Topic: technology adoption
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‘Squid Game’ Creator Invests in AI Firm TwelveLabs to Speed Up Production (EXCLUSIVE)
Firstman Studio, founded by "Squid Game" creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, has invested $3 million in AI firm TwelveLabs to enhance production workflows through advanced video indexing and metadata tools. TwelveLabs' technology analyzes video, audio, and contextual elements to make archived footage search...
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G42 Drives UAE's AI Dominance with Sector-Wide Breakthroughs
The UAE is advancing as a global AI leader, with G42 Group driving progress in digital sovereignty, data security, and AI integration across key economic sectors during the first half of 2025. In cybersecurity, CBX launched AI-powered threat detection and sovereign data services to enhance nation...
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Indonesia, UAE Partner on Digital Governance & Human Capital
Indonesia and the UAE have established a landmark partnership focused on digital governance and human capital development, including a plan to train 10 million Indonesian coders over three years. The collaboration includes five strategic pillars such as fostering innovation, improving government ...
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Microsoft's AI Lets You Control Your PC With Your Voice
Microsoft is embedding AI deeply into Windows 11, transforming PCs into intelligent companions that respond to voice commands and aim to make AI central to the user experience. The company is introducing features like "Hey, Copilot!" for voice control and Copilot Vision for contextual screen anal...
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A Glimpse Into the Future of AI
Experts are deeply divided on AI's future impact, with some predicting a rapid, revolutionary upheaval akin to the Industrial Revolution, while others foresee a slower, more gradual integration into society. Skeptics emphasize that real-world adoption depends on human factors like regulation and ...
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AI in 2030: A Vision of Our Future World
By 2030, AI is predicted to become an invisible, embedded layer in existing systems, enhancing productivity and personalization without appearing overtly revolutionary. Experts are divided on AI's impact, with some forecasting rapid, disruptive change akin to the Industrial Revolution, while othe...
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Unlocking the Battery Revolution's Hidden Challenge
The battery industry is facing a crisis, with eleven major businesses declaring bankruptcy in a year, erasing over $15 billion in investment and threatening the clean energy transition. The core issue is not faulty battery chemistry but the failure to integrate advanced technologies into commerci...
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Who Gets News From AI? New Pew Research Reveals the Divide
Most Americans do not use AI for daily news, with only 9% relying on chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini, highlighting a gap between AI's capabilities and public acceptance in journalism. Trust in AI-generated news is low, as half of users report encountering incorrect information and many struggle t...
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Windows Copilot AI Makes Your PC Feel Incompetent
Microsoft promotes Copilot AI as a transformative tool that enables natural voice interaction with devices, promising a future where computers understand and execute tasks seamlessly through advanced AI integration. In reality, Copilot's performance is marked by inaccuracies, slow responses, and ...
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Can't Afford a Vacation? This AI App Sells You Fake Ones
A new wave of AI applications generates fake vacation photos, allowing users, often middle to low-income individuals, to mentally escape and visualize a life of luxury they cannot afford as a form of therapy or goal manifestation. These tools, such as Endless Summer and various "AI manifestation"...
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NBA Star Russell Westbrook Co-Founds End-of-Life Planning Startup
Eazewell is an AI-powered platform co-founded by Donnell Beverly Jr., Russell Westbrook, and Kemba Walker to simplify end-of-life planning and reduce the administrative burden on grieving families. The platform offers 24/7 assistance with tasks like booking funeral homes and closing accounts, par...
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3 Forces That Defined Martech in 2025
Marketing technology investment remained stagnant in 2025, with companies hesitating on new purchases due to financial constraints or recent upgrades, while increasing exploratory research into new technologies. Artificial intelligence applications expanded beyond content generation to include an...
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Coles Boosts Retail with AI and OpenAI Partnership
Coles is the first major Australian supermarket to implement ChatGPT Enterprise at scale, aiming to enhance corporate team efficiency and personalize customer interactions through generative AI. The company is deploying the GPT-5 model internally for tasks like compliance and idea generation, wit...
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Boost Your Business with Free Marketing & Finance Tools
The City of Moreton Bay's Business Boost Tech Essentials Program provides 1,000 qualifying small businesses with six months of free marketing and financial management software from Constant Contact and Xero, along with training resources to enhance growth and efficiency. This initiative aims to h...
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Why We Should Let AI Start Over
Tech leaders acknowledge a potential AI bubble and urge caution regarding artificial general intelligence, reflecting a balance between immense promise and the risk of deflation. The AI field is currently dominated by hype-driven conferences and events rather than substantive technical discourse,...
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Post-Quantum Security: Why You Need It Now
Australia is at a critical technological juncture where quantum computing presents both opportunities and a fundamental risk to existing cryptographic systems, threatening the security of sensitive data. Quantum computers can break widely used encryption standards like RSA and ECC, potentially de...
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Tim Sweeney confronts Arc Raiders AI controversy
Eurogamer's critical review of Arc Raiders, focusing on its AI-generated voices, sparked a major online debate and a defense from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who sees AI combined with human creativity as transformative for gaming. Sweeney argued that views on AI are political and productivity-enh...
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1 Million Users Weekly Ask ChatGPT About Suicide
Over a million people weekly use ChatGPT to discuss suicidal thoughts, reflecting a significant shift towards AI as a primary source of support during personal crises. OpenAI reports that 0.15% of its 800 million weekly users show signs of suicidal intent, prompting the company to enhance its AI'...
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UAE's Digital Construction: The Secret to Its Skyline
Dubai's construction landscape showcases architectural ambition but relies on complex management of resources, finances, and teams to bring projects to life. Traditional, disjointed tools like spreadsheets and emails are failing as projects grow, leading to budget overruns, delays, and regulatory...
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Sora: Why You Should Join the Competition
Sora, a new AI-powered social video app from ChatGPT's creators, has generated massive demand with 627,000 iOS downloads in its first week, even before its Australian launch. The app creates highly realistic synthetic videos, blurring the line between fact and fiction and raising significant conc...
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US Lags Behind in Compact Phone Battery Innovation
Silicon-carbon batteries are revolutionizing smartphone power by enabling slimmer designs or longer battery life, but U.S. consumers are missing out as major brands like Apple, Samsung, and Google have not yet adopted this technology. These batteries use silicon in the anode to achieve higher ene...
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Atlantans Are Returning to Landlines: Here's Why
Emily Varon chose a landline phone with VoIP service for her children to blend modern technology with a classic, distraction-free communication tool, which her kids found unfamiliar. Landlines are gaining popularity among Atlanta families for their simplicity, reliability during emergencies, and ...
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Face ID for Mac: Still No Sign After Years of Rumors
Face ID for Mac remains years away from implementation, with no concrete timeline despite ongoing speculation from reliable sources like Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple's plans to transition from Touch ID to Face ID have been repeatedly delayed, with past predictions failing to materialize and cur...
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Australia's First AI Phone Agent for Orders Launches
Otto is an AI telephone agent for Australian hospitality businesses that automatically handles customer orders and bookings, requiring no app downloads and operating 24/7 to capture missed revenue opportunities. It addresses industry challenges like high call volumes and staff shortages by ensuri...
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Sierra CEO: Why the AI Boom Echoes the Dotcom Era
The current AI investment surge resembles the dot-com boom, with potential for both failures and transformative successes like Amazon or Google. Sierra, led by Bret Taylor, uses outcome-based pricing for AI customer service agents, focusing on voice interactions for natural, effective support. Ta...
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Unlock Your Phone's Potential: The Ultimate Guide to eSIMs
eSIMs are embedded digital alternatives to physical SIM cards, securely storing subscriber information in a device's internal memory instead of on a removable chip. They offer greater convenience by allowing users to switch carriers or plans through a simple software update, eliminating the need ...
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China's DeepSeek Enters AI Agent Race Against OpenAI and Microsoft
DeepSeek plans to launch an advanced AI agent called R2 by late 2025, positioning it as a major competitor to firms like OpenAI and Microsoft in the global AI landscape. The R2 model builds on the success of R1, which matched or exceeded U.S. competitors' performance at a lower cost, and focuses ...
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Seize the Climate Tech Investment Opportunity Now
The global emissions outlook has improved dramatically over the past decade, with current worst-case projections now matching what was once considered the best-case scenario, indicating stronger momentum for climate solutions than previously acknowledged. This positive shift is largely driven by ...
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AI's Impact on IT: How to Prepare Your Career and Business
AI is fundamentally reshaping the IT sector, requiring professionals to adapt their career paths and strategies to stay competitive. Despite concerns about job losses, IT occupations are projected to grow significantly, driven by new security and infrastructure demands from AI systems. There is a...
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Amazon's War on AI Shopping Browsers
Amazon has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, demanding the shutdown of its AI-powered Comet browser's purchasing capabilities for violating Amazon's conditions of use and allegedly harming customer relationships. Perplexity responded by accusing Amazon of stifling innovation to prot...
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Unlock Clinician Expertise with Agentic AI
Modern ambient AI assistants automate medical documentation by recording and summarizing patient visits in real time, allowing physicians to focus fully on patient care. These systems enhance patient interactions by enabling better eye contact and clearer communication, while also handling tasks ...
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Google TV Remotes May Soon Be Solar-Powered
Google TV remotes may soon be solar-powered through a partnership between Epishine and Ohsung Electronics, eliminating disposable batteries by using rechargeable ones and solar cells that work under indoor lighting. The G32 reference remote, produced by Ohsung, allows hardware makers to adopt thi...
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Rising AI Chatbots Face Consumer Skepticism
Businesses are rapidly adopting conversational AI, with 63% in advanced development stages and 85% of consumers having used AI agents, but a significant gap exists between business confidence (90%) and actual consumer satisfaction (59%). Consumer satisfaction with AI interactions is improving, ri...
