Bloomberg Amazon’s Echo has made tangible the promise of an artificially intelligent personal assistant in every home. Those who own the voice-activated gadget (known colloquially as Alexa, after its female interlocutor) are prone to proselytizing “her” charms, applauding Alexa’s ability to call an Uber, order pizza or check a 10th-grader’s math homework. The company says more than 5,000 people ...

  San Francisco / AFP Mark Zuckerberg’s artificial intelligence-imbued software “butler” — named Jarvis — is now in service, and even plays with his family, the Facebook chief said. Zuckerberg took on the personal project this year, devoting about 100 hours to making a system inspired by the “Iron Man” film character Jarvis as a virtual assistant to help manage ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The value of shares bought by foreign investors registered at the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange in November 2016, amounted to AED2.97 billion, constituting 48.3 per cent of the total trading value. Meanwhile, foreign investors sell value during the same period reached AED2.9 billion, constituting 48.5 per cent of total turnover. As a result, net foreign ...