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South Korea aims to secure 10,000 GPUs for national AI computing centre

February 17 2025 | TW News Correspondent

South Korea on Monday announced plans to secure 10,000 high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) within this year in a bid to keep pace as the global AI race escalates.

"As competition for dominance in the AI industry intensifies, the competitive l...
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New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea

February 17 2025 | TW News Correspondent

South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said new downloads of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek had been suspended in the country after DeepSeek acknowledged failing to take into account some of the agency's rules on protecting personal data.

The service of the app will be resumed once improvements are made in accordance with the country's privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Commissio...
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Meta plans investments into AI-driven humanoid robots, memo shows

February 16 2025 | TW News Correspondent

 

Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab is establishing a new division within its Reality Labs unit to develop AI-powered humanoid robots that can assist with physical tasks, according to an internal company memo viewed by Reuters on Friday.

Facebook parent Meta is entering the competitive field of humanoid roboti...
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Apple aims to bring AI features and spatial content app to Vision Pro, Bloomberg reports

February 16 2025 | TW News Correspondent

Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab is planning to add Apple Intelligence to its Vision Pro headset, along with an updated mode for guest users and a spatial content app as early as April, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.

The company plans to roll out the features as part of a software upgrade and they could be available in beta version for developers as soon as thi...
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Elon Musk says xAI's Grok 3 chatbot to be unveiled on Monday

February 16 2025 | TW News Correspondent

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Saturday that his xAI's artificial intelligence chatbot and ChatGPT challenger Grok 3 would be released with a live demo at 8 p.m. Pacific time on Monday (0400 GMT on Tuesday).

Earlier this week, Musk said Grok 3 was in the final stages of development and would be released in about a week or two. ‍Source...
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X Agrees to Pay $10 Million in Settlement Over Trump Lawsuit

February 13 2025 | TW News Correspondent

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, has agreed to pay $10 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by former U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Reuters also reported the development.

In January 2021, following the attack on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters, his account on...
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Adobe Unveils Firefly Video Model to Rival AI Video Tools

February 13 2025 | TW News Correspondent

Adobe has introduced an AI-powered video generation tool called Firefly Video Model, aiming to compete with OpenAI’s Sora and startup Runway, according to a report by Reuters.

The AI model is designed to integrate with Adobe’s Premiere Pro software, assisting filmmakers and television producers in enha...
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OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says

February 12 2025 | TW News Correspondent

OpenAI's board has not yet received a formal bid from an Elon Musk-led consortium, although a lawyer for the billionaire said the offer had been sent to OpenAI's outside c...
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Baidu CEO says more AI spend still needed despite DeepSeek's success

February 11 2025 | TW News Correspondent

Investment in data centres and cloud infrastructure is still needed despite DeepSeek challenging the cost efficiency of large AI models, Baidu (9888.HK), opens new tab CEO...
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