Amazon wants to bring a subscription to Alexa
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Because it thinks that will save it

Online book buyer, Amazon wants to save its flagging digital assistant Alexa by bringing in a subscription.

Apple claims its Intelligence is illegal in the EU
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Jobs’ Mob pauses European plans

The fruity cargo cult Apple has paused its “Apple Intelligence” roll out in Europe after claiming that its tech might be illegal.

Chinese come up with a new DeepSeek Coder
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Open saucy ChatGPT rival

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek, known for its ChatGPT rival trained on a massive 2 trillion English and Chinese tokens, has just unveiled DeepSeek Coder V2. This new release is an open-source code language model that uses a mixture of experts (MoE) approach.

The Dot.com bubble is not similar to what is happening with AI
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Cisco says everything is different

Nvidia needs to learn from what happened to Cisco in the 1990s if it does not want to repeat the network giant’s mistakes.

SoftBank develops AI to make angry customers sound calmer
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Taking the stress of call centre operators with an AI shield

SoftBank has developed AI voice-conversion technology to reduce call centre operators' psychological stress by altering the voices of angry customers to sound calmer.