The next next thing in AI and AR Image: Alex Parkin / The VergeMeta is apparently deprioritizing VR and its Oculus business to focus on reproducing the surprising success of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. And it makes sense — VR is out, AI is in, and Meta’s smart glasses are the absolute standout gadget thus far for AI. But in the same week that Alex Heath reported this shake-…

Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month Amazon launched its new Alexa-enabled Echo Hub in February. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeLast year, David Limp, Amazon’s former senior vice president of devices and services, hinted at charging for a more capable version of Alexa — and now we have an idea of how much it might cost. A report from Reuters suggests that Amazon’s AI…

Google publishes its policy agenda for responsible progress in AI submitted by /u/anujtomar_17

Journalists Are Accusing This AI Chatbot of Stealing Their Work ‘Conversational search engine’ Perplexity has been accused of breaking copyrights and misrepresenting stolen work.

ColorOS 14 Gets AI Boost: Compatible OPPO & OnePlus Phones submitted by /u/majidde

Google Dials Back AI Overviews In Search Results, Study Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern A new study finds Google is reducing the frequency of, but lengthening, AI overviews in search results. The post Google Dials Back AI Overviews In Search Results, Study Finds appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Embracer Group believes AI will ‘empower’ game developers Image: Crystal DynamicsEmbracer Group, the gaming giant that has the rights to big franchises like The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider, detailed how it’s thinking about the use of artificial intelligence for game development in its latest annual report. The conglomerate, which recently split into three separate companies, has adopted a “Group …

A marathon, not a sprint: Apple’s AI push faces big challenges in China Apple Intelligence is Apple’s big play that aims to bring artificial intelligence across its devices but there was little talk on how it will bring this to China.

The best-funded generative AI startups in Europe have something in common: Big Tech experience Most of the top-funded generative AI companies in Europe were founded by entrepreneurs with experience at U.S. technology giants, according to Accel.

OpenAI competitor Anthropic announces its most powerful AI yet The company said Claude 3.5 Sonnet is faster than its previous leading model, Claude 3 Opus, and is the first model from Anthropic’s new Claude 3.5 family.

Best Options for AI Post Generators I would love some recommendations for AI tools to utilize for creating social media posts for some of my agency’s clients. Needs: caption generator, image generation/suggestions Nice to haves: smart linking/tagging One thing to note is that for one of these clients, we have an image guideline in place, so we are currently using templates for co…

Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, and now Claude 3.5 Sonnet. | Image: AnthropicThe AI arms race continues apace: Anthropic is launching its newest model, called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it says can equal or better OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Google’s Gemini across a wide variety of tasks. The new model is already available to Claude users on the web and on iOS, and An…

Inside the players and politics of the modern AI industry Image: The VergeWe’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I was traveling last week, so Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and our new senior AI reporter Kylie Robison are filling in for me, with a very different kind of episode about AI. We talk a lot about AI in a broad sense on Decoder — it comes up in basically every single interview I do t…

How should photographers embrace AI technology? Do you think AI will come to a stage where photo editing will be done in some clicks? Using AI to edit professional photos of models, wedding locations is going to be part of photo editing or maybe already is. How are photographers thinking about this in the next 2 years? What are the pros and cons here? Will you reduce your charges if it saves you time? submitted by /u/Filmblogger1810

AI Tokens Led by FET, AGIX Surge as Nvidia Zooms to Become World’s Most Valuable Company The AI-linked token sector has risen 14% in the past 24 hours, data shows, outperforming other sectors.

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces his new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the company in May, announced his new startup, which he’s calling Safe Superintelligence, or SSI.

Snapchat AI turns prompts into new lens Image: SnapchatSnapchat offered an early look at its upcoming on-device AI model capable of transforming a user’s surroundings with augmented reality (AR). The new model will eventually let creators turn a text prompt into a custom lens — potentially opening the door for some wild looks to try on and send to friends. You can see how this might l…

OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeIlya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist, is starting a new AI company focused on safety. In a post on Wednesday, Sutskever revealed Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a startup with “one goal and one product:” creating a safe and powerful AI system. The announcement describes SSI as a…

McDonald’s Ends Experiment With Hilariously Bad AI Drive-Thrus McDonald’s will ditch AI drive thrus completely next month after the artificial intelligence experience left a lot to be desired for both customers and company. Read more…

The Impact Of AI And Other Innovations On Data Storytelling via @sejournal, @InsightNarrator Discover the impact of AI on data storytelling and its implications for business decision-making. Explore the future of storytelling in the digital age. The post The Impact Of AI And Other Innovations On Data Storytelling appeared first on Search Engine Journal.