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Taiwan’s UMC Ends Merger Rumors With GlobalFoundries

Taiwan’s UMC Ends Merger Rumors With GlobalFoundries

Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has denied rumors of merger discussions with GlobalFoundries, which is a U.S.-based contract chipmaker. This report puts on pause to ongoing buzz in the market about a potential deal between two companies amid ongoing geopolitical turbulence in the semiconductor industry.    According to the report by Nikkei Asia on Monday, two companies had explored a merger as part of U.S. plans to strengthen its semiconductor supply chain. However, UMC refuted these claims the next day, stating via United Daily News that it would not comment on market rumors, saying, “there is no merger going […]

Samsung Galaxy S25 Arrives with AI-Powered Innovation and Enhanced Features

Samsung Galaxy S25 Arrives with AI-Powered Innovation and Enhanced Features

Korea – Samsung Electronics declared that the global launch of the Galaxy S25 series has been completed, enabling the latest in AI-powered features and optimized hardware. With One UI 7, Samsung’s new flagship smartphones now feature Gemini AI, available in 46 languages, enabling seamless multimodal interactions across Samsung and Google apps. “The Galaxy S25 series is a fundamental shift in how we interact with our phones,” said TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics. “We are thrilled to see how our users will enjoy this true AI companion that offers seamless and intuitive solutions in […]

Samsung Unveils AI-Powered Interactive Display at Bett 2025

Samsung Unveils AI-Powered Interactive Display at Bett 2025

Samsung Electronics made its foray into the Bett 2025, Europe’s largest exhibition for educational technology, by showcasing an AI-powered Interactive Display (WAFX-P model). The display integrates Samsung AI Assistant to create interactive, engaging, and collaborative learning environments. “Samsung envisions a future where every classroom benefits from the transformative power of AI. By integrating advanced tools like generative AI and real-time transcription into our classroom displays with Samsung AI Assistant, we are not just enhancing learning — we are revolutionizing it,” said Hoon Chung, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “We are committed to creating technology […]

Samsung Releases 6G White Paper Emphasizing AI Integration

Samsung Releases 6G White Paper Emphasizing AI Integration

Seoul – Samsung Electronics has come out with a 6G white paper titled “AI-Native & Sustainable Communication,” sharing the latest trends in next-generation mobile communication technologies. This publication follows their very first white paper on 6G titled “The Next Hyper-Connected Experience for All,” which appeared in July 2020. The paper lays out the changing market and technology needs, new emerging services, 6G key characteristics, and enabling technologies. “We are intensifying our 6G research efforts, focusing on AI-enabled communication technologies and sustainable networks,” said Charlie Zhang, Senior Vice President of Advanced Communications Research Center (ACRC), Samsung Research. “As the telecommunication industry […]

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OpenAI and CSU Partner for Nationwide AI Education Expansion

California – In a move that heralds unprecedented development in AI education initiatives, California State University has announced a systemwide deployment of ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s generative AI engine for universities. This rollout provides AI learning tools to over 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff across 23 campuses, making it the largest implementation worldwide of ChatGPT technology.  For CSU, this rollout is part of a grand vision of evolving into an AI university system in association with some of the major tech vendors, such as OpenAI, Adobe, Google, AWS, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Instructure, and LinkedIn. In the coming weeks, […]

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UK Initiates AI Trial to Enhance Breast Cancer Detection

London – The UK government has announced an extensive trial involving nearly 700,000 women to evaluate the effectiveness of artificial intelligence in the early detection of breast cancer. With £11 million funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), this initiative will see the integration of AI into 30 NHS breast screening sites across the UK. AI tools assess mammograms for possible signs of cancer and improve the efficiency of the screening process by assisting radiologists. As of now, each screening is carried out by two specialists; with AI, that number would be one, allowing the redeployment […]

OpenAI, SoftBank Launch 'Cristal Intelligence' for Enterprises

OpenAI, SoftBank Launch ‘Cristal Intelligence’ for Enterprises

Tokyo – SoftBank Group and OpenAI have come together to jointly develop and commercialize ‘Cristal Intelligence,’ an advanced enterprise AI system designed to integrate securely with business operations. SoftBank will invest $3 billion a year in the deployment of OpenAI solutions across its group companies, including Arm and SoftBank Corp. Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., said, “We are thrilled to bring Cristal intelligence, Advanced Enterprise AI that is customized specifically for each company, to the market in a big way. This initiative will not only transform the way SoftBank Group operates but also revolutionize the way […]

OpenAI Unveils ‘Deep Research’ Agent for Advanced Online Analysis

OpenAI Unveils ‘Deep Research’ Agent for Advanced Online Analysis

Deep Research, the most recent addition to OpenAI’s catalog and an advanced AI agent, aims to automatically execute multi-step internet research by collating vast amounts of online information into one comprehensive report. The new feature, which is now available for Pro users and will soon be available for Plus and Team subscribers, aims to speed up complex research across a myriad of fields, including finance and engineering. Deep Research runs on an optimized version of the next OpenAI o3 model and performs analysis and interpretation of data from possibly hundreds of sources in an autonomous manner. It applies reasoning techniques […]

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KRAFTON Unveils Revolutionary AI-Powered Co-Playable Character at CES 2025

The PUBG and other prominent games’ developer from South Korea, called KRAFTON has now immersed itself into the future of video games. They unveiled their new innovative idea known as Co-Playable Character {CPC} at the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2025 in Las Vegas. This innovative NPC created in partnership with NVIDIA and based on generative AI is a breakthrough for the video gaming industry. KRAFTON and NVIDIA cooperated and on January 8th it revealed advanced technology at the largest IT show in the world at Fontainebleau Hotel. NVIDIA ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine), On which this partnership resides also includes some […]

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NVIDIA Revolutionizes PCs with RTX AI Garage & GeForce RTX 50 Series

Once again, NVIDIA has come up with extraordinary developments in the realm of technology. Recent activities include producing the RTX AI Garage series and unveiling the exceedingly resistant GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs at CES today. All these fantastic achievements are aimed at a single objective of changing how generative AI is used by developers, PC enthusiasts, and creators. It looks like RTX AI Garage series is going to become the primary platform for the developers and computer lovers, who would want to explore the NIM microservices and AI Blueprints by NVIDIA. These strong tools enable the growth of a […]