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Google on Tuesday said it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries, in one of the biggest changes to its world leading search engine in 25 years.

"I'm excited to announce that we will begin launching this fully revamped experience, 'AI overviews,' to everyone in the U.S. this week," Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said at an event in California.

OpenAI on Monday released a higher performing and even more human-like version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its popular generative tool ChatGPT, making it free to all users.

The pandemic catapulted Greece into the digital era, with the rapid adoption of e-government services. And in the aftermath, the Greek RRF - Greece 2.0 - featured innovation and digitalization as a prominent pillar for the new Greek economy, with a budget in excess of 30 billion euros.

Microsoft said Wednesday it would create Thailand's first data centre region to boost cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, promising AI training to more than 100,000 Thais to develop tech.

Bangkok is a key economic player in Southeast Asia, but it has lagged behind Indonesia and Singapore when it comes to the tech industry.

The chief executives of OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are among the high-profile members of a new federal board created to advise the U.S. government on the "safe and secure" development of artificial intelligence.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has said its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6 percent increase on the average price of ads on its platforms.

But its shares dropped sharply in after-hours trading following lukewarm revenue guidance.

Traders are lookling ahead this week to the release of key U.S. inflation data and corporate earnings.

With Iran downplaying Israel's reported attack on the country, tensions between the regional rivals cooled.

While the situation remains tense, the lack of escalation over the weekend provided traders with an opportunity to pick up equities and helped push oil down.

Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rivals, according to data provided to Reuters by six companies.

Facebook and Instagram giant Meta on Friday said it will begin labeling AI-generated media beginning in May, as it tries to reassure users and governments over the risks of deepfakes.

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon.