Eye on AI: Tech giants form industry group, Apple-OpenAI deal and other top developments

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Tech giants form industry group for AI networking

A new industry group, that includes the likes of Google, Microsoft and Intel, has been formed to help develop components that link together AI accelerator chips in data centres. The group is known as the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group. The group also includes AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco and Broadcom. The move is seen as the latest effort to tackle the market dominance of chip-making giant Nvidia, which was absent from the group. “An industry specification becomes critical to standardise the interface for AI and machine learning, HPC (high-performance computing), and cloud applications for the next generation of AI data centres and implementations,” the companies said in a statement.

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Apple, OpenAI sign billion-dollar deal

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Smartphone major Apple reportedly inked a billion-dollar strategic partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to incorporate its technology into Apple’s iOS 18 operating system for iPhones. The aim is to make Apple’s digital assistant Siri more intelligent and human-like in its responses. This is expected to be announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in the second week of June. The deal has