First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant
To find out whether Alexa is still the best smart assistant for my family, I'm going to test Amazon's AI-powered devices, experiment with AI queries, and write out my thoughts in a multi-part series.
Read moreGoogle takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini
Google is also offering students in the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil a free one-year subscription to its AI Pro plan.
Read moreOpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free
GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Josh Gruenbaum in a statement encouraged “other American AI technology companies to follow OpenAI’s lead and work with us.”
Read moreGenesis Block Easter Egg
The White House put out a position paper Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology a few days ago. The last page of the paper contains a hex dump. Kinda surprising to see something like that coming out of the White House, but it makes sense in the context of
Read moreGoogle’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta
Google today launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta — just over two months after its public preview debut in May.
Read morePayment platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’
Lava is a digital wallet that lets merchants use credits to facilitate transactions.
Read moreKey sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.
Read moreTavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web
The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.
Read moreCitizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.
Read moreMaking the two-dimensional one-dimensional
We often want to reduce something that’s inherently two-dimensional into something one-dimensional. We want to turn graph into a list. And we’d like to do this with some kind of faithfulness. We’d like things that are close together in 2D space to be close together in their 1D representation, and
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