The long-anticipated personalized Siri allegedly coming with iOS 18.4 has now been delayed to 2026. To Daring Fireball, Apple’s spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy said the more personalized Siri experience powered by Apple Intelligence will take longer to be released.Here’s what she said: “Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and…
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Microsoft might release a free tier Office version with ads in the future. According to Beebom (via The Verge), the company started testing this possibility for Windows PCs. At this moment, the Redmond firm isn’t publicly promoting this bundle, even though it acknowledged the test after the media started talking about the possibility of an…
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Microsoft announced that its Copilot’s Think Deeper and Voice features are now available for free, with unlimited access for all users. Powered by OpenAI’s o1 model, you can talk with Copilot using Voice and use Think Deeper’s reasoning models to help with more complex tasks.This announcement comes as OpenAI expands its Operator capabilities to more…
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After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning model in January, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly looking to maintain the momentum by rushing its new R2 model to market as quickly as possible, Reuters reports.DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the…
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Microsoft has published the culmination of 20 years of research into subatomic particles, known as Majorana fermions, which it aims to use to build a million-qubit quantum computer. The research has involved developing topological qubits, which Microsoft research anticipated would offer more stable qubits, requiring less error correction. A research paper on the property of…
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The UK government’s decision to designate datacentres as critical national infrastructure (CNI) in September 2024 signalled its ambition to build a digital economy that is secure and globally competitive. But behind the headlines about protecting against cyber crime and IT blackouts lies a more complicated reality – a sector grappling with policy uncertainty, reliance on…
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Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left some enterprises facing higher costs, with some considering a move to alternative virtualisation environments. For those considering that, the challenge is to ensure any…
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It’s only Tuesday but OpenAI has had a great week so far, seemingly making forgotten all the talk about DeepSeek. That’s the viral AI from China that challenged the best ChatGPT model last week, tanking the US stock market in the process.Since Friday, OpenAI has made several announcements. First, ChatGPT o3-mini and o3-mini-high were released…
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Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…
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Less than a year ago, Microsoft’s VASA-1 blew my mind. The company showed how it could animate any photo and turn it into a video featuring the person in the image. This wasn’t the only impressive part, as the subject of the image would also be able to speak in the video.VASA-1 surpassed anything we’d…
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