Newscasts - AI Weekly: Google's Pixel power up

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14/08/2024 14:37

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Description: From Google's AI power-up, to Elon Musk's EU data dispute, we
round up the week's big stories from the AI revolution. Francesca Lynagh
reports.
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Video Transcript:

From Google's AI power-up, to Elon Musk's EU data dispute, this is AI Weekly.
Google unveiled new Pixel smartphones with upgraded AI technology. It includes
features that allows users to search for information stored in screenshots.
Android users can also pull up Google chatbot Gemini as an overlay on top of
another app to answer questions or generate content. Rick Osterloh is Google's
senior vice president of devices and services.

The new Gemini assistant can go beyond understanding your words to
understanding your intent, so you can communicate more naturally. It can
synthesize large amounts of information in seconds and tackle complex tasks.

China's Huawei is close to unveiling an AI chip to compete with rival NVIDIA,
despite facing US sanctions. That's according to a report in the Wall Street
Journal. It said Huawei's latest processor, the Ascend 910C, has been tested
by Chinese internet and telecom companies in recent weeks. Elon Musk’s
social media platform X has agreed not to train its AI systems, for now at
least, using personal data collected from EU users before they had the option
to withdraw their consent. A hearing in Ireland found X had only given its
users the opportunity to opt out several weeks after the start of data
collection. X said it would continue to work with EU regulators about AI
issues. And Apple supplier Foxconn surpassed projections with a 6% rise in
quarterly net profit driven by a boom in demand for AI servers. The company
said it expects this demand to continue boosting growth into the fourth
quarter