Cohere says rivals are building Bugatti sports cars, ‘We make F150s’

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cohere President Martin Kon says a lot of the hot artificial intelligence startups on the market today are building the equivalent of fancy sports cars. His product, he says, is more like a heavy-duty truck. “If you’re looking for vehicles for your field technical service department, and I … Read more

Microsoft introduces Copilot AI chatbot for finance workers

Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president for business applications and platforms at Microsoft, speaks at a press event in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2024. Jordan Novet | CNBC Microsoft on Thursday announced that it will release a Copilot chatbot that can perform key tasks for people working in finance. The software company will first offer … Read more

Honor to launch its first foldable flip phone to challenge Samsung

Honor already has a number of smartphones on the market that fold like a book, such as the Magic V2 that was launched in July 2023 shown here. The Chinese tech company is now preparing to launch a vertical-folding style smartphone, its CEO George Zhao told CNBC at the Mobile World Congress. Honor BARCELONA — … Read more

Augmented reality glasses with AI voice assistant

The Oppo Air Glass 3 is a prototype set of augmented reality (AR) glasses with a voice assistant. Oppo BARCELONA – Oppo on Monday unveiled a prototype set of augmented reality (AR) glasses with a voice assistant, underscoring how electronics giants are trying to infuse artificial intelligence across their products to stand out. Oppo, a … Read more

Honor shows off tech in Magic 6 Pro to control a car with your eyes

Honor demonstrated how its smartphone eye-tracking technology could be used to control a car. Honor BARCELONA — Chinese firm Honor on Sunday showed off technology that allows a user to control a car just by using their eyes. The company’s Magic 6 Pro device launched internationally on Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, … Read more

What is an AI smartphone? Samsung, major players talk up tech

Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Samsung, the world’s most prolific smartphone maker, is leaning into artificial intelligence as the key to unlocking greater sales this year. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial … Read more

Nvidia shares pop 12% in premarket trade after AI-fueled bumper earnings

Jensen Huang, president of Nvidia, holding the Grace hopper superchip CPU used for generative AI at the Supermicro keynote presentation during Computex 2023. Walid Berrazeg | Lightrocket | Getty Images Nvidia shares jumped more than 12% in premarket trade on Thursday after the chip giant posted bumper earnings that beat Wall Street estimates. The U.S. … Read more

Tech and AI companies sign accord to combat election-related deepfakes

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Denis Balibouse | Reuters A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in 2024 elections. The industry is specifically targeting deepfakes, which use deceptive … Read more

OpenAI’s new tool lets you create realistic video by typing a sentence

A Samoyed and a Golden Retriever dog are playfully romping through a futuristic neon city at night. OpenAI OpenAI, which burst into the mainstream last year thanks to the popularity of ChatGPT, is bringing its artificial intelligence technology to video. The company on Thursday introduced Sora, its new generative AI model. Sora works similarly to … Read more

Nvidia holdings disclosure pumps up shares of small AI companies

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the Supermicro keynote presentation during the Computex conference in Taipei on June 1, 2023. Walid Berrazeg | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Investors have become so enamored with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence story that they want a piece of anything the chipmaker touches. On Wednesday, Nvidia disclosed in … Read more