Toss a coin to the Witcher

Google announced in a blog post that its chatbot is now available in over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, and Spanish and is launching in Brazil and “across Europe.”

Fast start might not continue

Meta's push to give Threads a fast start might might cause a few problems in the future.

5G phone by the year's end 

China's Huawei is plotting a return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of this year, signalling a comeback after a US ban on equipment sales decimated its consumer electronics business.

Democrats call for an investigation 

Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, are calling for an investigation into popular online tax filing companies, accusing them of sharing sensitive taxpayer data with Meta and Google without user consent. 

New AI

Sinequa has announced it will be using NVIDIA DGX H100 systems to develop new enterprise-grade AI capabilities.

More than half are using it in some way

A Gartner, survey of 105 HR leaders revealed that just five per cent of HR leaders report their function has already implemented generative AI, while another nine per cent reported they are currently conducting generative AI pilots.

Will encourage partners to make them instead

Intel has decided to stop making its Next Unit of Computing (NUC), but the company will encourage partners to keep making the small form-factor (SFF) PCs.

No grip on reality 

Mark Lucovsky, the former head of operating systems on Google's augmented reality team, has left the company.

Class action 

Search engine outfit Google has been hit with a class action claiming that it scraped and misused data to train its AI systems.

Trying to evade EU rules 

Mega-online retailer Amazon claims that it does not need to comply with Europe's Digital Services Act because it is too small to meet the definition of a Very Large Online Platform under EU law.