Category: computing

OpenAI announces new ‘deep research’ tool for ChatGPT

Tokyo (AFP) – US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called “deep research” ahead of high-level meetings in Tokyo, as China’s DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the AI field. OpenAI’s ChatGPT fronted generative AI’s emergence into public…
DeepSeek shock shows Europe not out of AI race: experts

Paris (AFP) – China-based DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence model has shaken the sector by offering high performance apparently at a fraction of the cost of those developed by US giants, with many experts saying the release also hints at opportunity for investment…
US announces new restrictions on AI chip exports

Washington (AFP) – The United States unveiled new export rules Monday on chips used for artificial intelligence, furthering efforts to make it tough for China and other rivals to access the advanced technology in Joe Biden’s final days as president. The…
Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

San Francisco (AFP) – Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality Google says the Willow chip has it confidently on a path…
ChatGPT Down As Anonymous Sudan Hackers Claim Responsibility

OpenAI suggested that the significant outages on November 8, experienced by users across ChatGPT and the application programming interface, were caused by a suspected distributed denial-of-service attack, and a group calling itself Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility In a Telegram channel…
EU privacy watchdog sets up ChatGPT task force

Paris (AFP) – The European Union’s central data regulator said Thursday that it was forming a task force to help countries deal with wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, ramping up the pressure on its US maker OpenAI. Italy temporarily banned the…