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Apple has released a free software update that will inject its first dose of artificial intelligence into its iPhone 16 line-up as the trendsetting company tries to catch up with technology’s latest craze

Ecommerce software firm Unicommerce Esolutions, which went public in August, saw its net profit increase by 21% to Rs 4.4 crore for the quarter ended September 2024. The company reported operating revenue of Rs 29 crore for the quarter, from Rs 26 crore a year ago. Its total income stood at Rs 30 crore. The company’s total expenses rose to Rs 24 crore in the September quarter from Rs 22 crore in the same period last year. A significant amount of the expenditure was attributed to employee benefits which amounted to Rs 16 crore and other expenses at Rs 6 crore.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's top tech services companies are riding the AI wave with chip giant Nvidia, betting on mutually beneficial partnerships like the ones they have with software giants SAP AG and Oracle Corp.

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Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”

Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near «human level robustness and accuracy.» But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments. Experts said that such fabrications are problematic because Whisper is being used in a slew of industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews, generate text in popular consumer technologies and create subtitles for videos.

Apple Inc. is planning a week of announcements related to the Mac computer lineup, marketing executive Greg Joswiak said in a social media post, signaling that highly anticipated models with the new M4 chip are on the way. «Mac your calendars!» he said on X, adding a winking emoji. «We have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning. Stay tuned...» Though Joswiak didn't specify what products Apple will unveil, Bloomberg News has reported that the rollout will include the first Macs with M4 processors.

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Also read | Nvidia’s partnership with Reliance, Tatas to boost India’s AI infrastructureHuang said that computer hardware technology today has reached its limit in terms of how many transistors can be crammed into a chip, and by extension how powerful processors can be.“We can no longer afford to do nothing in software and expect to improve computing experience," he said. “We started our company to improve software."Nvidia makes high-end graphics processing units (GPU) that coupled with the firm’s CUDA software handle multiple simpler tasks simultaneously rather than handling complex calculations that conventional processors do.

forthcoming MacBook Air will likely retain a design akin to the current models, which debuted in 2022, but will incorporate the advanced M4 chip. The new 13-inch and 15-inch variants, codenamed J713 and J715, are expected to enhance performance and improve the handling of artificial intelligence tasks.In an unusual move, Apple reportedly plans to update its entire range of Mac computers to the same chip generation, namely the M4.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ORLANDO, Fla.—Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang told thousands of business technology leaders that their companies must become artificial intelligence-powered organizations to prepare for what he calls a “new industrial revolution." Huang spoke onstage at market research and consulting firm Gartner’s IT Symposium/Xpo event in Orlando on Tuesday, making the case that chief executives and chief information officers simply need to get started with AI, and the rest will follow.

Anthropic, a startup backed by Alphabet and Amazon. com, released a pair of updated artificial intelligence models on Tuesday, along with a new capability to autonomously perform computer tasks and save users keystrokes. The new «computer use» feature can tell AI «where to move the mouse, where to click, what to type, in order to do quite complicated tasks,» Anthropic's chief science officer Jared Kaplan said in an interview. The capability is tailored to software developers and represents a move toward AI agents, programs that require little human intervention to carry out multi-step actions. Researchers have touted agents as a frontier for AI development beyond chatbots, which easily conjure prose or computer code though not actions.

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Meta shut down facial recognition software on Facebook amid a groundswell of privacy and regulator pushback, the social media giant said on Tuesday it is testing the service again as part of a crackdown on "celeb bait" scams. Meta said it will enroll about 50,000 public figures in a trial which involves automatically comparing their Facebook profile photos with images used in suspected scam advertisements. If the images match and Meta believes the ad are scams, it will block them. The celebrities will be notified of their enrollment and can opt out if they do not want to participate, the company said.

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