The head of AI at Meta believes that super intelligence in AI won’t arrive anytime soon and has doubts about quantum computing

Yann LeCun, the chief scientist at Meta and a pioneer in deep learning, stated that he thinks it will take decades for current AI systems to resemble sentient beings with common sense and the capacity to do more than just creatively summarize massive amounts of text. His viewpoint differs from that of Nvidia CEO Jensen…

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Microsoft closes at record high amid renewed optimism surrounding OpenAI

Tuesday’s trading session saw Microsoft close at a record high of $360.53 on the back of renewed growth expectations from a significant artificial intelligence partner. The software maker’s market value has increased by 1.12% per day to approximately $2.68 trillion. All of the main American indexes saw gains for the day; the S&P 500 saw…

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FinTech behemoth Revolut names a new UK CEO amidst difficulties getting a banking license

Francesca Carlesi, a former executive at Barclays, has been named as the new CEO of Revolut, a European FinTech company, effective Thursday. Carlesi, who has fifteen years of experience in the financial services industry and was previously employed at Deutsche Bank, was most recently the CEO of Molo Finance, a digital mortgage lender. Revolut’s spokesperson…

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Meta’s WhatsApp is going after big businesses to capitalize on the app’s popularity

It’s been nearly a decade since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shocked the tech world by announcing that his company would spend $19 billion on WhatsApp, the popular messaging app with a small business presence. Since then, WhatsApp has remained somewhat of an anachronism. Usage continued to grow, with over 2 billion people using the app…

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