India’s JioCinema broke the world record for most simultaneous views of a live-streamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing landmark of Disney’s Hotstar as Asian tycoon Mukesh Ambani spares no expense in expanding his digital empire. The Indian streaming app, whose partner includes James Murdoch’s Bodhi Tree-backed Viacom18, surpassed the record on Monday night, drawing … Read more
JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service that rivals Netflix and Disney’s Hotstar in India, will soon be home to “The Office” and other NBCUniversal titles. The streaming service Viacom18 said Monday it has signed a “multi-year” partnership with NBCUniversal to bring “thousands of hours” of NBCU movies and TV shows to India. The partnership … Read more
Poor CEO Rene Haas Just ahead of CEO Rene Haas’ keynote address at Computex in Taipei today, Arm launched two new products designed to boost smartphone performance. The first is the Arm Cortex-X4, the fourth generation Cortex-X core. Arm said the Cortex-X4 is the fastest CPU he’s made to date and will deliver 15% more … Read more
Jensen Huang will to bring generative AI to every data center, Nvidia’s co-founder and CEO said today at Computex in Taipei. During the speech, Huang’s first public speech in nearly four years, he said, he made a slew of announcements, including chip release dates, the DGX GH200 supercomputer and partnerships with major companies. Here’s all … Read more
Keeping up in an industry that evolves as fast as AI is quite a task. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the past week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments that we’ve not covered alone. This week, AI industry movers … Read more
This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personality in a world where it’s getting harder every day to tell a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding. Led by 10-year-old Blockchain Capital, whose bets include Coinbase, Kraken and OpenSea, the investment brings Worldcoin’s funding to at … Read more
Skyflow, a data privacy startup, announced Friday that it has expanded the number of markets where it offers data residency support for companies that need to keep certain information within certain boundaries. In today’s market, you probably won’t be able to keep EU customer data in, say, South America and vice versa, so companies need … Read more
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has been traveling across Europe for the past few days meeting with government leaders and start-up communities to discuss AI regulation, ChatGPT and more. In his final appearance on stage at Station F in Paris, Altman answered questions from local entrepreneurs and shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence. A few … Read more
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has issued significant assurances to UK antitrust regulators to address concerns about how it uses advertising data to benefit its own products. The news comes the same week Meta revealed it sold GIF platform Giphy for $53 million, three years after buying it for $400 million, following a final divestment order … Read more
OpenAI has expanded the availability of its ChatGPT app to iOS users in India and 32 other countries – just a week after its US launch. The list of new countries includes Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Estonia, Ghana, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mauritania, Mauritius … Read more