Artificial Intelligence

By Charles Ellinas Earlier in July, the EU published its ‘European Innovation Performance Scoreboard 2024’ and in June the IMF published its new ‘AI Preparedness Index Dashboard’. Both put Cyprus in ...

Outsized positions in artificial intelligence darling Nvidia (NVDA.O) have boosted portfolio managers’ returns this year but the bets stand to magnify risk if the chipmaker’s red-hot shares see ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) has ditched the board observer seat at OpenAI that has drawn regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, saying it was not necessary after the AI ...

The enterprise applications market experienced significant revenue growth in 2023 as artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), began to transform the employee and customer experience of business software. According to ...

A US stock rally supercharged by excitement over artificial intelligence is drawing comparisons with the dotcom bubble two decades ago, raising the question of whether prices have again been inflated ...

UBS is seeing a shift in the way clients are interacting with their bankers powered by artificial intelligence, according to the head of the Swiss bank’s domestic business Sabine ...

The Swiss National Bank is open to expanding its pilot project with wholesale central bank digital currencies, governing board member Antoine Martin said on Wednesday. “We would like to see ...

OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector’s first trade group, they said this week. The ...

A union representing Hollywood film and television crew said on Tuesday it has reached a tentative three-year deal with major studios that includes agreed-on pay hikes and guardrails against the ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) short sellers have raked in nearly $5 billion in paper profits from the AI chip designer’s sharp selloff over just three sessions earlier this week, according to ...

Workers are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and prioritising skills growth amidst rising workloads and an accelerating pace of change, according to the results of a survey shared by consulting ...

Zing Coach, the Palta-backed health tech startup reducing growing rates of physical inactivity with its AI-powered fitness app, has today announced that it has raised a Series A funding round ...

Home to animated heroes from Tintin to the Smurfs, Brussels is proud to display its cartoon heritage in mammoth murals that tower over the city’s stately streets. But all ...

The global commercial shipping industry could cut down its carbon emissions by 47 million tonnes per year by deploying artificial intelligence for sea navigation, a study by autonomous shipping startup Orca ...

Snapchat owner Snap has launched its latest iteration of generative AI technology that will allow users to see more realistic special effects when using phone cameras to film themselves, as ...

The Cyprus Mail’s SOUZANA PSARA recently sat down with tech industry veteran Ruslan Synytsky for an in-depth interview about the visionary beginnings of Ravatar, an innovative venture into the ...

Last week, CEO Tim Cook’s Apple (AAPL.O) announced a splashy deal with OpenAI to include its powerful artificial intelligence model as a part of its voice assistant, Siri. ...

A new set of laws governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union will force companies to be more transparent about the data used to train their ...

A group of current and former employees at artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google DeepMind this week raised concerns about risks ...

Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Salesforce Ventures (CRM.N), as well as new investors including Cisco (CSCO....

A new AI-powered assistant called Placy has been launched in Cyprus, aiming to transform the real estate sector, according to an announcement released on Thursday. The announcement noted that this ...

The world’s leading internet firms are engaging extensively with regulators in the European Union to ensure their artificial-intelligence products do not fall foul of the bloc’s strict data ...

OpenAI has formed a Safety and Security Committee which will be led by CEO Sam Altman as it begins training its next artificial intelligence model, the AI startup said this ...

Accounting giant PwC will become the largest customer and first reseller of OpenAI’s enterprise product as part of a new deal, according to a report by the Wall Street ...