description that appears […]
Meta’s Threads web is coming soon (to your Desktop)
Meta’s Threads, which launched last month, will introduce a web version of the app. The site, Threads.net, is set to launch in the coming days, a spokesperson told CNBC. Threads made a fairly epic debut […]
Tech lessons from BRICS Nations
In future, we will look back at the BRICS gathering in South Africa as something that changed the world. Its impact will depend on some of the key issues that will be discussed and implemented. […]
Why Google could emerge as the leader in the AI race
Google is reportedly building a family of new large language models that will be hard for competitors—namely OpenAI—to mimic. The new LLMs, collectively called “Gemini,” will reportedly function as massively powerful word predictors, but also […]
Beware: Dangers are lurking everywhere on Digital platforms
The internet has played a critical role in enabling access to information and opportunities. It has also exposed many to dangers that are getting worse the more we adopt it as our source of information […]
Zoom Data hunger may trigger the end of Big Tech AI’s data grab
The large language models that power ChatGPT and other chatbots get their mastery of language from essentially two things: massive amounts of training data scraped from the web, and massive amounts of compute power to […]
GEM increases Investment Commitment for inGen Dynamics to $150 Million, Accelerating the AI and Robotics Evolution
The canvas of AI and robotics is being ceaselessly painted with strokes of ingenuity and promise. At the forefront of this transformation is a pioneering company, inGen Dynamics.Founded in 2015, inGen stands at the confluence […]
Anna Stukkert is leading a philanthropy group for elderly and disabled in Germany
Anna Stukkert, Klara Pecherskay and Boris Fishman created a social project, a philanthropist community fund in Munich Germany. “Tjoply Dom bei Anja” is a club for seniors who live and appreciate life. The senior club […]
AI Chatbots may be coming to Facebook soon
Meta could be on the verge of jumping back into the AI chatbot battles—and bringing a former president along with it. A report in the Financial Times says the social media company plans to launch […]
Here comes the Tik Tok version of Twitter
With Twitter busy rebranding itself as the letter X, TikTok announced that it’s “thrilled” this morning to get to reveal a new feature that “broadens options for creators to share their ideas.” Called a text […]
Google AI wants to write news articles
Recently I attended a briefing by Google executives on the sidelines of the Google IO event in San Francisco, US. The star of the moment was Google CEO, Sundar Pichai accompanied by his executives. What […]
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to tackle ChatGPT
Meta has released a new set of large language models (LLMs), collectively called Llama 2, that could challenge the leading OpenAI GPT-4 model in language performance, and Meta is open-sourcing the new models so that […]
Hands on with the Samsung S23 Ultra : FC Reviews
When I first saw the Samsung S23 Ultra I thought its size would appeal to business users. After using it for weeks my theory was validated. The device has everything you expect in an Android […]
Researchers are concernced about data transparency on Threads
Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor, continues to grow at an astonishing rate: In the week since the app was released, it has already amassed over 100 million users. But for all that Threads might offer […]
Threads: The imminent Twitter alternative by the Zuckerberg company
Twitter’s no good, very bad week just got worse. While Elon Musk was busy placing limits on the number of tweets users can now view each day, Instagram owner Meta was quietly preparing an imminent […]
Inside efforts to develop an Artificial Intelligence driven South Africa
Last week, South Africa took an integral step towards laying a solid foundation in creating an Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven society. Although there are AI companies in South Africa, the country is constrained by lack […]
How an old-school lawyer and financier is rehabilitating a controversial industry, but with mixed results
How excited would you be about the industry you work in if your profit potential formulaically contracted quadrennially, super powerful politicians hated it, and you knew the actual date on which it would cease to […]
The Tech behind Africa’s wildlife protection
Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) and Connected Conservation Foundation are protecting the most vulnerable animals and natural resources in Kenya with Africa’s largest landscape-wide Internet of Things conservation network. The project aims to enhance wildlife and […]
Body Cameras and the Future of Law Enforcement
In the very near future, you will be arrested by a robot. It will use a facial recognition feature in its camera which will be attached to the steel body to detect criminals based on […]
Meet the Web3 Trailblazers from the Indonesian Archipelago
Get ready to meet a unique breed of trailblazers of the tech world in Southeast Asia. WIR Group Indonesia is taking the lead in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. […]
Lessons from one of the first metaverse platforms, SecondLife.
This coming week, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to congregate with their avatars in Second Life to celebrate the pioneering virtual world’s 20th birthday. There will be live music, DJs, dance performances, and […]
The New Apple Vision PRO – Explained
When Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, was launching the Apple Vision PRO (a new virtual reality headset) he was not only launching a new product. The leader of one of the most loved brands in […]
Everything announced by Apple at WWDC 2023
Apple had a lot to say at its Worldwide Developers Conference this year. After years of speculation, the company finally rolled out its AR/VR/XR headset, along with new MacBooks, a new iOS for iPhone, and […]
