Over 150 specialists in the field of artificial intelligence, ethics, art, law and technologies took part on Thursday in the virtual kick-off event of the project EthicAI - a joint initiative by the Goethe-Institutes in Ankara, Athens, Bucharest, Sarajevo, Sofia and Zagreb, aimed at exploring the intersections of AI and ethics and provoking a critical, multidisciplinary dialogue on the topic through a series of open lectures and panel discussions.

Sony Group said on Wednesday it will spend 2 trillion yen ($18.39bn) over the next three years on strategic investments, including a push to expand subscribers to its gaming and entertainment services. Company's main aim is to accelerate investments in mobile and online services henceforth expanding the number of consumers directly connected to its services to 1 billion people from 160 million.

China's Huawei Technologies announced it will launch its new Harmony operating system for smartphones on 2 June, which, as reported by Reuters, is company's biggest move. At the same time it is a necessity aimed at recovering from the damage done by US sanctions to its mobile phone business.

Microsoft has teamed up with Qualcomm to create a Windows on ARM-based dev kit for developers. The miniature PC will be sold at the Microsoft Store this summer, and is designed to be more affordable to encourage developers to create ARM64 apps for Snapdragon-based PCs, The Verge reports.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has recently joined the cryptocurrency bandwagon after registering its patent last Thursday, 13 May. As reported by TechTimes, the said patent will be focused on its e-sports betting platform, which will let the users use bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. 

Samsung's already got a nice little ecosystem of foldable smartphones going, with the Galaxy Z Fold 2 and the original Fold positioned as flagships, and the vertically-folding Galaxy Z Flip being the more affordable option. But the company's plans for foldables don't stop there, as a new concept video proves. 

Facebook wants to whet consumers’ appetite for live-streamed shopping with this week’s launch of “Live Shopping Fridays” event series, which will see larger brands live streaming beauty, skincare, and fashion content on a weekly basis.

The world's biggest buyers of semiconductor chips revealed plans to set a lobbying group aimed to press for government financial involvement to offset the current market deficit, Reuters reported. The lobbing group will include major consumers like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google and producers like Intel. The group will press for government chip manufacturing subsidies. It has already asked US lawmakers to provide funding for the CHIPS for America Act, for which President Joe Biden has asked Congress to provide $50 billion.

US high-tech company SpaceX announced it had achieved in successfully landing its Starship prototype, Reuters reported. Before the safe touchdown, the company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has conceded four failures which resulted in crashes and explosions on landing. The latest test involved a next-generation launch vehicle in south Texas.

China has launched the main module of its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long-term. The Tianhe, or ‘Heavenly Harmony’, module blasted into space on Thursday atop a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan.