Petr Mára, a well-known technology enthusiast and influencer, described himself in an interview as an optimist when it comes to modern technology. While he is aware that advances in technology can cause negative effects in some areas, he believes that overall the positive effects outweigh the negative ones. Recently, he has been focusing main...
This year will be a challenge for the Google search engine. OpenAI has launched its search engine with artificial intelligence functionality that could significantly change the way we use internet search engines. The new SearchGPT search engine should be faster and more accurate than current standard search engines. How will SearchGPT work? ...
With an estimated price tag of $23 billion (approximately CZK 534 billion), the planned acquisition of Israeli startup Wiz was to be the largest ever purchase by US tech giant Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The deal, if completed, would significantly strengthen Alphabet's position in the cybersecurity field. However, Israeli startup Wiz...
From the beginning of next month, a new European regulation on artificial intelligence (AI) known as the AI Act will come into force. This regulation, which will be phased in over time, gives companies and authorities two years to prepare before it becomes fully binding. However, some parts of the regulation will be enforceable after just six mo...
Fast food chain McDonald's has postponed its plans to introduce AI-based automated service for McDrive. The system, which has been tested since 2019 in partnership with IBM, wasn't perfect and sometimes gave drivers incorrect orders. Frustrated customers filmed some of the situations on mobile phones and posted the videos on social media, the...
In 2023, the Czech internet company Seznam.cz recorded a slight increase in its revenues by 0.18% to a total of CZK 5.939 billion. Similarly, pre-tax profit increased slightly by 6.06% to CZK 1.362 billion compared to the previous year. Pavel Zima, a member of the board of directors of Seznam.cz, hailed this result as very successful, despite...
The Google I/O developer conference, held on May 14, brought a number of significant innovations with an emphasis on advances in artificial intelligence. Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, introduced several key innovations. Google introduced a major enhancement to its AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro. This model, originally launched with an information pr...
Driven by the boom in artificial intelligence (AI), US company Nvidia has grown significantly over the past year, so that its market value now exceeds the entire German stock market and even the gross domestic product of Russia or Canada. Only seven global economies and companies like Microsoft and Apple are ahead of it. When it released its ...
SAP has extended the employment contract of CEO Christian Klein for another three years and appointed him Chairman of the Board. This decision was announced today. Klein, who has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2018, began sharing the role of CEO in October 2019 and was promoted to the company's sole CEO in April 2020. Pr...
