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Google Photos launches a ‘2024 Recap’ for a look back at this year’s memories

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Spotify Wrapped isn’t the only service offering a year-end recap these days. In addition to the year-end reviews from other streamers and social apps, Google Photos is among the apps providing users with a look back at key moments throughout the past year. “2024 Recap,” as the feature is called, introduces a collection of memories, […]

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OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model

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OpenAI has launched a new subscription plan for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform — and it’s very, very expensive. Confirming leaks this morning, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pro, a new $200-per-month subscription tier that provides unlimited access to all of OpenAI’s models, including the full version of its o1 “reasoning” model. Unlike most AI, o1 and other reasoning models

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OpenAI’s 2024 event: Live updates for ChatGPT product reveals and demos

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OpenAI’s 12 days of reveals kick off OpenAI’s end-of-year event is about to begin. You can follow along with all of the announcements right here on our live blog or watch the livestream through OpenAI’s YouTube channel. The first stream begins today at 10 a.m. PT, with new streams starting over the next 12 weekdays.

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Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried

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Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability to “identify” emotions. Announced on Thursday, the PaliGemma 2 family of models can analyze images, enabling the AI to generate captions and answer questions about people it “sees” in photos. “PaliGemma 2 generates detailed, contextually relevant captions for images,” Google wrote in

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Women in AI: Tamar Eilam is helping IBM build sustainable computing

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To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Tamar Eilam has worked at IBM for the past 24 years. She’s currently an IBM fellow, serving as chief scientist for

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Ai Pin maker Humane demos AI software for cars, phones and smart speakers

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When Humane released its Ai Pin, the San Francisco-based gadget maker envisioned a world with dedicated AI devices — something that you would carry with you in addition to the smartphone in your pocket. However, reviews and sales haven’t been great — returns reportedly begun to outpace unit sales at one point. And Humane recently dropped

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OpenAI inks deal to upgrade Anduril’s anti-drone tech

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OpenAI plans to team up with Anduril, the defense startup, to supply its AI tech to systems the U.S. military uses to counter drone attacks. The Wall Street Journal reports that Anduril will incorporate OpenAI tech into software that assesses and tracks unmanned aircraft. Anduril tells the publication that OpenAI’s models could improve the accuracy

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