Author: Zach_Wilson
Grok gets glasses to see what you’re talking about
X (formerly Twitter) Premium subscribers can now ask the Grok AI assistant to describe images, not just make them. The Elon Musk-owned company xAI unveiled a new feature for visual content analysis, giving it the ability to describe photos, diagrams, and other snapshots using the Grok-2 AI model which powers…
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China Mobile unveils 6G baseband prototype system for Sub7GHz frequency band — advanced capabilities should set the stage for future wireless communication technologies
Having helped pioneered the global rollout of 5G networks with extensive infrastructure investments and technological breakthroughs that enabled the rapid deployment of high-speed, low-latency mobile services, China is now setting its sights on 6G. China Mobile, in collaboration with Zhongguancun Pan-Institute of Information and Communications Technology, China Information Technology Mobile,…
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Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users
Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third-quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase year over year. The company hasn’t been profitable at any point in…
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More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it’s using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too. “More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers,” CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company’s third…
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Google’s AI Overviews are now available to help a billion people avoid reading full articles
Google is bringing its AI Overviews feature to more than 100 countries around the world, a massive expansion after initially becoming available just in the U.S. and later a half dozen other countries. AI Overviews, which employ Google’s Gemini AI models to summarize answers to search queries, will now be…
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Google Chrome cookie encryption system can be easily bypassed, experts warn
The cookie encryption system that Google introduced to the Chrome browser a few months ago can easily be bypassed, experts have warned. In fact, a security researcher has recently published a new tool that does just that. In July 2024, Google released Chrome 127, a new version of the Chrome…
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