I said back in November that I’d buy an iPhone 16 Pro Max if that’s what is needed to get the best possible Apple AI experience on the iPhone. Rumors from Korea said at the time that Siri would get a big upgrade in iOS 18. Siri is expected to become the “ultimate virtual assistant”…
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When it comes to controlling the HVAC systems in my home, I needed a smart thermostat with Alexa. That’s part of the reason I got a Nest Learning Thermostat. I absolutely love it, but there are so many more smart thermostat options these days than there were when I bought my Nest.The Nest Learning Thermostat…
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Google Maps can be a really useful tool. But, if you want to take things up a notch, then a free web-based AI Google Maps tool could help make things even more useful. That’s because this tool allows you to search for new restaurants and other spots much more easily.The tool is called Top-Rated.online, and…
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Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major…
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OpenAI’s GPT-4o ChatGPT upgrade, announced earlier this week, was an amazing display of power. The company dropped a big AI live demo ahead of Google’s I/O 2024, where Google would talk only about Gemini AI innovations for its ecosystem of apps and services.After watching both events, I thought GPT-4o won the AI assistant battle. OpenAI…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has seen a rebound in its year-over-year revenue growth rate, which the firm is attributing to enterprises completing their post-pandemic cloud cost optimisation efforts. The company’s first quarter results, which cover the three months to 31 March 2024, saw the public cloud giant report a 17% year-on-year uptick in revenue to $25bn,…
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Sam Altman teased ChatGPT’s GPT-4o update as something that “felt like magic” to him. He also said that people would love this ChatGPT upgrade, and I think he was correct on both counts. Seeing ChatGPT hold a voice conversation with humans while looking at images was just mind-blowing. Add the human-like speech that ChatGPT now…
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Move over Google Assistant; Google has a brand new personal AI assistant that it’s much cooler and more useful than anything it did before. It’s called Project Astra, and it’s powered by Google’s Gemini AI.Project Astra is an agent-type AI product that uses Gemini’s multimodality to answer real-time questions about the world around you. It…
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During Google’s I/O 2024 conference, the tech giant announced several new Gemini AI features coming to Gmail, Search, Shopping, and more. Here they are.To begin the conference, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the new Gemini 1.5 Pro now has a 2 million token context window, which is the amount of information the AI model…
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Google debuted its three newest generative AI models for media creation, Imagen3, Music AI Sandbox, and Veo, during Google I/O 2024.The tech giant says that the three newest AI tools are its best yet, offering even higher quality offerings compared to previous models. This is especially true for its new image creation tool, which Google…
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