Mansidak Singh, a founding product engineer at re-collect AI, created a new AI helper called Silvia, which understands 'Spanglish' and other language combinations. The app was developed over the last month, inspired by Singh's conversation with an Argentinian girl who mentioned how her iPhone struggles with mixed languages. Silvia is not a funded startup, but rather a personal project.
2024-08-08 07:16:22 AM |
YouTube is testing a feature called Brainstorm with Gemini, which integrates with Google Gemini to help creators brainstorm video ideas, titles, and thumbnails. The feature is available to select creators as part of a small experiment, and YouTube will consider feedback before deciding whether to roll it out more broadly.
2024-08-07 10:16:07 PM |
Kenneth Stanley, co-founder of Maven, a social media platform, is stepping down after three months of its public launch. The platform, designed for serendipitous interactions, failed to achieve the desired growth curve, leading to a decision to pursue other opportunities. Maven has a few months' worth of runway left, according to its chief technology officer, Jimmy Secretan.
2024-08-07 06:56:12 PM |
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman left the company to join rival Anthropic, citing a desire to focus on AI alignment and technical work. This departure comes as OpenAI president Greg Brockman takes an extended leave through the end of the year. Schulman played a key role in developing ChatGPT, OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot platform.
2024-08-07 05:06:20 PM |
A study by Upwork surveyed 2,500 executives, full-time employees, and freelancers across the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, finding that 96% of C-suite executives expect AI to increase productivity, while 77% of workers believe it has decreased their productivity and added to their workload.
2024-08-07 04:06:16 PM |
Audible, owned by Amazon, is testing an AI-powered search feature called Maven, which uses natural language to provide personalized audiobook recommendations. The feature is available on the web, iOS, and Android devices, and around half of Audible's U.S. customers will have access to it. Maven can respond to queries such as 'I'm looking for an uplifting fiction novel with a female protagonist' and provide tailored suggestions from Audible's catalog of nearly one million titles.
2024-08-07 01:06:08 PM |
Google announced that Google Assistant will continue to be available on the Home/Nest side of its ecosystem, following a year-long uncertainty about its fate. The company will showcase its latest developments at the upcoming Made by Google 2024 event. Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa saw a surge in popularity during the pandemic, but their growth has slowed down in recent years.
2024-08-06 08:26:17 PM |
Google is set to announce its latest flagship, the Pixel 9, on August 13 at 10 a.m. PT, ahead of the iPhone 16's September announcement. The event will also focus on the new foldable device, Gemini, which is expected to debut key new generative AI features.
2024-08-06 06:06:19 PM |
Apple released the iOS 18.1 developer beta, featuring Apple Intelligence's Writing Tools, which allows users to reformat or rewrite text using AI models. The tool warns users that AI-generated suggestions may not be of high quality when tackling certain topics, including swear words. When rewriting text with swear words, the tool displays a warning saying it was not designed to handle this type of content.
2024-08-06 04:06:21 PM |
Google has announced the launch of the Nest Learning Thermostat 4, 13 years after the release of the original. The device was first released in 2007, and the new version is expected to usher in a new era for Google's smart home play. The company had slowed down on the Nest line in recent years, but is now revamping the product with the help of its generative AI model, Gemini.
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