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Tech News of the week: Bard is now Gemini, OpenAI’s CEO seeks trillion dollars in funding and more | Technology News

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

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Year in Review: The biggest tech stories of 2023 | News

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

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Spring Budget puts UK on fast-track to becoming science and technology superpower

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

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OpenAI introduces voice and image prompts to ChatGPT | Technology News

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

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Tech companies sign pact to combat AI-generated election deepfakes

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

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Tech layoffs: 89% of IT professionals in US worried about job loss in 2024, study finds | Technology News

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

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Empire Energy discusses looming gas shortfalls across Australia


Empire Energy Limited (ASX:EEG) CEO Alex Underwood discusses the implications of gas shortfalls across Australia and possible sources for new supply.

Paul Sanger: I’m Paul Sanger for the Finance News Network, and today I’m talking to Empire Energy (ASX:EEG). Empire Energy, trading under the ASX code “EEG” with a market capitalisation of $135m is a Sydney-based Australian oil and gas company holding 100 per cent owned and operated assets with unconventional targets in the Northern Territory Beetaloo sub-basin, and central trough of the McArthur Basin. Joining me is today is Empire Energy Chief Executive Officer Alex Underwood. Alex, welcome

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Best of CES 2024: The 23 top gadgets

We all knew going into CES 2024 that AI was going to be a huge theme, but artificial intelligence was so prevalent at this year’s show it became dizzying. It seemed that every single product had AI inside, from AI bird feeders and snore tracking pillows to TVs and even NPCs within games.

So which gadgets actually lived up to the hype? Tom’s Guide’s editors met with dozens of companies and went hands on with lots of new products to bring you our Best of CES 2024 list. LG’s transparent OLED was all the buzz for its stunning design, and

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