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May 8 (Reuters) — Chip designer Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said on Monday it would buy Israel’s Autotalks Ltd that makes chips used in technology aimed at preventing vehicle crashes, as the U.S. firm looks to deepen its automotive business.

With increasing electric vehicles and automatic features in cars, the number of chips used by automakers is surging, making the automotive market a key growth area for chipmakers.

Autotalks makes dedicated chips used in the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications technology for manned and driverless vehicles to improve road safety.

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The Code Interpreter is probably the most interesting ChatGPT plugin of OpenAI and opens up completely new capabilities for the Chatbot.

At the end of March, OpenAI introduced a groundbreaking new feature for ChatGPT: Plugins. One of them is a so-called Code Interpreter. With it, the language model can not only generate code, but also execute it independently.

As with Auto-GPT, the busy developer community has found exciting use cases for this technology in a very short time. Especially for data journalism and similar data-based analysis, the tool seems to open up completely new possibilities. This is also due to the possibility of uploading and downloading files up to 100 MB in size.

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Airplane startup Boom is set to make supersonic flight on airlines a reality with their all new plane called Overture. The Boom Overture supersonic plane is set to be the new Concorde breaking the sound barrier and speed of sound marking a next chapter in passenger Aviation. United Airlines is one of many companies that have already placed orders with Boom for their new supersonic plane and customers can expect to fly on this new plane in the next couple of years. Join us today as we learn more about Boom’s Supersonic plane called Overture.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to advance and has now defeated a human fighter pilot in a virtual combat simulation.

This result was achieved in the US Army’s AlphaDogfight competition, which aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of developing autonomous agents capable of defeating enemy aircraft in aerial combat.

Eight teams participated in a series of tests and in the final last Thursday, Heron Systems was declared the winner after two days of aerial combat using only nose-mounted guns.

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Toyota’s latest electric LQ concept car satisfies the “huмan need to Ƅe engaged eмotionally” with an on-Ƅoard artificial intelligence agent naмed Yui.

The Toyota LQ is Ƅoth fully electric and equipped with an SAE leʋel four equiʋalent autoмated driʋing systeм, мeaning no huмan interʋention is needed to driʋe the ʋehicle.

Its мain feature howeʋer is the on-Ƅoard AI-powered, interactiʋe agent, called Yui, which proʋides a personalised мoƄility experience Ƅy learning and responding to the driʋer’s eмotional and physical state.

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