What’s happening: Talks in Brussels about a € 750 billion ($ 859 billion) aid package lasted until its fourth day on Monday, as the frugal northern countries stood firm by limiting the proportion of subsidies in the combination, instead of loans. The conditions that would be attached to the financing …
Read More »UK signs agreements with BioNTech, Pfizer and Valneva for COVID-19 vaccines
The UK government said on Monday it has secured early access to 90 million doses of vaccines from two potential COVID-19 vaccines developed by a partnership between Germany’s BioNTech and US drug maker Pfizer, as well as one by the group. French Valneva. The business ministry said it had signed …
Read More »Ford chooses this chip giant’s autonomous driving team in a race against Tesla
Intel’s Autonomous Driving Unit (INTC) Mobileye continues to park some big business wins in its garage. Mobileye announced Monday that it was selected by automotive giant Ford (F) as the provider of vision detection technology for the company’s driver assistance systems. The technology will support Tier 1 and Tier 2 …
Read More »The gorgeous Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 5G has been leaked for the first time
A Galaxy Note-like camera bump on the back Originally posted on Weibo and then shared by Ishan Agarwal on Twitter, the render in question reveals that Samsung has decided to unify the design language of the Galaxy Note series and the Galaxy Z Fold range by adopting seemingly identical camera …
Read More »OpenAI’s latest AI text generator, GPT-3, surprises early users
The AI research team OpenAI Inc. recently released the latest version of its GPT-3 general-purpose natural language processing model in private beta, and its capabilities are staggering to early testers. GPT-3 is the third generation of OpenAI’s Generative Preformed Transformer, which is a general-purpose language algorithm that uses machine learning …
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