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• Samsung Reveals ‘Galaxy Glasses’: AI-Powered Smart Specs Coming Soon

  06-03-2026 21:50 via eweek.com
  Samsung is stepping into the fast-growing AI smart-glasses race with its upcoming “Galaxy Glasses,” a camera-equipped wearable designed to challenge Meta, Apple, Google, and a wave of emerging competitors.At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company confirmed its first AI smart glasses will arrive later this year.Jay Kim, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile division, said the glasses feature a single eye-level camera and a tight tether to the wearer’s smart
  
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• Anthropic Launches AI ‘Job Disruption’ Tracker to Monitor Automation Risk

  06-03-2026 21:41 via eweek.com
  The artificial intelligence boom has raised a pressing question: Will machines take people’s jobs? Now, AI company Anthropic says it has built a new system designed to detect early warning signs of that disruption.In a new research paper, the company introduced a framework to track how AI might affect employment over time. The system focuses on measuring how exposed different occupations are to automation by large language models, such as its AI assistant Claude.Which jobs have the hi
  
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• ChatGPT Comes to Excel as OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.4-Powered Spreadsheet Tools

  06-03-2026 21:28 via eweek.com
  OpenAI announced Thursday the beta launch of ChatGPT for Excel, an add-in that embeds the company’s latest AI model directly into workbooks, allowing users to build, update, and analyze spreadsheet models using plain language rather than writing formulas manually.According to the company, the tool can help users build new spreadsheet models, update existing ones, and run scenario analysis directly within the workbook. Analysts can describe what they want in plain language, and the AI can a
  
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• Best Grok Image Prompts in 2026: 7 Creative Ideas to Try Right Now

  06-03-2026 20:18 via eweek.com
  We have moved far beyond the days of “dog wearing sunglasses” or “cyberpunk city” when it comes to AI image generators.In 2026, Grok Imagine, now leaner and far more intuitive, craves context and texture rather than just a string of keywords. While earlier AI models needed you to act like a computer programmer to get a decent result, today’s best prompts read like a page from a high-end travel magazine or a cinematic script. The trick isn’t just telling t
  
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• Meta Builds New AI ‘Data Engine’ Teams to Train Smarter Models

  06-03-2026 19:31 via eweek.com
  Meta is creating a new AI engineering organization as the company expands its efforts to develop more advanced artificial intelligence systems. The new group will focus on building the engineering infrastructure that supports Meta’s training, evaluation, and improvement of its AI models. The team will work alongside Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s research division responsible for developing Meta’s latest frontier AI models. According to an internal memo, the or
  
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• Elon Musk: Tesla Could Build AGI Through Its Optimus Robot

  06-03-2026 19:26 via eweek.com
  Could Elon Musk be betting Tesla’s future on artificial general intelligence? Well, that’s what his recent claim suggests.On March 4, the Tesla CEO announced in an X post that “Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form,” a reference to Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot program. Statements like this seem to position Tesla as a serious contender in the most consequential AI race of the century.A b
  
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• UK Lords Demand AI Limits to Protect Creative Jobs

  06-03-2026 19:09 via eweek.com
  A House of Lords committee is urging the UK government to impose stricter limits on how AI companies use copyrighted material, arguing that the country should not trade away its creative industries for uncertain AI gains.
  The warning comes from a new report that puts copyright, transparency, and licensing at the center of the UK’s AI debate, as pressure grows on governments to decide how generative AI should be trained on books, music, journalism, and other creative work.
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• Google Gemini Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide

  06-03-2026 18:57 via eweek.com
  Google Gemini is Google’s suite of generative AI features that power conversations, writing, research, and creative tools across Google’s apps and devices.Introduced as a model family in late 2023 and rolled out to consumers in 2024, Gemini has steadily expanded from a standalone chatbot into Android, Google Workspace, Chrome, Search, and smart‑home experiences.What does Google Gemini do?Google Gemini is an umbrella term for a wide range of generative AI capabilities available
  
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• Meta Opens WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots in Europe — but Only for a Limited Time

  06-03-2026 15:33 via eweek.com
  Meta is opening the door, at least temporarily, to rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe. The company said it will allow competing AI assistants to access its messaging platform via the WhatsApp Business API for the next 12 months. This move aims to ease the mounting pressure from European antitrust regulators. The policy change follows complaints from AI companies that Meta blocked their chatbots while prompting its Meta AI assistant on WhatsApp. By allowing third-party bots back on
  
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• Microsoft Alert: 900K Chrome AI Extensions Are Spying on ChatGPT Conversations

  06-03-2026 15:13 via eweek.com
  A new investigation has revealed that some browser extensions posing as helpful AI assistants are quietly collecting users’ conversations with large language models.Researchers from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team say malicious browser extensions designed to appear as legitimate AI assistant tools have collected significant amounts of user data from interactions with popular AI platforms.According to the company’s security blog, the campaign has already reached around 9
  
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