Tag: computing
Amazon is investing billions in its favorite AI and it’s not Alexa – yet
Amazon just invested another $4B in Anthropic Most believe Claude will be Alexa AI’s brains Why isn’t Amazon sharing updates about its popular chatbot? Amazon Alexa’s 10-year anniversary passed without fanfare and, in particular, without the major AI update we were promised in 2023. Now, though, as Amazon invests over…
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YouTube’s new AI tool will create backgrounds for your videos – so you don’t have to clean up your place
YouTube has augmented its Dream Screen AI tools for short-form videos. You can now use Dream Screen to generate video backgrounds for Shorts using text prompts. Up to now, Dream Screen made image backgrounds, but now it leverages Google DeepMind’s video-generation model, Veo to expand into videos as well. To…
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Can’t uninstall or update your Microsoft Store apps? Weird Windows 10 bug has just been fixed, thankfully
Microsoft Store apps can’t be updated or uninstalled due to a bug Thankfully Microsoft has now fixed the problem related to WinAppSDK The cure is in a Windows 10 optional update, so you may want to wait Some Windows 10 users have been experiencing an odd bug with the operating…
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Samsung’s new Gauss 2 AI Model might be the next Galaxy brain
Samsung‘s AI ambitions have taken a big step forward as the company introduced the Gauss 2 AI model at this year’s Samsung Developer Conference. Gauss 2 builds upon its predecessor by offering improved performance and efficiency, with applications spanning smartphones, tablets, laptops, and home appliances. Your Samsung Galaxy S24 FE…
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Yes, Google is a near-monopoly, but selling off Chrome won’t make it better
Google‘s Chrome browser is dominant; not in the way Google’s search engine is, but at 67% market share, according to Stat Counter, it sits comfortably atop competitors like Safari, Edge, and Opera, who are mostly fighting over scraps. For the US Government, which is now calling for the breakup of…
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ChatGPT-4o just got a ‘creative writing’ boost for telling more engaging stories
ChatGPT-4o gets ‘creative writing’ update It can also deal better with uploaded files The update is only for ChatGPT Plus subscribers OpenAI has given ChatGPT-4o, the large language model (LLM) that’s available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, a stealthy ‘creative writing’ upgrade. In a brief tweet on X, OpenAI described the…
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