SYDNEY, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Microsoft (MSFT.O) said it will spend A$5 billion ($3.2 billion) expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing abilities in Australia over two years as part of a wide-ranging effort that includes skills training and cyber security. The U.S. tech giant said it would raise its computing capacity in Australia…

Apple is on track to spend $1 billion per year on developing its generative artificial intelligence products, Bloomberg reported. Apple is looking to use AI to improve Siri, Messages and Apple Music. The spending comes as the company plays catch-up to some competitors who have already debuted new AI products and features, such as Google,…

Open this photo in gallery: Nada Haye/The Globe and Mail Anyone who has visited a Canadian supermarket lately—which is to say, most of us—may have been distracted (albeit briefly) from their fury over price gouging to take note of a small but telling shift in the deployment of employees in chains like Loblaws or Metro.…

Government officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithms to help decide everything from who gets benefits to who should have their marriage licence approved, according to a Guardian investigation. The findings shed light on the haphazard and often uncontrolled way that cutting-edge technology is being used across Whitehall. Civil servants in at least…

From left, Joanna Shipp, chair of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, moderates a panel with Eduardo Schwerter, a Chilean who is president of the Pan-American Dairy Federation; Steen Nørgaard Madsen, chair of the Danish Dairy Board; Margaret Munene, managing director, Palmhouse Dairies Ltd., Kenya; and Simon Vander Woude, Chair, California Dairies, Inc. Photo…

Adult film star Riley Reid isn’t afraid of artificial intelligence — so instead of allowing others to leverage her likeness without her consent, she’s getting in on the ground floor. As recently launched independent media company 404 Media reports, Reid has cofounded a new company called Clona.ai that allows personalities like herself to create AI chatbot…

Artificial intelligence in the classroom is not new. Educators have used the technology to grade homework, assist with translations and develop interactive games to improve young children’s academic and social skills. But the arrival of new, more accessible and sophisticated AI tools, such as ChatGPT, has raised public awareness — as well as concern —…

Listen to article (2 minutes) Govind Gnanakumar was in diapers when Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard. Like the Meta founder, he won’t wait for a university diploma to start his business.  The 19-year-old dropped out of the Georgia Institute of Technology in May to focus full time on his artificial-intelligence startup, Automorphic. He is…

Video credit: Jitao Zhou/Rikkyo University CNN  —  When you read “artificial intelligence,” you might think of new innovations such as Chat GPT, but AI has been used in video games since the 1950s. From Pacman’s trademark ghosts to autonomous decision-making in “The Sims,” AI is essential for things like creating adaptive characters and storylines. Now,…

Almost as soon as ChatGPT was released to the public, doctors began focusing on how they could harness artificial intelligence to improve patient care. Yet even as AI is providing doctors with increasingly sophisticated data, the information available to patients has stagnated. The stark reality is that there’s far more information available today to guide…