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Nvidia prepares to resume AI chip sales in China after new US approvals, reopening a multibillion-dollar market despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
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Amazon's next-generation smart assistant has entered its Early Access program in the UK, marking Alexa 's European debut following rollouts in the US, Canada and Mexico. Starting March 19, invitations to start using the smarter, more conversational Alexa will be sent out to "hundreds of thousands" of willing participants, Amazon said in a press release, adding that Alexa is the most popular voice assistant in the UK.
As well as its more natural communication, agentic capabilities, contextual awareness and ability to remember previous conversations across devices, Amazon that users across the pond are getting an "authentically British" AI-powered assistant. It understands slang terms like "cuppa" and might even accuse you of taking the mick in the middle of a conversation. Can we rule out some cringe-inducing cockney impersonations? Absolutely not. It also distinguishes between, for example, how people in the UK say the date — "the 1st of April" — versus how it's said in the US.
Amazon said that engineers, linguists and speech scientists have worked together at the company's Cambridge-based Tech Hub to ensure the voice assistant understands British users, with naturally flowing conversations being a crucial part of the Alexa experience.
On the agentic side of things, the current lineup of UK partners will include OpenTable and, soon, JustEat, alongside existing partnerships with services like Spotify, Philips and Apple Music. Amazon also sources news from the likes of The Guardian
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 Vivaldi this week released version 7.9 of its desktop browser, which includes a new UI Auto-hide feature that clears the entire browser interface from view while you read, watch, or work.
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NEW RESOURCES The Conversation: Who were the ‘peasants' of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt? New database has answers. "The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was one of the largest and most dramatic popular uprisings […]
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just threw his considerable weight behind the fast-growing OpenClaw AI agent platform, declaring it a seismic shift in how humans will interact with artificial intelligence going forward. Speaking with CNBC's Jim Cramer on "Mad Money" from the sidelines of Nvidia's GTC conference in California, Huang declared about OpenClaw: "It is now […]
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