Tag: ChatGPT
Tech Digest daily roundup: Elon Musk among those calling for halt in AI training
Key figures in artificial intelligence want training of powerful AI systems to be suspended amid fears of a threat to humanity. They have signed an open letter warning of potential risks, and say the race to develop AI systems is out of control. Twitter chief Elon Musk is among those who want training of AIs…
Tech Digest daily roundup: TikTok faces gruelling US congressional hearing
Bruising, damaging, relentless. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced four-and-a-half hours of questioning at a US congressional hearing on Thursday. As one congressman pointed out, some people run marathons quicker than that. Mr Chew will certainly be feeling it, after a torrid time giving evidence. Many tech execs have stood before Congress, and they often…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Ford’s EV business has lost $3 billion
Ford Motor Co.'s electric vehicle business has lost $3 billion before taxes during the past two years and will lose a similar amount this year as the company invests heavily in the new technology. The figures were released Thursday as Ford rolled out a new way of reporting financial results. The new business structure separates…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Donald Trump’s YouTube account reinstated
YouTube has reinstated Donald Trump's account following a two-year suspension from the video-sharing platform. The move follows similar decisions taken by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Elon Musk-owned Twitter. The former US president was banned from posting YouTube videos in January 2021, with YouTube saying at the time that his channel had broken…
Tech Digest daily roundup: UK Space Agency gives Rolls-Royce funding for nuclear reactor on moon
Rolls-Royce's vision of a lunar colony Rolls-Royce has received funding to build a nuclear reactor for a base on the moon. It might sound like the setup of a James Bond film, but is in fact part of a very real-world project that aims to see humans living and working on the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Virgin Orbit pauses all operations
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit has admitted it is close to running out of money as it told staff they will stop getting paid within days. The rocket launch company, which in January led a botched mission to fire satellites into orbit from the UK, is racing to shore up its finances and said on Thursday…
Tech Digest daily roundup: WhatsApp could be banned in UK, claims Meta boss
WhatsApp could be banned in the UK, its head has warned. The UK’s upcoming Online Safety Bill could force the app to weaken the end-to-end encryption that currently secures messages on the service, said Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp at parent company Meta. If the government forced the company to weaken that security, WhatsApp…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple launches yellow iPhone 14
I'm a little disappointed that Apple didn't give a name to the yellow it splashed on its iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. It's just yellow, or Yellow iPhone 14. At least the really deep blue got 'Midnight' but Apple clearly had no interest in something like "Banana Yellow," "Sunflower Yellow," or "Merengue Yellow." The new color variant,…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Could traffic lights become obsolete?
Traffic lights could be made obsolete within 20 years, an engineer has claimed, after a landmark trial of driverless vehicles in the UK. The two-year trial saw two self-driving cars built by Nissan complete hundreds of laps round a 2.7-mile long route in Woolwich, southeast London. Believed to be the UK's first trial of driverless…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google AI chatbot error knocks $100bn off shares
Google is searching for ways to reassure people that it is still out in front in the race for the best artificial intelligence technology. And so far, the internet giant seems to be coming up with the wrong answer. An advert designed to show off its new AI bot, showed it answering a query incorrectly.…