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How AI Data Centers Are Reshaping the US Economy
Major tech companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are projected to spend nearly $370 billion on AI data centers in 2025, an unprecedented investment that is reshaping the U.S. economy and contributing significantly to GDP growth. AI-related stocks have driven the majority of S&P 500...
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Beverley Man Rejects AI-Led Interview as 'Disrespectful'
Richard Stott, a comedian and writer, withdrew from a job interview after learning it would be AI-led, stating that the lack of human engagement was unacceptable and disrespectful. Recruitment professionals acknowledge AI's growing role in hiring but warn that over-reliance on it may cause compan...
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Take-Two CEO's Surprising AI Hesitation: The Real Reason
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick advocates caution in adopting AI, prioritizing intellectual property protection over rapid innovation to avoid legal risks. Zelnick highlights that AI-generated content often lacks copyright protection, posing significant business threats to valuable franc...
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The AI Debate Is Drowning Out Everything Else
The intense focus on artificial intelligence is overshadowing other important technological discussions, making it difficult to avoid the topic despite its significance. AI is not a new invention or a magical solution; it has evolved for decades, with generative AI being useful in specific cases ...
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AI's New Role in Measuring Pain
Artificial intelligence is being used for objective pain assessment through facial analysis, with the PainChek app already deployed in aged care in Australia and other countries, showing reductions in antipsychotic use and falls. The AI system provides a quick, standardized pain score via smartph...
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AI Will Transform Every Job, Says Walmart CEO
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon asserts that AI will fundamentally reshape every job across all sectors, emphasizing that this transformation does not necessarily mean mass layoffs but will require significant investment in employee upskilling. AI's impact extends beyond white-collar roles to all workf...
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Microsoft-Backed VEIR Supercharges Data Centers with Superconductors
Data centers are facing a critical power infrastructure challenge as energy demands per rack are escalating exponentially, from 200 kilowatts to a projected megawatt, making conventional cables impractical due to space and heat issues. Veir, a startup backed by Microsoft, is adapting superconduct...
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How Bias Corrupts Medical Practice
The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" report was criticized for including fabricated citations, likely generated by AI, which undermines its recommendation to address the scientific replication crisis. AI's tendency to invent information, or "hallucinate," poses risks in legal and medica...
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Lucid Unveils Its Own Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Lucid Motors is partnering with Nvidia to develop Level 4 self-driving technology for consumer vehicles, aiming to deliver the first fully autonomous experience for personal car owners by 2026. The feasibility of consumer-owned autonomous vehicles is increasing as hardware costs like lidar and co...
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The End of Screens: How AI Is Changing Our Devices
AI is poised to liberate us from screen-dominated lives by enabling interactions through voice, gestures, and integrated wearables, shifting technology from visual interfaces to ambient, seamless experiences. The transition to this new paradigm is already underway, with voice-first AI assistants ...
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Oman Climbs to 69th in Global Innovation Index, Jumps 5 Spots
Oman rose to 69th in the 2025 Global Innovation Index, reflecting its commitment to a knowledge-based economy through investments in technology, education, and infrastructure. The country ranked in the top twenty globally in six sub-indicators, including economic clusters, policy stability, and s...
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AI & Live Streaming: Automation & Analytics at Streaming Media 2025
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming live streaming by automating workflows and providing deep analytical insights, enhancing reliability and efficiency. Experts advocate for a hybrid approach where AI handles repetitive tasks to boost productivity while humans retain con...
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Microsoft Stock Dips as Analysts Warn of Steam Machine Threat
Microsoft's stock dipped due to investor concerns over Valve's Steam Machine potentially disrupting the console market and accelerating a shift away from traditional hardware. The Steam Machine poses a strategic threat by commercializing a PC-console hybrid model that could relegate Microsoft to ...
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Samsung's Galaxy S26 to prioritize affordability over battery tech
Samsung is shifting its Galaxy S26 strategy to prioritize affordability over advancements in battery technology or device thinness, moving away from its previous focus on slimmer designs. The company aims to maintain stable pricing for the Galaxy S26 lineup, matching the Galaxy S25's starting pri...
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Amazon's 'House of David' Creator Defends 350+ AI Shots in Season 2
The second season of *House of David* heavily utilized AI to create epic visuals at a fraction of the cost and time, with 350-400 AI-generated shots enhancing scenes like battles and landscapes. Showrunner Jon Erwin compares his filmmaking approach to a puppet show, where real elements are integr...
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Hyundai's New Elexio SUV Features Standard Dolby Atmos
Hyundai is introducing Dolby Atmos spatial audio as a standard feature in its affordable Elexio EV SUV in China, making this premium technology accessible beyond luxury vehicles. The Dolby Atmos system is included across all trims without extra cost, using a six-speaker setup with an optional eig...
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The Smart Glasses Race Is Officially Heating Up
A new wave of smart glasses is emerging, blending fashion with digital capabilities to deliver notifications, media, and navigation directly into the user's field of view, creating a seamless physical-digital bridge. Apple is accelerating its smart glasses initiatives, potentially offering both d...
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