At the forefront of all tech trends is artificial intelligence (AI), and its subset, generative AI, or gen AI, was where all the focus was in 2023. Come 2024, most conversations are likely to be based on realizing real-world, practical use cases of gen AI. Speaking about its adoption, John Roese, global chief technology officer (CTO) at Dell, said: “While generative AI has sparked incredibly creative ideas of how it will transform business and the world, there are very few real-world, scaled generative AI activities. 2024 will see the first wave of generative AI enterprise projects reach maturity levels that
The head of a top unit at the Department of Homeland Security says in a new interview that “sensitive” materials are showing up overseas — in Iranian weapons — in the latest warning about how US adversaries are believed to be trying to steal American technology .
“The Iranian drones that are being recovered on the battlefield in Ukraine, that are being recovered on the battlefield throughout the Middle East, they do have sensitive US communications systems and they have sensitive microelectronics,” Jim Mancuso, the assistant director of the Global Trade Division at Homeland Security Investigations, told ABC News.
Iran,
Tech News of the week in India: Google rebrands its generative AI-powered chatbot Bard, which is now called Gemini and the company has also released a new app for Android users and has integrated Gemini within the Google app for iPhone users, and Sam Altman is currently seeking a $7 trillion funding for a “wildly ambitious tech initiative.”
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Bard is now Gemini AI
Gemini is the new name of Google’s generative AI-powered chatbot, which is now available via the web, Android, and also for iOS users. There is a free Gemini tier and users can also get access to
Tech platforms dominate the headlines today and not all for the good reasons. From TikTok Shop being banned in Indonesia to Google’s ongoing lawsuit with the US Department of Justice for its adtech practices, it was an eventful 2023.
Scroll below for Campaign’s round-up of biggest tech stories that dominated news headlines in 2023.
1. The rise and rise of generative AI
China became the first country to publish rules and regulate the generative AI industry in August.
Since then companies like Silicon Intelligence and Xiaoice as well as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and JD have introduced AI-generated livestream services
Alongside tax cuts for workers, harnessing technology to benefit the public sector was at the heart of the Chancellor’s Spring Budget that will deliver the long-term change our country needs to deliver a brighter future for Britain, and improve economic security and opportunity for everyone.
An £800 million reform package will free-up time for staff at the frontline of public services including cutting results waiting times in the NHS and slashing admin tasks for the police.
In a further boost for the UK’s world-class life sciences sector, charities including Cancer Research UK will receive £45 million to help launch the
OpenAI is bringing audio and image capabilities to ChatGPT.
The platform, which has long been limited to written prompts, will be adding the new features over the next two weeks to paid versions of the app, OpenAI announced in a blog post on Monday.
Everyone else will be receiving the features “soon after”.
What can you do with ChatGPT’s update?
Users can have voice conversations with the chatbot, bringing it closer to popular AI assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa.
ChatGPT’s new voice feature can also narrate bedtime stories, settle debates at the dinner table and speak out
Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world.
Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Munich Security Conference to announce a new framework for how they respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters. Twelve other companies — including Elon Musk’s X — are also signing on to the accord.
“Everyone recognizes that no one tech company, no one government, no one civil society organization is able to deal with the advent of this
The spade of layoffs continues in the tech industry in the US. From big tech corporations to start-ups, enterprises at all levels seem to be swept away by the way of rampant layoffs adding to the woes of millions of employees.
In the first two months of 2024, we have seen about 193 companies laying off nearly 50,000 of their staff. Incidentally, in March so far seven companies have laid off close to 500 employees. Considering the rapid pace at which companies are resizing and undergoing an organizational overhaul, it seems there’s more to worry about for millions of tech