Apple teased AI improvements, including the M4’s neural engine, at its iPad event

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

Tuesday’s theme focused on the new hardware devices themselves — devices like new iPads and an updated Apple Pencil — not on the AI advances Apple is making under the hood.
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OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

OpenAI says that it’s developing a tool to let creators better control how their content’s used in training generative AI. Called Media Manager, the tool — once it’s released — will allow creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how they want those works to be included or excluded from […]
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Behind Nigeria’s Arrest of Binance Employee, Claims of a Bribe Request

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

A compliance officer for the cryptocurrency exchange told senior executives and Nigerian contacts that the company had been asked to pay $150 million in crypto.

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OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence.

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The Australian Government’s Manufacturing Objectives Rely on IT Capabilities

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

The intent of the Future Made in Australia Act is to build manufacturing capabilities across all sectors, which will likely lead to more demand for IT skills and services.

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Exclusive: Wayve co-founder Alex Kendall on the autonomous future for cars and robots

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve started life as a software platform loaded into a tiny electric ‘car’ called a Renault Twizy. Festooned with cameras, the company’s co-founders and PhD graduates, Alex Kendall and Amar Shah, tuned the deep-learning algorithms powering the car’s autonomous systems until they’d got it to drive around the medieval city unaided. […]
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Here’s everything Apple just announced at its Let Loose event, including new iPad Pro with M4 chip, iPad Air, Apple Pencil and more

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

Today is Apple iPad Event day, and we’re bringing you all the iPad goodness you can stand, summed up in a convenient package.
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UK startup gets $1bn funding for self-driving car tech

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

The funding being given to Wayve represents the biggest ever investment in a European AI firm.

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Gartner: 4 Bleeding-Edge Technologies in Australia

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

Gartner recently identified emerging tech that will impact enterprise leaders in APAC. Here’s what IT leaders in Australia need to know about these innovative technologies.

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Wiz raises $1B at a $12B valuation to expand its cloud security platform through acquisitions

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Techme101

Wiz, the buzzy startup building an all-in-one cloud security platform, is on an acquisition march to expand its business quickly en route to an IPO. Now, it has closed a major round of funding of $1 billion to help on that march. The Series E — co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive […]
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