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In today's Techpresso:
🤖 OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all
🕒 Microsoft Places uses AI to find the best time for your next office day
⚖️ Booking.com designated as EU gatekeeper, faces new regulations
🔍 Wikipedia's new Chrome extension fact-checks the web with ChatGPT
☀️ Solar storms impact GPS accuracy on farms during crucial times
🎁 + 9 other news you might like
🔮 + 1 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for allLINK
OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4o, an improved version of its GPT-4 model, promising faster performance and enhanced capabilities in text, vision, and audio.
GPT-4o is freely available to all ChatGPT users, with paid users benefiting from up to five times the capacity limits of free users.
The model is described as "natively multimodal," capable of generating content or interpreting commands across voice, text, or images.
🕒 Microsoft Places uses AI to find the best time for your next office dayLINK
Microsoft is launching an AI-powered app named Microsoft Places to help coordinate in-office presence for hybrid work environments, aiming to improve collaboration by showing when employees and co-workers plan to be in the office.
The app will allow users to share their office presence schedule, integrate with Outlook for event planning, and later on offer integration with Microsoft Copilot for AI-driven scheduling recommendations.
Microsoft Places will also introduce features to book meeting rooms or desks easily within Outlook, provide location data within Microsoft Teams to see which colleagues are in the office, and offer analytics on office space usage to facilities management.
⚖️ Booking.com designated as EU gatekeeper, faces new regulationsLINK
Booking.com has been designated a gatekeeper under the EU's Digital Markets Act, facing regulations aimed at ensuring market fairness and the possibility of significant fines for non-compliance.
The platform has six months to comply with DMA requirements, such as fair terms for business users and a ban on self-preferencing, with some rules taking immediate effect.
This designation makes Booking.com the seventh gatekeeper, joining major tech companies like Alphabet and Apple, and aims to increase choice for holidaymakers and business opportunities for hotels.
🔍 Wikipedia's new Chrome extension fact-checks the web with ChatGPTLINK
The Wikimedia Foundation has developed an experimental Chrome extension named "Citation Needed" that utilizes ChatGPT and Wikipedia to check the veracity of online content.
By integrating ChatGPT, the extension cross-references user-selected text with Wikipedia entries and citations, offering feedback on the accuracy and reliability of the information.
This initiative aims to gauge public interest in factual verification using Wikipedia, explore Wikipedia's credibility as a source, and assess the potential of AI in enhancing content verification processes.
☀️ Solar storms impact GPS accuracy on farms during crucial timesLINK
Solar storms have disrupted GPS satellites, affecting Midwest farmers' operations and halting planting during a critical time for corn crops.
The GPS disruptions led to inaccurate planting, as systems like Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) used for precision in farming were compromised.
These geomagnetic storms, the most severe in over two decades, have also caused concerns for future technology-dependent farming and spurred discussions on right-to-repair laws for farm equipment.
Other news you might like
Arm planning to launch AI chips next year amid huge global demand.LINK
UK completes world’s first flights for quantum navigation that could replace GPS.LINK
Amazon's self-driving robotaxi unit Zoox under investigation by US after 2 rear-end crashes.LINK
Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI.LINK
iOS 18 leak reveals audio transcription, summarization features for iPhone users.LINK
Intel-powered Aurora is now the fastest AI supercomputer in the world.LINK
Microsoft and Amazon to invest $5.6 billion into France as Macron courts tech giants.LINK
Squarespace to go private in $6.9 billion takeover.LINK
GameStop soars after flag bearer 'Roaring Kitty' resurfaces.LINK
Latest research and tools
Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader: a Windows Forms application in C# that allows users to download YouTube videos as MP3 files by entering a URL, with a progress bar showing download progress and a completion notification once the process is complete.LINK
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