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The Kakhovka dam sits on the Dnipro river. Vienna, Austria: The UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that it saw “no immediate nuclear safety risk” but was exploring options to get water to keep cooling Europe’s biggest atomic plant after a dam in southern Ukraine was damaged. Moscow and Kyiv have blamed each other for the damage at the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam and offered conflicting versions on the safety situation at the Russian-occupied plant, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) away. The Kakhovka dam sits on the Dnipro river, which feeds a reservoir providing cooling water for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power…

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More A couple of weeks ago I attended a dinner hosted by Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI, in advance of an NYC meetup celebrating open-source AI. As about eight of us chatted over wine and apps, I asked Mostaque for his thoughts on the March open letter calling for a six-month “pause” on large-scale AI development beyond OpenAI’s GPT-4, which he had signed along with Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and Yoshua Bengio. He smiled and…

It was time to download Google Chrome on a new Windows 11 computer. I typed “Chrome” into the Microsoft Edge search bar. I was greeted with a full-screen Microsoft Bing AI chatbot window, which promptly told me it was searching for… Bing features. Search query: “Chrome.” Search result: “news articles about Bing features.”Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge I picked my jaw up off the floor and tried again. Same result every time. Same exact text, too. This is clearly not Microsoft’s GPT-4 powered chatbot at work — it’s a completely canned interaction. Here’s how much of my screen…

The median trading volume across the top three decentralized exchanges (DEX) jumped 444% in the past 48 hours as crypto investors reeled from the United States securities regulator’s recent legal actions against cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance. According to aggregated data from CoinGecko, total daily trading volumes on Uniswap V3 (Ethereum), Uniswap V3 (Arbitrum) and Pancakeswap V3 (BSC) — which account for 53% of the total DEX trading volume in the last 24 hours — increased by more than $792 million between June 5 and June 7. Trading volume on Uniswap V3 (Ethereum) in the last 7 days. Source: CoinGecko.…

Axis Bank shares slide 2.4% post Q4 results; what should investors do?Analysts raise Axis Bank’s earnings forecast; to track deposit growth aheadGermany enters recession: What went wrong with Europe’s largest economy?Axis Bank-Citi deal: Synergies seen FY25 onwards on deposit, AUM attritionUnion Budget 2023: Centre bets big on Artificial Intelligence, IoTGoogle rolling out AI powered smart compose feature in Chat on webApple’s pricey new Vision Pro headset is not something to be dismissedWWDC23: What’s new coming with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, other Apple platformsApple launches 15-inch MacBook Air, claims world’s thinnest 15-inch laptopHit by hackers, high-profile YouTube channels lose entire content…

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) may not remove its finger from the repo rate pause button it had hit in April 2023, said experts there by ruling out the possibility of a rate reduction. “It is unlikely that the RBI will precede the Fed (US Federal Reserve) in reversing its course of rate hikes. However, MPC may soften its tone, on net amid (1) improving domestic inflation outlook (and a possible downward revision in its forecast), (2) improving external sector dynamics and (3) ongoing monetary-policy lags of past hikes,” Madhavi Arora, Lead Economist, Emkay Global…

Such concerns have also been shared by countless experts in the field Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are on track to become powerful enough to ”kill many humans” within just two years, an adviser to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned, Independent reported. Notably, Matt Clifford is currently leading the prime minister on the government’s Foundation Model Taskforce which focuses on investigating AI language models such as ChatGPT and Google Bard. He is also chairman of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria). Mr. Clifford, during a TalkTV interview, said that AI has the potential to create cyber and biological weapons that could…

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. I’ve had some deep conversations with Hendrik Lesser, founder of Lesser Evil, about his project Death From Above, an arcade-like game about the ongoing war in Ukraine. And now I’ve had a chance to play the game via Steam Early Access, and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it’s a brave game that takes on the geopolitical horror of our time, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the game, you play a Ukrainian soldier who is trapped…

Despite some hints toward a possible Apple smart display with its new StandBy feature for iPhones, Apple’s WWDC was underwhelming for the smart home. But Apple did announce one noteworthy addition, Siri will soon handle “multiple commands” in succession without you having to say its name again. This might seem like a small update, but for anyone who uses voice control in the smart home, saying, “Siri, turn off the dining room lights and lock the front door” will be a huge improvement. However, it’s also another example of how Apple is still playing catch-up in the smart home. I…

Google Cloud recently launched a suite of free online educational courses designed to teach the fundamentals of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, as well as provide an introduction to the Generative AI Studio development environment. Learn more about #generativeAI at no cost! This Google Cloud Skills Boost learning path will teach you the foundational knowledge to understand Generative AI and Google Cloud’s approach to this transformative technology → https://t.co/uLeaKNpq67 pic.twitter.com/nRW1kcMZCR— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) June 4, 2023 Generative AI systems have become a global industry since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT system in November 2022. In the time since, Microsoft, Google, Amazon,…