ETH Treasury Race Heats Up: BitMine Still Ahead Despite SharpLink's Latest Ether Purchase

Ether (ETH) is holding steady above $3,800, according to CoinDesk Data, as the battle for dominance among corporate ETH treasuries intensifies. On Tuesday, SharpLink Gaming (SBET) announced it had purchased an additional 77,210 ETH last week, worth nearly $290 million at an average price of $3,756. The move raises SharpLink’s total ether holdings to 438,190 … Read more

Bard, Bing and Baidu: How Big Tech’s AI Race Will Transform Search – and All of Computing

Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice. After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally … Read more

Microsoft, Google Beat First-Quarter Market Expectations as AI Race Heats Up

Google parent company Alphabet beat market expectations in the first quarter of 2023 with a net profit of $15 billion (roughly Rs. 1,23,000 crore), the company said on Tuesday, in a sign that the search engine behemoth is regaining its footing. The tech titan has found itself under pressure due to a general slowdown in … Read more

Bitcoin Sees Strong Recovery as Pro-Crypto Donald Trump’s Favourability Soars in US Presidential Race

Bitcoin saw a strong recovery on Monday, after the currency hit a slump in market momentum last week owing to macro-economic conditions that imposed selling pressure on investors. At present, Bitcoin is trading at $62,796 (roughly Rs. 52.4 lakh) after seeing a price rise of 4.82 percent over the last 24 hours. The asset is … Read more

ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Sued for Violation of Privacy Laws in ‘AI Arms Race’

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit seeking class action status. OpenAI has violated privacy laws by secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet, tapping “books, articles, websites and posts — … Read more

‘It Could Evolve Into Jarvis’: Race Towards ‘Autonomous’ AI Agents and Copilots Grips Silicon Valley

Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the latest version of the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals. Experimental systems that run on GPT-4 or similar models are attracting billions of dollars of … Read more

Qualcomm Has Sustainable Advantage of Arm Over x86 in the AI PC Race, Says Mike Roberts

Qualcomm held its Snapdragon India event last month, where it showcased its Snapdragon X series chipsets, which power the Copilot+ PCs across various manufacturers. The company also unveiled the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 mobile platform aimed at providing 5G connectivity in budget smartphones. Both of these announcements were interesting as they highlighted the chipmaker’s ambition … Read more

Samsung’s Chip Division Underwhelms in Costly AI Memory Race

Samsung Electronics Co.’s pivotal chip division reported a smaller-than-expected profit as the company fights to close the gap on archrival SK Hynix Inc. in the artificial intelligence arena.  Samsung is ratcheting up its research and operating costs, with executives saying the spending on memory would stay at a similarly elevated level as last year. Total … Read more

The Race to AI-Infused Hardware: Apple, Google, and Beyond

The landscape of consumer electronics is evolving at a breathtaking pace, driven by the relentless pursuit of AI-infused hardware by tech giants like Apple, Google, and a host of other innovators. This shift marks a pivotal moment in technology, where artificial intelligence is no longer a peripheral feature but is becoming the beating heart of … Read more