Tag: Nvidia
Nvidia shares plunge nearly 10%, Huawei tri-fold smartphone image leaked
UK shares dropped on Wednesday morning following falls in Asian and US markets as concerns grow about the world's largest economy. Data showed US manufacturing activity remains subdued, with investors now focussed now on US jobs figures due on Friday. American chip giant Nvidia was hit particularly hard, slumping by almost 10% as optimism about…
Fox Corporation launches Netflix rival, Scientists attach ‘living skin’ to robots
Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corporation is entering the UK's highly competitive free, ad-supported video streaming market. Tubi will compete with the likes of Netflix, Disney+, ITVX and Channel 4's streaming platform as well as the BBC iPlayer. The platform has been quickly gaining market share in the US where, according to Fox, it has almost 80…
Vauxhall owner says car plants could close, Record labels sue AI start-ups
The owner of the Vauxhall, Peugeot and Citroën brands has warned its car plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton could close unless market demand for electric vehicles and “stupid” regulatory conditions change. The UK managing director of Stellantis said the company did not want to shut operations in the UK but it would make a decision in…
Self-driving cars safe except during low light, Nvidia becomes world’s most valuable company
Self-driving cars are safer than those driven by humans, except when it is dusk, dawn, or the vehicle is turning, according to a new study. Autonomous vehicles are involved in fewer accidents than cars driven by humans, researchers from the University of Central Florida have found. However, although the research generally showed self-driving cars to be safer,…
Plans to use social media posts to train AI criticised, Nvidia overtakes Apple
Plans to use peoples' public posts and images on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools belonging to parent company Meta have been attacked by digital rights groups. The social media giant recently has been informing UK and European users of the platforms that, under privacy policy changes, external taking effect 26 June, their information…
ShinyShiny snippets: AI poses similar risk to ‘nuclear war’, experts warn
Artificial intelligence poses a similar risk of human extinction as pandemics and nuclear war, experts have warned. The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT, the head of Google's AI lab, and CEO of Anthropic - another major AI firm, have all signed an open letter. It reads: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a…
ShinyShiny snippets: NASA sends Artemis rocket to moon
NASA's most powerful rocket ever has launched into space in the first step of a mission to return humans to the moon. The next-generation, multibillion-dollar Space Launch System lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with the Orion spacecraft in tow. It surged off the launch pad…
Tech Digest daily roundup: TikTok ditches 3 minute video limit
TikTok is to ditch its three minute limit on videos and will soon allow all users to upload clips up to 10 minutes long, the Chinese social network has confirmed. It brought in the existing limit in July 2021, upping it from 60 seconds, having initially expanded it from the original 15 seconds. The app…
