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Around 41 percent of executives in leading economies say they will employ fewer people within five years due to AI

AI A 'Game Changer' But Company Execs Not Ready: Survey

Adecco, the world's biggest temporary staffing agency, and Oxford Economics conducted a survey to see how companies are preparing for a technology that is growing fast but also raising concerns about what it means for jobs.
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Amazon, Apple, Google parent Alphabet, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft have to comply with the new law

EU Probes Apple, Google, Meta Under New Digital Law

The European Commission, the EU's antitrust regulator, announced that it "suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA" -- the bloc's Digital Markets Act.
The UN General Assembly chamber is seen in February 2023

UN General Assembly To Address AI's Potential Risks, Rewards

The UN General Assembly will turn its attention to artificial intelligence on Thursday, weighing a resolution that lays out the potentially transformational technology's pros and cons while calling for the establishment of international standards.
ChatGPT users will be able to get summaries of French and Spanish language news and links to articles under the terms of an announced partnership between its creator, OpenAI, and publishers Le Monde and Prisa Media

OpenAI Partners With Le Monde And Prisa Media

OpenAI will be able to use content from Le Monde and Prisa Media publications including El Pais, Cinco Dias, and El Huffpost to train the models powering its artificial intelligence, the San Francisco-based company said in an online post.
The launch of ChatGPT and other American models set off a rush by European companies to make up for their delay

French Startup Mistral AI Vows To Maintain Open Source

The announcement comes as US billionaire Elon Musk has sued ChatGPT creator OpenAI -- which also has ties to Microsoft -- accusing the firm of breaking its original non-profit mission to make AI research available to all.
AI tools have often been criticised for reflecting racial and sexist stereotypes

AI Tools Generate Sexist Content, Warns UN

The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts of data largely pulled from the internet, which enables their tools to write in the style of Oscar Wilde or create Salvador Dali-inspired images.
Japan changed traffic laws last year to allow robot deliveries

Uber Eats Starts Robot Deliveries In Tokyo

Starting Wednesday, robot deliveries will be offered in a small area of the city by the US-based food app, which hopes to eventually roll out the service more widely in Japan.
Apple has abandoned a decade-long project to develop an electric car, according to US media

Apple Abandons Electric Car Plans: Media

The iPhone maker had dedicated nearly 2,000 employees to its secretive car development program, Bloomberg reported, but faced an increasingly competitive electric vehicle (EV) sector.
Honor CEO George Zhao told the Mobile World Congress that AI 'can make fantastic things happen'

Smartphone Makers Bet On AI To Boost Sales

The trend was on display at the telecom industry's biggest annual show, the four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) which got underway Monday in Barcelona, where handset makers focused on the unique AI-powered features of their new flagship devices.

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