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• Nvidia unveils ‘Chat with RTX,’ a personal AI chatbot for Windows

  13-02-2024 22:19
  
  Nvidia on Tuesday announced a generative AI (genAI) chatbot that can run on Windows PCs, giving enterprises the potential to leverage AI on employees' local environments to bolster productivity rather than requiring them to access genAI tools on platforms hosted by providers such as OpenAI.The graphics chipmaker released Chat with RTX, a demo app now available for free download; it lets users personalize a chatbot with their own content, basically customizing the data sources of the bot's
  
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• How the NI Executive could raise £113m – and how it could affect you - Belfast Telegraph

  13-02-2024 19:00
  
  How the NI Executive could raise £113m – and how it could affect you  Belfast Telegraph
  
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• Apple is ramping up its fight against malware

  13-02-2024 18:42
  
  Ensuring platform security is hard, but when a company the stature of Apple begins to ramp up protection of its ecosystem, every IT decision maker should pay attention. Unfortunately, this is precisely what's happening: Apple is now updating fundamental protection at a faster clip than it's ever done before.Apple’s security teams are alert
  That important revelation comes from Howard Oakley at the excellent Eclectic Light Company blog. He notes that in the six weeks ending Feb. 9 Apple, ha
  
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• Will employees bow down to stricter RTO policies?

  13-02-2024 15:50
  
  There's a fight going on in the workplace and how it ends could shape what the office looks like for decades to come.Will employees be given the freedom to work from a location of their choosing? Or will a few, mostly larger organizations force employees back to commuting to the office, reversing the work-from-home revolution of the last four years?Though many employees have settled into a remote work groove, others have recently received word that new stricter policies are in effect.To read th
  
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• Otter.ai adds transcription archiving and recall across the enterprise

  13-02-2024 15:00
  
  Otter.ai, the real-time notetaking service, is seeking to shake up the enterprise transcription market with its new Meeting GenAI feature, which can capture, access, and immediately provide information from meetings across an organization.Meeting GenAI will be able to recall notes from another video conference, phone call, or in-person meeting from weeks earlier, for someone who wasn’t able to attend or who doesn’t remember what happened. This capability will work for a person sitti
  
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• The real problem with Google's new Gemini Android assistant

  13-02-2024 12:00
  
  I'll be honest: I was really hoping for an "aha!" moment over these past few days.Ever since Google made it clear that it was working to bring its next-gen generative AI chatbot into Android as a replacement for Google Assistant, I've been skeptical. And ever since I installed the new standalone Gemini Android app and allowed it to take over my phone's assistant function, that initial skepticism has only grown into a grumbling sense of us being ushered in the wrong direction.To read this articl
  
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• AI chips don’t need trillion-dollar investments: Nvidia CEO

  13-02-2024 09:48
  
  According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the ever-increasing speed and efficiency of processors mean that OpenAI’s Sam Altman won’t need $7 trillion for his AI chip initiative.“You can’t assume that you will buy more computers. You have to also assume that the computers are going to become faster and therefore the total amount that you need is not as much,” Huang said on stage at the World Governments’ Summit in Dubai.“If you just assume computers aren&rsq
  
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