Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada
Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify’s AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.
A natural protein may protect the GI tract from infection
Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has found that one such protein, intelectin-2, both helps fortify the mucosal barrier and offers broad-spectrum protection against harmful bacteria found in the GI tract. Intelectin-2 binds to a sugar…
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Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens’ screen time and friends
With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.
Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off
Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.
Tiger Global, Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO
Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.
Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kids
Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was […]
This HR Blind Spot Is Costing Results — Here’s How to Empower Managers to Fix It
If human resource personnel are serious about business impact, they should take these four steps to help frontline managers make better people decisions.
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable
Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.
Sources: project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes
SGLang, which originated as an open-source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.
Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI
The feature, now public, lets you create to-do’s and action items by speaking naturally to the app’s AI.
Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says
Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products.