This year, the stock price of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has increased by over 130%, outpacing both the broader indexes and its larger competitors. George Kurtz, the CEO, discusses the company’s accomplishments and the significance of cybersecurity for national security. George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, has had an incredible year. The cybersecurity company’s stock price has…
As pressure grows on Google to explain how it plans to monetize artificial intelligence, the company is launching what it believes to be its largest and most capable model. Three sizes will be available for the large language model Gemini: Gemini Ultra, which is the largest and most capable category; Gemini Pro, which scales across…
An often-overlooked but crucially important environmental issue—Big Tech’s growing water footprint—is coming under more public scrutiny as a result of a global rush to capitalize on the next wave of generative artificial intelligence. Researchers say the race to profit from the next wave of AI is one of the main causes of the significant increase…
Yann LeCun, the chief scientist at Meta and a pioneer in deep learning, stated that he thinks it will take decades for current AI systems to resemble sentient beings with common sense and the capacity to do more than just creatively summarize massive amounts of text. His viewpoint differs from that of Nvidia CEO Jensen…
The startup OpenAI announced early on Wednesday morning on X that Sam Altman will be returning to his role as CEO. The action was taken in response to intense pressure from the board’s investors and staff, who removed him less than a week ago. The Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI announced that Bret Taylor, a former co-CEO…
The United Kingdom’s government announced that it will invest £225 million, or $273 million, in artificial intelligence supercomputer. This move underscores the nation’s goal of becoming the technological leader as it tries to catch up to China and the United States. The supercomputer, named Isambard-AI after the British engineer of the 19th century, Isambard Brunel,…
Google turned 25 on September 27, 2023, and is celebrating its birthday with a doodle. Everyone’s favorite search engine, Google, turned 25 and is celebrating its birthday with a doodle. “Walking down memory lane”, the company presented various doodles over the years for its birthday. The latter comes with a GIF changing “Google” to “G25gle”…
The African Union has become the second regional group to be admitted to full membership of the Group of 20 leading industrialized and developing countries, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday at the start of the two-day G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi. The widely expected move underscores India’s broad agenda to shift the…
Chinese tech giant Tencent will launch its “Hunyuan” artificial intelligence model for enterprises at its annual summit on Thursday, said Dowson Tong, chief executive of Tencent’s cloud and intelligence industry group. The news comes a few days after Baidu unveiled a slew of AI-powered apps on Tuesday because of more supportive regulation. Tencent said it…
Alibaba launched a new artificial intelligence model that the company says can understand images and hold more complex conversations than the company’s previous products, as the global race for technology leadership heats. The Chinese tech giant said its two new models, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, are open source, meaning researchers, researchers and companies around the world…
