UK’s first video call via satellite made from Welsh mountain
[ad_1] Satellite connectivity enables ordinary phones to operate as normal with full internet access when there is otherwise no coverage. Many iPhones and Android devices already have emergency satellite connectivity, but it is currently text message based. Vodafone says it has now gone further with a video call between a company engineer in a not […]
DeepSeek: Is China’s AI tool as good as it seems?
[ad_1] DeepSeek, a Chinese AI-chatbot app which launched last week, has sparked chaos in the US markets and raised questions about the future of America’s AI dominance. The BBC takes a look at how the app works. DeepSeek looks and feels like any other chatbot, though it leans towards being overly chatty. Just as with […]
Trump says Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok
[ad_1] Despite granting TikTok a 75-day reprieve from the ban, Trump had been the first president to start pressuring ByteDance to sell its app. In August 2020, ByteDance approached Microsoft as a possible buyer – something which the US company’s chief executive later described as “the strangest thing“. Later, TikTok chose rival Oracle as a […]
DeepSeek AI shakes American swagger and upends assumptions
[ad_1] The speed at which the new Chinese AI app DeepSeek has shaken the technology industry, the markets and the bullish sense of American superiority in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been nothing short of stunning. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen may have said it best. “DeepSeek-R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted to […]
DeepSeek: Trump warns of ‘wake-up call’ for US tech firms
[ad_1] DeepSeek is powered by the open source DeepSeek-V3 model, which its researchers claim was trained for around $6m (£4.2m) – significantly less than the billions spent by rivals. But this claim has been disputed by others in AI. Its emergence comes as the US is restricting the sale of the advanced chip technology that […]
DeepSeek: ‘Cheap’ Chinese chatbot shocks AI world
[ad_1] After DeepSeek-R1 was launched earlier this month the company boasted of, external “performance on par with” one of ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s latest models – when used for tasks such as maths, coding and natural language reasoning. Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Donald Trump advisor Marc Andreessen described DeepSeek-R1 as “AI’s Sputnik moment”, external, in […]
Clampdown on fake Google reviews announced
[ad_1] It is not the first pledge to tackle fake reviews, a problem which artificial intelligence (AI) is exacerbating. Amazon and Google have been under investigation by the CMA over fake reviews since June, 2021 – months after the consumer group Which? concluded Google was failing to do enough to combat fake reviews within its […]
X ‘refused to take down’ video viewed by Southport killer
[ad_1] After the attack on the bishop, which was livestreamed, eSafety said it worked “collaboratively where possible” with technology companies to remove the video from platforms. “Immediately following the Wakeley attack, companies including Google, Microsoft, Snap and TikTok acted quickly to cooperate with eSafety and ensure the Wakeley stabbing video could not be accessed from […]
ChatGPT back online after outage which hit thousands worldwide
[ad_1] Some of those posting on X about the outage were able to see the funny side of the situation, however. “ChatGPT is down again? During the work day? So you’re telling me I have to… THINK?!”, joked one user., external ChatGPT’s status page said at the time the app had been “experiencing elevated error […]
Three investigates 999 calls not getting through during outage
[ad_1] There were also been several thousand reports from users of Smarty and ID Mobile – smaller mobile companies which use Three’s network. Storm Éowyn has also caused problems for Three on Friday. A spokesperson from Three said: “Following an issue affecting voice calls yesterday, our services are now fully back to normal, apart from […]