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HAIAN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 7, 2023 - A crab farmer sells crabs via a live webcast at Xinhai village in Haian city, Jiangsu province, China, Nov 7, 2023. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Livestream shopping is taking off in China, driving development of new tech products such as virtual human streamers and mobile data packages.It's an attempt to monetize — and innovate — in one of the few bright spots for an economy that's largely slowing in growth.Livestreaming…

Visitors look at a Jidu Robo-01 electric SUV during the 20th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition at Canton Fair Complex on Dec. 30, 2022 in Guangzhou, China.Zou Wei | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, the U.S. government accused a former Apple employee, Weibao Wang, of stealing trade secrets from the company's self-driving car division, including the entirety of Apple's "autonomous" source code.The U.S. government did not identify in the charging documents who Wang works for now, but according to…

SINGAPORE: China's top internet regulator proposed rules Tuesday to control artificial-intelligence tools similar to ChatGPT, putting it at the forefront of efforts by governments worldwide to tame the new technology amid concerns over the challenges it poses. SINGAPORE: China's top internet regulator proposed rules…

Tech giant Alibaba is seeking companies to test its Tongyi Qianwen AI chatbot, business publication STAR Market Daily reported on Friday, joining the rush to emulate the explosive success of ChatGPT. The free-to-use ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) application created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, was released to the public last November and can generate articles and essays on demand in response to user prompts. Alibaba has opened up registration for businesses to conduct testing for its AI application, STAR Market…

Search giant Baidu's lacklustre unveiling of its chatbot exposed gaps in China's race to rival ChatGPT, as censorship and a US squeeze on chip imports have hamstrung the country's artificial intelligence ambitions.The highly anticipated preview of "Ernie Bot" last week was limited to a pre-recorded demonstration with simple questions to summarise the plot of a sci-fi novel and solving a straightforward algebra equation -- to avoid politically and factually incorrect answers. From cloud computing to autonomous driving,…

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has set up a development team to work on a ChatGPT-like chatbot, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. ChatGPT's uncanny ability to create cogent blocks of text instantly has sparked worldwide frenzied interest in the technology behind it called generative AI. Although Microsoft-backed OpenAI does not allow users in China to create accounts to access the chatbot, the open AI models behind the programme are relatively accessible and are increasingly being incorporated…

China's Baidu Inc will use its ChatGPT-like app Ernie Bot to create a "revolutionary" version of its popular search engine, the company's CEO said on Wednesday. Baidu, which has invested heavily in artificial intelligence in recent years, is regarded as at the forefront of efforts to create a Chinese rival to the AI platform developed by OpenAI and backed by Microsoft Corp. Ahead of Ernie Bot's launch in March, Baidu CEO Robin Li told reporters on a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter…

Visitors look at a Jidu Robo-01 electric SUV during the 20th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition at Canton Fair Complex on Dec. 30, 2022 in Guangzhou, China.Zou Wei | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Baidu's ChatGPT-like product is set to come to electric, assisted-driving cars, startup Jidu said Tuesday.Jidu, backed by Baidu and Geely, is using Baidu's Apollo system for the in-car user interface and assisted driving tech. The startup plans to deliver its first car this year.related investing newsJidu…

Photo: testing (Shutterstock)Chinese-owned internet company Baidu Inc. is reportedly launching a ChatGPT-style bot in March to merge with the company’s search engine eventually, an unnamed source familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Baidu, known as China’s version of Google, reportedly plans to incorporate artificial intelligence into its online search engine, making it one of the few tech companies worldwide to implement the technology.The news comes following a years-long effort by Baidu to research AI…

Southwest Airlines aircrafts are seen at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) on December 22, 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in midday trading.Southwest — Shares dropped more than 4% after the company canceled 70% of its scheduled flights and warned that mass disruptions would continue "for the next several days." Airlines had canceled thousands of U.S. flights over the last week in the midst of severe snow, ice, high winds and…