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Investors pay close attention to tech company’s foray into AI after Apple Intelligence’s glitches and inaccuraciesApple slightly beat analysts’ expectations in its first-quarter earnings for fiscal year 2025 on Thursday. The iPhone-maker’s revenue rose by 4%, coming in at $124.30bn, barely above estimates of $124.12bn. Earnings per share were $2.40, just ahead of analysts’ expectations of $2.35.Shares rose more than 8% in extended trading after CEO Tim Cook indicate

The Human Authored online portal allows members to register their book and use a specially designed logo on covers and promotional materialsThe US body representing writers, the Authors Guild, has launched an online portal for members to confirm that their work “emanated from the human intellect” and not from artificial intelligence.The initiative, called Human Authored, will allow authors to log on to the portal and register their book. They will then be able to use a specially desi

DeepSeek’s home | Bare bones | Liquid lift-off | Labour faithfuls? | School sports | Questionable teachingRachel Reeves is behind the tech curve in proposing to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” (Report, 28 January). She should surely be considering an equivalent of Hangzhou, home of DeepSeek, the company that knocked $1tn off the value of US tech stocks in a day.
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Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific regional accents. And with just a few seconds of audio, AI can now clone someone’s specific voice. This technology will replace humans in many areas. Automat

Reported move would make Japanese group largest financial backer of US startup behind ChatGPTBusiness live – latest updatesThe Japanese investment group SoftBank is reportedly in talks to invest up to $25bn (£20bn) in OpenAI in a deal that would make it the biggest financial backer of the startup behind ChatGPT.The lender is considering putting a sum of between $15bn and $25bn into the San Francisco-based company, according to the Financial Times. Continue reading...

Whatever the truth about DeepSeek, China’s tech sector is light years ahead on strategy and investmentFor once, Donald Trump was not guilty of hyperbole. The arrival of a budget Chinese chatbot called DeepSeek to rival ChatGPT really is a wake-up call. It is a wake-up call to the US tech giants. It is a wake-up call to Wall Street. It is a wake-up call to any developed nation keen to enter the AI race.All of that is true even if it turns out that DeepSeek is not all it is cracked up to be.