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AI Will Kill the Smartphone—and Maybe the Screen Entirely
You wake up and instead of immediately checking your phone, you activate various wearables embedded within your body and begin interacting with inanimate objects through a series of conversations. You perform fluid, Minority Report–style gestures in the air, blinking frequently. Devices power on, tasks get accomplished, and your day starts without the need for a…
Read MoreWhatsApp updates Business API to ban general-purpose chatbots
Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced a significant update to its Business API policy, prohibiting the use of general-purpose chatbots on its platform starting from January 15, 2026. This revision will affect AI assistants developed by firms including OpenAI, Perplexity, Luzia, and Poke, restricting their operation through WhatsApp’s Business Solution if artificial intelligence or machine learning technologies,…
Read MoreWildly inaccurate election forecasts highlight Big Data challenges
For several weeks I was receiving daily messages on my phone from the New York Times’ Upshot column, which confidently predicted Trumps…
Read MoreThis supercomputer puts a petaflop of computing power in a single cabinet
Cray has shown off its fastest supercomputer yet, which puts a petaflop of computing power in a single cabinet. The company also says it…
Read MoreArchitects of a digital future
The elite annual gathering of Fujitsu Distinguished Engineers explored the technological, organizational — and metaphysical — challenges…
Read MoreThe IoT security doomsday is lurking, but we cannot talk about it properly
As the world rushes headlong into taking all manner of devices and systems online, there are few opportunities to sit back and consider…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s SQL Server Next: What’s under the covers
To me, the biggest surprise announcement coming out of Microsoft’s Connect() 2016 conference last week wasn’t that Microsoft was joining…
Read MoreU.S. sets plan to build two exascale supercomputers
he U.S believes it will be ready to seek vendor proposals to build two exascale supercomputers — costing roughly $200 million to $300…
Read MoreGoogle, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she…
Read MoreGoogle’s Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results
Ask the Google search app “What is the fastest bird on Earth?,” and it will tell you. “Peregrine falcon,” the phone says. “According to…
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