Over €2.5 billion confirmed for Eindhoven area, technical education in bid to keep ASML

The Dutch government announced a plan on Thursday to invest a total of 2.51 billion euros in the Eindhoven region and in expanding the availability of technical education. The caretaker Cabinet will release 1.28 billion euros from the National Growth Fund for the plan, and will contribute an additional 450 million euros on top of that. The Eindhoven region will put up the remaining 780 million euros, said Economic Affairs Minister Micky Adriaansens.

What else can ChatGPT-4o do?

The much-hyped event also unveiled a voice mode that can read body motion, such as how heavy a user breathes, and can generate voice in different emotive styles when asked, such as a robot or singing voice.

It also replies to comments in a human-like way, such as when it was complimented for being “useful and amazing,” it replied: “Oh stop it, you’re making me blush”.

“Talking to a computer has never felt really natural for me; now it does. As we add (optional) personalisation, access to your information, the ability to take actions on your behalf, and more, I can really see an exciting future where we are able to use computers to do much more than ever before,” OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman said in a blog.

The company said that, unlike earlier versions, users can interrupt the model and it can reply in real-time, cutting the 2-3 second time lag.

ChatGPT is also now capable of detecting emotion by looking at a face through the camera. During the demo, they showed a smiling face and the AI asked “Want to share the reason for your good vibes?”

Germany: Russian hacker attacks also against logistics and defense companies

The deputy government spokesperson Wolfgang Buechner, based on reliable information from the German secret services, said today that cyberattacks by the Apt28 group – linked to Russian intelligence – hit several German institutions. These include state bodies and companies in the logistics, armaments, aerospace, IT services sectors, as well as foundations and associations. Buechner’s statements closely follow those made by the Foreign Minister a few hours ago Annalena Baerbock (Greens) during a state visit to Adelaide, Australia.

Baerbock had accused Russian intelligence (GRU) of a cyber attack against the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at the beginning of last year. ”We can clearly attribute this attack to the Apt28 group, controlled by the Russian military intelligence service GRU. In other words: State hackers from the Kremlin attacked the Germany in cyberspace” the minister declared. Following these statements, the German Foreign Ministry today summoned the interim charge d’affaires of the Russian embassy.

Following these statements, the German Foreign Ministry today summoned the interim charge d’affaires of the Russian embassy.