Zayed

Zayed writes Tech BD’s artificial intelligence coverage — model releases, AI safety research, and the regulation forming around them. His interest is less in what a system can demonstrate than in what it changes for someone using it in Bangladesh. He writes in both English and Bangla.

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A surgical robot learned to stitch by watching videos of surgeons — and it picks up the needle when it drops it

Johns Hopkins researchers trained a da Vinci surgical robot the way chatbots are trained — on recordings, not rules — and say it now…

4 Jan 2025

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Reid Hoffman is said to be weighing leaving the US, and Sam Altman is watching Musk: what Trump’s win means for the tech leaders who backed Harris

The LinkedIn co-founder gave millions to Kamala Harris, funded E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump and made an ill-judged joke…

4 Dec 2024

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Ten days after ChatGPT got a search engine, Google is testing a voice search you can talk back to — ask, hear results, ask again without touching the mic

A test build of the Google app, spotted by Mashable, lets users ask a question aloud, get results, and follow up with another spoken…

10 Nov 2024

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Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot joins your Teams meetings, Edge translates videos live, and AI “agents” start doing the work

At its developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced Team Copilot — an AI participant in Teams meetings that takes notes and…

22 May 2024

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A Chinese humanoid just ran 17.7 km/h — faster than any two-legged robot before it — and it dances, climbs stairs and costs less than a flat in Dhaka

Unitree Robotics’ H1 Evolution V3.0 set a speed record for humanoid robots at 11 mph, keeps its balance on its own, bends knees and ankles…

20 Mar 2024

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Grok: Musk’s xAI ships a chatbot four months after founding — reads X in real time, answers with “a rebellious streak”, and costs $16 a month via Premium+

Elon Musk announced that Grok, built by xAI in two months of training, will roll out to X’s new $16-a-month Premium+ tier after a limited…

5 Nov 2023

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Meet Aparajita: at 7 pm on Channel 24, Bangladesh’s first AI news presenter read the bulletin — a blazer, a slightly metallic voice, and fifteen days of work

Eleven and a half minutes into Wednesday’s evening news, anchor Farabi Hafiz handed over to a third presenter: a software-generated woman…

19 Jul 2023

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Musk’s xAI: twelve researchers poached from DeepMind, OpenAI and Google, a mission “to understand the universe”, and a grudge against the company he co-founded

Announced on Wednesday, xAI is Musk’s entry into the race he helped start: a company led by him, staffed by veterans of AlphaStar…

13 Jul 2023

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The UN will send driverless trucks into war zones next year: after three WFP staff were killed in Sudan, food aid goes autonomous in South Sudan

Attacks on aid workers are at their highest since the Second World War, and the World Food Programme’s innovation chief told an ITU…

8 Jul 2023

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Who owns a picture a machine painted? The three copyright fights that will decide what AI art is worth — and who gets paid for it

Artists and Getty Images are suing Stability AI for training on their work without permission; Universal Music wants streaming services to…

17 Apr 2023

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OpenAI opens the ChatGPT API at a tenth of the old price — from today any app, including one built in Dhaka, can have a chatbot for $0.002 per thousand words

The model behind ChatGPT, gpt-3.5-turbo, is now available to developers at $0.002 per 1,000 tokens — 90% below the previous GPT-3.5 price —…

2 Mar 2023

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Six things ChatGPT cannot do, three months after it stunned everyone — and why each limit is a design choice, not a bug

It knows nothing after 2021, cannot look anything up, will not predict a match or take a side in politics, is confidently wrong more often…

17 Feb 2023