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Trump back with AI-generated images, posts fake Taylor Swift endorsement

Former President Donald Trump has been active on his social accounts as Democrats gather for their convention in Chicago, but some of his posts don't have much to do with reality. Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, he posted a fake image of someone who looks like Vice President Kamala Harris addressing what appears to be a communist rally in Chicago with a depiction of a red banner with a communist symbol. That followed his repost of a phony video of himself dancing next to billionaire Elon Musk, one of his most vocal supporters. Just before the convention kicked off, he reposted an image of Taylor Swift in an Uncle Sam outfit and accepted her endorsement for his campaign, which she had never given. They're the latest examples of how Trump is promoting images produced by artificial intelligence tools to attack his opponents or create illusions of support around his own campaign. It's in keeping with a long-standing strategy in which Trump amplifies messages from QAnon ...

OpenAI to allow corporates to customise its most powerful AI model

The move comes as startups face rising competition for their AI products for business, and businesses face growing pressure to demonstrate the gains from investment in AI

AI boom driving earnings growth for Europe's biggest industrial companies

Data center revenues for the six biggest electrical firms reached €20 billion ($22.2 billion) last year, double what they were five years earlier, according to Redburn Atlantic analyst James Moore

Most Australians worried about AI, new survey shows, media literacy vital

Most Australians are worried about artificial intelligence, new survey shows. Improved media literacy is vital

Govt invites bids to empanel AI infra providers under Rs 10,372cr mission

The government has invited bids for the empanelment of entities for providing artificial intelligence services on cloud under the Rs 10,372-crore India AI mission, which was approved by the cabinet in March this year. The empaneled agencies, like data centers and cloud service providers, will have to provide access to high-speed computing AI infrastructure like graphics processing unit (GPUs), accelerators, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), storage etc to academia, startups, researchers, government bodies among others at the lowest rate that will be discovered through the bidding process. Under the IndiaAI Mission, supercomputing capacity, comprising over 10,000 GPUs, will be made available to various stakeholders for creating an AI ecosystem. "With an objective to empanel service providers for making this possible, IndiaAI - an IBD under Digital India Corporation, MeitY has issued a RFE (request for empanelment)," Meity, Additional Secretary Abhishek Singh said in a social media ...

Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim to build, launch its first AI chip by 2026

Ola Cabs renamed as Ola Consumer

Apple may put advanced intelligence features behind a paywall in the future

Apple would eventually charge a fee to offer access to its advanced suite of AI features. However, the subscription model is not expected to be put in place during initial rollout phase

Samsung expands Circle to Search to Galaxy A-series smartphones, Tab S9 FE

Circle to Search feature has evolved since launch and it now supports full-page translation, homework help, and QR and barcode scanning capabilities

Cloud adoption surpassing AI; investments on rise, finds Wipro report

Cloud adoption in India is surpassing artificial intelligence adoption as more than half of the organisations surveyed plan to increase investment in cloud, IT major Wipro said in a report. The Pulse of Cloud: Quarterly Report July 2024 by Wipro FullStride Cloud drew insights from over 500 senior executives and decision-makers at medium large-scale enterprises across North America, the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland between May and June 2024. "A majority of organisations (55 per cent) report that their cloud adoption is ahead of their AI adoption, while 35 per cent say they are moving at the same pace with both technologies. "54 per cent of organisations plan to increase hybrid cloud investment and 56 per cent plan to increase investment in public cloud," the report said. Only 10 per cent of the respondents surveyed reported that their AI adoption is outpacing the cloud. "At Wipro, we see cloud economics as an intelligent management strategy that can better manage costs as ..

Pluckk implements computer vision tech to check defects in fruits, veggies

The farm-to-fork fruits and vegetable company said investing in such technologies is critical, as the firm is scaling up operations to meet diverse customer needs across retail, restaurants

Acer launches Chromebook Plus 14 and 15 laptops with built-in AI features

The Acer Chromebook Plus laptops feature the latest built-in gemini AI features and offer Google AI powered writing assistance, generative wallpapers and AI background for video calls

Files by Google could include Circle to Search and AI summaries: Report

Files by Google will reportedly allow using Circle to Search by tapping anywhere on the screen and the image is sent to Circle to Search without any Files by Google UI

Samsung to take on next-gen Apple iPhone SE with AI-backed Galaxy S24 FE

Reportedly, the Galaxy S24 FE will be more than a budget offering with upgrades spanning across almost all aspect, but most importantly, packed with full suite of Galaxy AI features

OpenAI offers DALL-E in free tier, but with daily limit on image generation

OpenAI launched the DALL-E 3 generative AI model in September last year. However, access to the third generation image generation model was limited to subscribers in paid tiers

CJI announces SC's second hackathon, says AI to streamline functioning

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Friday announced the second hackathon of the Supreme Court, which will focus on use of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the functioning of the top court. At the outset of the day's proceedings, the CJI said AI will be used to streamline the functioning of the apex court's Registry to deal with issues like removal of defects (in petitions) and formatting and sorting of the judicial records". The hackathon of the top court, which is being organised in the 75th year of the Supreme Court's establishment, will be held in association with the Centre's MyGov' application, Justice Chandrachud said. "This time the hackathon will focus on use of AI to streamline the functioning of the Registry (of the SC) for things like removal of defects and formatting and sorting of petitions. So we are completely moving to an AI-based model. I request all the innovative young minds to please participate... Last date to submit is August 31 and the ...

90% women view GenAI as crucial for career growth, says Nasscom-BCG report

As GenAI is projected to dominate 33 per cent of the global AI landscape by 2027, the AI market is expected to reach $320-380 billion, growing at a CAGR of 25-35 per cent, said the report

Reddit set to allow exclusive subreddits that are behind paywall: Report

Reddit might allow new kinds of subreddits which will require users to pay to access it. The company is also starting to use AI to generate summaries of content in search results

GenAI helped reduce customer support chat costs by 90%: Meesho CTO Barnwal

We continue to be the most downloaded shopping app for two to three consecutive years, he says

Tech layoffs continue: Dell to slash 12.5K jobs in restructuring for AI era

Dell executives Bill Scannell and John Byrne communicated the layoffs through an internal memo, titled "Global Sales Modernisation Update", on August 6

Samsung expands Galaxy AI 'Live Translate' to WhatsApp, Telegram, and Meet

In July, Samsung announced that the Live Translate feature will expand to third-party apps. WhatsApp is among the first wave of such third-party apps to support the Galaxy AI-powered feature