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In today's Techpresso:
🤖 Google unveiled the 'future of AI' at I/O event
🧪 OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving
💼 Meta to shut down its Slack and Teams competitor
👀 Apple's alleged roadmap leaks: Foldable iPhones, OLED MacBooks, and AR glasses on the horizon
🚗 Former Cruise CEO starts robotics firm with ex-Tesla AI manager
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Google unveiled the 'future of AI' at I/O eventLINK
Google announced new AI products, including a major system called Project Astra, at its Google I/O developer conference.
Project Astra aims to improve AI assistants with features like memory, natural conversation, and proactive behavior.
Google also introduced AI-powered augmented reality glasses and new generative AI tools for creating images, music, and videos from text commands.
🧪 OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leavingLINK
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, is officially leaving the company.
Jakub Pachocki will take over as the new Chief Scientist at OpenAI.
Jan Leike, who led the Superalignment team, has also resigned from OpenAI.
💼 Meta to shut down its Slack and Teams competitorLINK
Meta will shut down its office communication platform Workplace by August 31st, 2025.
Meta will offer customers a 50% discount on Workplace starting in September and assist with transitioning to Workvivo.
After September 1st, 2025, Workplace will become read- and export-only until access ends and data is deleted on June 1st, 2026.
👀 Apple's alleged roadmap leaks: Foldable iPhones, OLED MacBooks, and AR glasses on the horizonLINK
Apple's future product lineup may include foldable iPhones, OLED MacBooks, and AR glasses, as per a leaked roadmap covering 2023 to 2027.
The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus might see an upgrade to 8GB of RAM, and an iPhone SE 4 with a 6.1-inch OLED screen and a 48MP camera could debut in 2025.
The roadmap also hints at a 2026 release of a foldable iPhone, OLED iPads, and an affordable Vision Pro XR headset, followed by a foldable 20.0-inch iPad and advanced AR glasses in 2027.
🚗 Former Cruise CEO starts robotics firm with ex-Tesla AI managerLINK
Former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt has launched a new robotics firm called The Bot Company.
The Bot Company was co-founded by Vogt, along with ex-Cruise advisor Luke Holoubek and former Tesla AI manager Paril Jain.
The company aims to build robots that perform chores to save people time and has raised $150 million from investors.
Other news you might like
Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer.LINK
Blue Origin sets the date for its first crewed suborbital space trip in 21 months.LINK
Exclusive: Musk's Neuralink has faced issues with its tiny wires for years, sources say.LINK
Airbus unveils half-plane, half-copter in quest for speed.LINK
Eight TikTok creators file their own suit against the divest-or-ban law.LINK
AWS continues European investment with new sovereign cloud.LINK
Latest research and tools
Glider: an open-source eInk monitor project focused on low latency and supports a wide range of electrophoretic display panels.LINK
Gaussian Blue Noise (2022): the study introduces an efficient algorithm for generating blue noise through Gaussian point processes.LINK
Abstract Interpretation as a Programming Language: the paper outlines how abstract interpretation can be used as a foundational tool for developing programming languages, enhancing their design and functionality.LINK
Mutlimodal neural networks converge to a shared statistical model of reality: multimodal neural networks tend to merge towards a common statistical understanding of the world.LINK
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