Apple’s watchOS is getting a few AI-powered upgrades, the company revealed at its Apple Event 2024 on Monday. Most were revealed at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, but Apple shed a bit more light during its keynote this morning. The Translate app is coming to the latest version of watchOS, watchOS 11. […]
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Audible, Amazon’s audiobook business, on Monday announced that it’ll use AI trained on professional narrators’ voices to generate new audiobook recordings. A select, U.S.-based cohort of audiobook narrators will be invited to train AI on their voices starting this week, Audible said. The trained AI will be used to make recordings, and narrators will have
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Apple’s biggest event of the year has arrived, and with it, the iPhone 16 lineup and a slew of AI-related updates for iOS 18. Apple Intelligence was the star of the Apple event this year, like it was at WWDC in June, and Apple’s lineup of announcements echoed many of the anticipated hardware reveals, including
Will Siri finally become useful? That’s the promise Apple laid out today at its “Glowtime” event, where the company introduced its iPhone 16 lineup — its first new iPhones to ship with AI-powered functionality, courtesy of Apple Intelligence and, later, a partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. While consumers won’t get the full impact of the
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Visual search is coming to the iPhone, powered by Apple Intelligence, Apple’s suite of AI capabilities, the company announced at Monday’s Apple Event 2024. The Camera Control, the new button on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, can launch what Apple calls “visual intelligence” — basically a reverse image search combined with some text recognition.
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Apple’s biggest event of the year has arrived, and with it, the iPhone 16 lineup and a slew of AI-related updates for iOS 18. Apple Intelligence is expected to be the star of the Apple event this year, like it was at WWDC in June, despite the many anticipated hardware reveals like new Apple Watches,
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As ever, additional rumors have popped up in the days leading up to the event. Among the more interesting of recent vintage (all Apple Watch-related): The Apple Watch Series 10’s blood pressure monitoring is not coming to the Watch Ultra 2, and there are limited Apple Intelligence features for the Watch, though it will be
finally, an SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup, has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured a $150 million credit line, TechCrunch is the first to report. The financing comes just seven months after the fintech company announced it had raised $10 million in funding, and brings Miami-based finally’s total
Elon Musk has denied a report that one of his companies, Tesla, has discussed sharing revenue with another of his companies, xAI, so that it can use the startup’s AI models. The Wall Street Journal wrote yesterday that under a proposed agreement described to investors, Tesla would use xAI models in its driver-assistance software (known
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Update 9/8: As ever, additional rumors have popped up in the days leading up to the event. Among the more interesting of recent vintage (all Apple Watch related): The Apple Watch Series 10’s blood pressure monitoring is not coming to the Watch Ultra 2, limited Apple Intelligence features for the Watch, though it will be
