Author: Zach_Wilson
Oracle is shutting down its advertising business despite millions in revenues
Oracle has announced the closure of its advertising business, marking an end to its ambitious efforts in the online advertising market. The decision, revealed on its most recent Q4 earnings call, follows a steady decline in revenue, which dropped to $300 million for the 2024 financial years, according to Oracle…
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Reduce AI Hallucinations With This Neat Software Trick
A buzzy process called retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, is taking hold in Silicon Valley and improving the outputs from large language models. How does it work? Source
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The much-needed reinvention of the voice assistant is almost here
Voice assistants hold so much promise, but in the decade-plus since Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa first wormed their ways into our lives, their most compelling use is still setting timers. Competition from Google’s Assistant (and if we’re being charitable, Samsung’s Bixby) failed to light the spark of innovation in…
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The Morning After: Microsoft pauses its creepy Recall AI feature
Microsoft has belatedly cottoned on to the whole “using AI to watch someone’s screen might be a bit creepy” thing. It has announced it will limit the launch of Recall, which was due to arrive alongside the first batch of Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs on June 18. Instead, it will…
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The Samsung Galaxy S25’s battery might not impress – or overly disappoint
Samsung seems reluctant to increase the battery capacity of its standard flagships above 4,000mAh. It reached that capacity with the Samsung Galaxy S20 before reducing it for the Galaxy S22 and S23, and then returning to 4,000mAh with the Samsung Galaxy S24 – and we might get that same 4,000mAh…
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Picsart teams up with Getty to take on Adobe’s ‘commercially-safe’ AI
Image and video-editing platform Picsart has teamed up with Getty Images to launch a “responsible, commercially-safe” AI image generator that’s trained exclusively on the stock image platform’s licensed content. Picsart says its AI lab is building a custom model from scratch that will power the tool, allowing the platform’s paid…
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