Chinese tech giant Tencent will launch its “Hunyuan” artificial intelligence model for enterprises at its annual summit on Thursday, said Dowson Tong, chief executive of Tencent’s cloud and intelligence industry group. The news comes a few days after Baidu unveiled a slew of AI-powered apps on Tuesday because of more supportive regulation. Tencent said it…
Tesla plans to install 20,000 electric vehicle charging stations at 2,000 Hilton properties in the United States, Mexico, and Canada early next year, the companies said Thursday. For Tesla, building wall plugs is another way to increase mass adoption by providing more convenient charging locations. The company’s Universal Wall Connector can charge any North American…
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, catalogs the fates of the Soviet Union’s first 11 space missions before the spacecraft successfully landed on the moon as stuck, failed, missed, failed, failed, stuck, failed, crashed, missed, crashed and crashed. Even today—there have been nine moon landings since 2013—achievements are mixed. It just…
The members of PayPal’s board announced that PayPal’s new CEO will be Alex Chriss. He currently runs the small business and self-employed group at Intuit. Chriss will take over for PayPal’s present CEO Dan Schulman from Sept. 27. Schulman had earlier announced a plan to resign from the role by the end of 2023. He will…
