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💥 Meta's plans to crush Google and Microsoft in AI
🍎 Tim Cook says big Apple AI announcement is coming later this year
🛒 Amazon announces AI shopping assistant called Rufus
🔮 Meta plans new in-house AI chip 'Artemis'
🏞️ Google's Bard gets a free AI image generator to compete with ChatGPT
🔥 Snap is recalling every Pixy drone that it ever sold
🔒 Former CIA hacker sentenced to 40 years in prison
🎁 + 9 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 Meta's plans to crush Google and Microsoft in AILINK
Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's intent to aggressively enter the AI market, aiming to outpace Microsoft and Google by leveraging the vast amount of data on its platforms.
Meta plans to make an ambitious long-term investment in AI, estimated to cost over $30 billion yearly, on top of its existing expenses.
The company's strategy includes building advanced AI products and services for users of Instagram and WhatsApp, focusing on achieving general intelligence (AGI).
🍎 Tim Cook says big Apple AI announcement is coming later this yearLINK
Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that generative AI software features are expected to be released to customers later this year, during Apple's quarterly earnings call.
The upcoming generative AI features are anticipated to be part of what could be the "biggest update" in iOS history, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
Tim Cook emphasized Apple's commitment to not disclose too much before the actual release but hinted at significant advancements in AI, including applications in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
🛒 Amazon announces AI shopping assistant called RufusLINK
Amazon introduced Rufus, a new artificial intelligence personal shopping assistant, to allow customers to ask product-related questions in a conversational manner.
Rufus aims to enhance the online shopping experience by providing recommendations and comparisons, initially available to a small subset of customers with plans for broader rollout.
In addition to launching Rufus, Amazon reported strong fourth-quarter earnings with $170 billion in sales and $10.6 billion in profits, attributed to high holiday season performance and growth in advertising and cloud computing services.
🔮 Meta plans new in-house AI chip 'Artemis'LINK
Meta is set to deploy its new AI chip "Artemis" to reduce dependence on Nvidia chips, aiming for cost savings and enhanced computing to power AI-driven experiences.
By developing in-house AI silicon like Artemis, Meta aims to save on energy and chip costs while maintaining a competitive edge in AI technologies against rivals.
The Artemis chip is focused on inference processes, complementing the GPUs Meta uses, with plans for a broader in-house AI silicon project to support its computational needs.
🏞️ Google's Bard gets a free AI image generator to compete with ChatGPTLINK
Google introduced a free image generation feature to Bard, using Imagen 2, to create images from text, offering competition to OpenAI's multimodal chatbots like ChatGPT.
The feature introduces a watermark for AI-generated images and implements safeguards against creating images of known people or explicit content, but it's not available in the EU, Switzerland, and the UK.
Bard with Gemini Pro has expanded to over 40 languages and 230 countries, and Google is also integrating Imagen 2 into its products and making it available for developers via Google Cloud Vertex AI.
🔥 Snap is recalling every Pixy drone that it ever soldLINK
Snap recalls all its Pixy drones due to a risk of the lithium batteries overheating and potentially catching fire.
The recall was prompted after receiving four reports of battery issues, including one minor fire and one minor injury, from the 70,000 devices sold.
Owners of the Pixy drone are encouraged to immediately stop using it, remove the battery, and contact Snap for a full refund through a return process.
🔒 Former CIA hacker sentenced to 40 years in prisonLINK
Joshua Schulte, a former CIA software engineer, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for passing classified information to WikiLeaks, marking the most damaging disclosure of classified information in U.S. history. The information leaked, known as the Vault 7 release in 2017, exposed CIA's hacking tools and methods, including techniques for spying on smartphones and converting internet-connected TVs into listening devices. Schulte's actions have been described as causing exceptionally grave harm to U.S. national security by severely compromising CIA's operational capabilities and putting both personnel and intelligence missions at risk.
Other news you might like
Tesla’s latest screwup involves making the font size of its braking system too small.LINK
Meta says Apple has made it ‘very difficult’ to build rival app stores in the EU.LINK
Meta’s Reality Labs loses record $4.65 billion ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch.LINK
Google Maps experiments with generative AI to improve discovery.LINK
Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired.LINK
Adobe brings Lightroom and Firefly AI to the Apple Vision Pro.LINK
Volvo prepares to call it quits on Polestar.LINK
Researchers designs robots to maintain resilient deep space habitats.LINK
YouTube now has more than 100 million Premium subscribers.LINK
Latest research and tools
Slint GUI Toolkit: a tool for creating graphical user interfaces that can run across multiple platforms efficiently.LINK
Stanchion: a tool that introduces column-oriented tables in SQLite for enhanced data organization and retrieval.LINK
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