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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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Ex-PayPal COO David Sacks is Trump’s new crypto and AI ‘czar’

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Incoming President Donald Trump has a new crypto and AI “czar”: ex-PayPal COO David Sacks. Trump announced Sacks’ appointment Thursday in a post on Truth Social, Trump’s social networking platform. “[Sacks] will work on a legal framework so the Crypto [sic] industry has the clarity it has been asking for, and can thrive in the

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Elon Musk’s xAI lands billions in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

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xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Investors gave a minimum of $77,593, per the filing. 97 participated, but the document doesn’t reveal their identities. The new cash brings xAI’s total raised to $12 billion, adding to the $6 billion

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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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Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI tool that can read your screen, launches in preview

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Microsoft’s AI can now read your screen — or rather, the websites you’re browsing. On Thursday, the company began rolling out a limited, U.S.-only preview of Copilot Vision, a tool that can understand and respond to questions about sites you’re visiting using Microsoft Edge. Gated behind Copilot Labs, an opt-in program for experimental AI capabilities,

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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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Key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup

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Three members of Google’s NotebookLM team, including its team lead and designer, have announced they are leaving Google for a new stealth startup.  On Linkedin, ex-team lead Raiza Martin said she and her two other co-founders, designer Jason Spielman and engineer Stephen Hughes, “couldn’t shake the feeling that there’s a massive opportunity to build something

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LatAm startup Vambe sees ARR skyrocket after pivot to conversational AI

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When Nicolás Camhi, Matías Pérez Pefaur and Diego Chahuán (pictured above, left to right) launched Vambe last year, they were building a CRM for debt collection. But despite gaining traction, they soon realized that their customers were not as interested in their debt collection product as the WhatsApp AI agents Vambe had built to facilitate

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