Elon Musk announces his resignation from Twitter leadership. A successor has already been determined. However, Musk himself will remain with the company. Deutsche Telekom has its business figures and shows a net profit in the billions. This is not the only reason why CEO Tim Höttges is confident and ambitious. And Google’s conversational AI Bard is coming to more countries and languages soon. But Germany and the EU are left out for the time being – the most important reports in a nutshell.
US billionaire Elon Musk has his Resignation as CEO of Twitter announced. He has already a successor found. This will twitter in about six weeks take over. Musk has not yet revealed who the successor is. He himself will remain with the company retained in another capacity. The announcement came, as it should, via tweet. Elon Musk announces semi-retirement from Twitter
According to its own statements, Deutsche Telekom had a “successful” start to the year. That is Group sales stagnated in the first three months of the 2023 financial year compared to the previous year. But by selling a majority stake in the radio tower subsidiary net profit quadrupled for the quarter almost to 15.4 billion euros. CEO Tim Höttges also sees otherwise reason to be confident and has ambitious goals for the current year. Radio tower deal gives Telekom billions in profit
Google also has ambitious goals and these are only just beginning at his developer conference I/O presents. So shall Bard, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the good friend and helper in pretty much all Google products. While ChatGPT can only evaluate information up to 2021, Google’s conversation AI knows the entire internet. Bard has been since March for individuals via a waiting list available in the US and UK. With the I/O, Google has the Waiting list abolished. Bard is also available in English, Korean and Japanese available in 180 countries. Germany and the rest of the EU will have to wait. There seems to be a reason for this. Google I/O: Bard moves in everywhere and hallucinates about Germany
The EU Commission this week Semiconductor warning system pilot project based on the planned European chip regulation began. The instrument should be early on emerging supply bottlenecks draw attention and so help those in some sectors ongoing chip crisis to fight. In times of crisis, there is also the option intervene in the operations of companies and impose export controls. This can be activated through emergency measures before the Chips Act comes into force. But that is exactly what is calling warning voices on the plan. Chips law: EU launches early warning system for future semiconductor bottlenecks
lead Committees of the European Parliament meanwhile deal with artificial intelligence (AI) have their line e.gur planned AI regulation decided. AI must therefore in the future democratic rules of the game follow that fundamental rights of citizens true and the common good serve. Part of the 144-page compromise is a extensive ban on biometric mass surveillance in public space, which MEPs consider “unacceptable”. For ChatGPT & Co. should particularly strict rules are valid. Biometric mass surveillance: MEPs want to democratize AI
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