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• Google turbocharges its genAI engine with Gemini 1.5

  15-02-2024 21:41
  
  Only a week after releasing its latest generative artificial intelligence (genAI) model, Google on Thursday unveiled that model’s successor, Gemini 1.5. The company boasts that the new version bests the earlier version on almost every front.Gemini 1.5 is a multimodal AI model now ready for early testing. Unlike OpenAI's popular ChatGPT, Google said, users can feed into its query engine a much larger amount of information to get more accurate responses.To read this article i
  
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• Microsoft and Google invest in AI in Europe

  15-02-2024 19:58
  
  Google parent company Alphabet and Microsoft have both announced huge investments in artificial intelligence in Western Europe this week, likely to get ahead of proposed European Union AI regulations likely to be introduced in April.A new Google AI hub in Paris will eventually host more than 300 Google researchers and engineers, including members of the Chrome and YouTube development teams, according to the French Finance Ministry.The goal of the new AI hub is to accelerate the development of A
  
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• Apple's Vision Pro and the coming healthcare revolution

  15-02-2024 17:27
  
  Once upon a time, a young doctor joined the surgical unit at a prestigious hospital as an anaesthesiologist. He was an Apple user, of course, wearing Vision Pro during surgical procedures, as it allowed him to monitor all the vital signs during operations.This is not a fairy story. It is a prediction based on the known direction of travel. After all, the device can already be used to display patient medical records in one expansive view….We saw with Google Glass that one of the few succe
  
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• ChatGPT will remember what you did last summer

  15-02-2024 13:15
  
  OpenAI is testing a memory feature in ChatGPT, which will allow it to remember information about the user and past conversations, the company announced in a blog post. The company has rolled out the feature for a few free users and paid Plus plan users this week.“As you chat with ChatGPT, you can ask it to remember something specific or let it pick up details itself. ChatGPT’s memory will get better the more you use it and you’ll start to notice the improvements over time,&rdq
  
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• Unlock your Android phone's physical gesture magic

  15-02-2024 12:00
  
  When we talk about Android gestures, we're typically talking about the on-screen variety — y'know, the assorted swipes, swirls, and swivels that help you fly around your phone faster than a flamingo on ice skates.Here's a little-known secret, though: You can also control your Android device and make it do all sorts of useful stuff by shaking it, flipping it, or even throwing it across the room. (For full disclosure, the throwing part is mostly just if you want to break the thing. But the
  
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• How to use Google’s genAI-powered note-taking app

  15-02-2024 12:00
  
  Among the experimental tools that Google offers is NotebookLM, a bare-bones notes app that you use in your web browser. What makes it interesting is that it uses Google’s generative AI chatbot (variously known as Bard or Duet AI and now rebranded as Gemini) to analyze sources of text that you “feed” it, and then generate notes based on the information in them.Here are some scenarios where you might want to use NotebookLM:
  To turn the contents of a long document into a brief su
  
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• JPMorgan sued by chief executive of fintech it co-owns - Financial Times

  15-02-2024 06:01 via news.google.com
  
  JPMorgan sued by chief executive of fintech it co-owns  Financial Times
  
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