Artificial intelligence (AI) was struggling on Wednesday to forecast the outcome of the notoriously secretive and unpredictable process by which Catholic cardinals elect a new pope. The April 21 death of Pope Francis triggered a period of mourning in the Catholic Church, but also kick-started the race for his successor, with everyone from Vatican insiders […]
Chinese autonomous-driving firm Pony.ai said it plans to expand its robotaxi services globally, taking advantage of the lower cost of production enabled by the nation’s leadership in the automotive industry. James Peng, chairman and CEO of Pony.ai, said the company’s robotaxis were 20 to 30 per cent cheaper than those from US rival Alphabet’s self-driving
Tesla’s production of Optimus, a robot that promises to take over household chores, has been disrupted by China’s curbs on rare earth exports, introduced by Beijing earlier this month in an escalating trade war with Washington. Speaking on the company’s earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk said production was impacted by the “magnet issue”.
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Chinese voice-recognition firm iFlytek said that training its large language models (LLM) entirely with Huawei Technologies’ computing solutions has increased its growth potential amid the intensifying US-China tech war, after the Trump administration moved to restrict the export of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. iFlytek on Monday boasted that its Xinghuo X1
