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Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on Wednesday committed to growth and investment across India in meeting with the country's prime minister, Narendra Modi , in New Delhi. Cook is on a visit to India this week and inaugurated the iPhone maker's first retail store in the country on Tuesday in Mumbai. Apple will also open a retail store in New Delhi on Thursday. "We share your vision of the positive impact technology can make on India's future — from education and developers to manufacturing and the environment, we're committed to growing and investing across the country," Cook wrote on Twitter and shared a picture of him shaking hands with Modi. In response, the Indian PM tweeted that it was an "absolute delight" to meet Cook. "Glad to exchange views on diverse topics and highlight the tech-powered transformations taking place in India," Modi said. Cook's visit to India underscores Apple 's growing ambitions for the country

Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , held its Snap Partner Summit 2023 on Tuesday (April 19) and introduced a slew of new features and experiences to enhance user experience on the platform. The company has added new options to its signature story formats in the annual event and added fresh Calling Lenses and location-sharing options for the Snap Map. It has also introduced new programmes to assist creators in monetisation and engagement with their audience. Snap is also expanding its AR try-on features that let users use their cameras to virtually try on products. It is also rolling out My AI chatbot running on OpenAI's GPT technology to global markets. The social media company claimed that it has reached over 750 million monthly active users around the world. At the virtual summit, Snap announced new Calling Lenses that let users appear together in one frame during video calls without any grid. Stories are getting two new options — After Dark and Communities. The former can b

iPhone 15 Pro Max is expected to launch later this year along with the rest of the iPhone 15 lineup. The device has previously been rumoured to be introduced with the iPhone 15 Ultra moniker. Multiple reports over the past few months have suggested several design and specifications advancements and changes over its predecessors. It is expected to feature notably slim bezels, with a titanium frame and likely see a price increase. A new report suggests, backed by earlier reports, that the Pro Max device this time will feature highly enhanced optical zoom lenses. According to a MacRumors report , the iPhone 15 Pro Max is expected to feature a periscope lens, enabling up to 5-6x optical zoom. In June 2022, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggested that the periscope technology would be included in the telephoto lens, allowing for up to 6x zoom while capturing photographs with the rear camera without distortion or image quality loss. With a periscope lens, the light captured by the image sen

Broadcom on Tuesday released a new chip for wiring together supercomputers for artificial intelligence (AI) work using networking technology that is already in wide use. Broadcom is a major supplier of chips for Ethernet switches, which are the primary way the computers inside conventional data centers are connected to one another. But the rise of AI applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Alphabet 's Bard have presented new challenges for the networks inside data centers. In order to respond to questions with human-like answers, such systems must be trained using huge amounts of data. That job is far too big for one computer chip to handle. Instead, the job must be split up over thousands of chips called graphics processing units (GPUs), which then have to function like one giant computer to work on the job for weeks or even months at a time. That makes the speed at which the individual chips can communicate important. Broadcom on Tuesday announced a new chip, Jericho3-A

Microsoft is developing its own artificial intelligence chip code-named "Athena" that will power the technology behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT , the Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The company, which was an early backer of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI , has been working on the chip since 2019 and it is being tested by a small group of Microsoft and OpenAI employees, the report said. According to the report, the chips will be used for training large-language models and supporting inference - both needed by generative AI like the one used in ChatGPT to process massive amounts of data, recognize patterns and create new outputs to mimic human conversation. Microsoft is hoping the chip will perform better than what it currently buys from other vendors, saving it time and money on its costly AI efforts, the report said. Other big tech companies including Amazon and Google also make their own in-house chips for AI. So far, chip designer Nv