Apple will invest up to $1.5 billion in Globalstar to fund the expansion of its iPhone communication services, the satellite provider said in a regulatory filing on Friday.
Alphabet’s Google on Thursday announced a set of features that incorporated Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot, into its suite of mapping applications.
Britain’s Vodafone said on Tuesday it has deepened its strategic partnership with Alphabet’s Google in a ten-year, billion dollar plus deal that will bring the U.S. tech giant’s new generative AI-powered devices to customers across Europe and Africa.
Facebook owner Meta announced on Friday it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from leading media generation startups like OpenAI and ElevenLabs.
TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance plans to develop an AI model trained primarily with chips from compatriot Huawei Technologies, said three people familiar with the matter, as U.S. curbs turn the social media giant homeward in search of chips.
Tokyo-based artificial intelligence firm Sakana AI has raised over $100 million in a Series A funding round, with a mission to establish a cutting-edge AI lab in Japan.
Shares of Salesforce gained about 4% on Thursday as investors cheered the customer relationship management software maker’s upbeat quarterly results and its artificial intelligence push to drive growth.
Nvidia and Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity AI said on Thursday that it plans to introduce advertising on its artificial intelligence-powered search platform by the fourth quarter.
Cruise will offer its autonomous vehicles on ride-hailing platform Uber starting next year, the companies said on Thursday, as the General Motors-backed robotaxi firm attempts a comeback.
Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said that Signal, an encrypted messaging app, had been blocked in the country for violating laws linked to anti-terrorist operations, Interfax news agency reported on Friday.
Brazil’s government unveiled on Tuesday a 23 billion reais ($4.07 billion) proposal for an artificial intelligence (AI) investment plan aimed at developing sustainable and socially-oriented technologies.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia said on Thursday its operating profit fell 32% in the second quarter because of continued weak demand for 5G telecom equipment but forecast a demand improvement in the second half.
Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla.