Competitors Alibaba and Baidu are also working on products similar to the viral chatbot, which so far remains inaccessible in China

Users would become more dependent on the Baidu search engine once it is embedded with the AI-powered chatbot, company CEO Robin Li told reporters

The US government plans to bar investment in some Chinese tech companies, to stop American money pouring into sensitive sectors such as chips for artificial intelligence

Baidu also said earlier this week it will soon finish internal testing for a ChatGPT alternative called 'Ernie Bot'

Google's AI chatbot Bard, touted as a competitor to ChatGPT, shared inaccurate information in a promotional video

Lessons have been taken from the war in Ukraine where drones have played a crucial role on both sides, Taiwan's defence ministry said

Chinese tech giant Baidu said internal testing for its own artificial intelligence creation will be completed in March, Nikkei said

Washington hopes to deploy more Western mobile phone networks in India and also welcome more Indian computer chip specialists to the US

US officials are now blocking 4G items, Wifi 6 and 7, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing and cloud items from being shipped to Huawei; China says this is a serious concern

Thousands of Indian IT workers in the US who lost their jobs in mass layoffs by tech giants in recent months are hunting new jobs in a desperate bid to say in the country

The Indian billionaire said the app has astounding capabilities and described it as a "transformational moment in the democratisation" of artificial intelligence

China's artificial intelligence programme has no legal constraints and could be used for many illegal purposes, FBI chief Christopher Wray said at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week