SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 — For most of the past year and a half, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has fielded questions from Wall Street analysts about his plans for artificial intelligence amid grumbling that the iPhone maker has no AI story to tell. After the company reported quarterly earnings yesterday, Cook insisted that Apple … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 16 — Microsoft yesterday shook up the video game world with word it is making some once-exclusive Xbox video games available for play on rival consoles. Xbox head Phil Spencer did not specify which titles were expanding beyond the Xbox, but the Verge, citing unnamed sources, said they will be Hi-Fi Rush, … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The Thai government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani (BRN) have reached an agreement in principle on the Joint Comprehensive Plan toward Peace (JCPP), which will be endorsed in the near future. The Malaysian Facilitator for the peace dialogue process in Southern Thailand, Gen (R) Tan Sri Zulkifli Zainal … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 19 — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said his company is joining the pursuit of creating super artificial intelligence, putting it in a race with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google. Sometimes called artificial general intelligence or AGI, the goal, given in an interview with The Verge, is to create AI that can … Read more
PUTRAJAYA, Nov 26 — Prime Minister and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today criticised his party’s members for dancing to the Opposition’s tune, saying they tend to panic when rivals play up issues such as race or religion. In a fiery speech delivered to end this year’s congress, the PKR president said the government … Read more
BEIJING, Oct 18 — Chinese internet giant Baidu unveiled the newest version of its AI chatbot ERNIE yesterday, claiming it rivals the capabilities of OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT. Baidu led Chinese tech firms in rolling out generative artificial intelligence apps, which are trained on vast amounts of data and interactions with users to answer questions, even … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25 ― TikTok, the social platform known for its addictive video content, announced yesterday that it will offer text-only posts, becoming the latest tech giant to offer an alternative to embattled Twitter. The text posts on TikTok will most closely resemble similar offerings on Instagram, which earlier this month also launched a … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 17 ― Google rivals on Thursday unveiled a project to make freely available data sets for map features to be built into online offerings. Alphabet-owned Google dominates online mapping, selling its services to other companies or platforms and using location and navigation capabilities to enhance its other offerings, including online advertising. Meta, … Read more
BAFOUSSAM, Cameroon: Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Naby Keita became rivals on Friday, captaining Senegal and Guinea in a drab 0-0 Group B matchday 2 deadlock at the Africa Cup of Nations. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
MANCHESTER: English football treasures the packed programme of action over the festive season and, despite the disruption of Covid-19 and the complaints of some managers, it again delivered in spades. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
