eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images

June 5, 2024

eBay’s newest AI feature allows sellers to replace image backgrounds with AI-generated backdrops. The tool is now available for iOS users in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. It’ll gradually roll out to Android users over the coming months. Following in Amazon’s and Google’s footsteps, the e-commerce company announced on Tuesday the launch of its new […]

Hoop uses AI to automatically manage your to-do list

June 5, 2024

If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried every to-do list app and productivity system, only to find yourself giving up sooner than later because sooner than later, managing your productivity system becomes another drain on your productivity. Hoop, a productivity startup founded by a group of early Trello employees, wants to use AI to help […]

Stay Focused at Work with These $110 Beats Fit Pro Earbuds

June 5, 2024

Lock in with a great deal on earbuds with spatial audio and active noise cancellation.

Asana introduces ‘AI teammates’ designed to work alongside human employees

June 5, 2024

Asana is using its work graph to train LLMs with the goal of creating AI assistants that work alongside human employees in company workflows.

Taloflow puts AI to work on software vendor selection to reduce cost and save time

June 5, 2024

Taloflow, an early stage startup changing the way companies evaluate and select software, has raised $1.3M in a seed round.

SiTration uses silicon wafers to reclaim critical minerals from mining waste

June 5, 2024

The startup is hoping its durable filters can make metals refining and battery recycling more efficient, too.

Dive goes cloud-native for its computational fluid dynamics simulation service

June 5, 2024

Spun out of Bosch, Dive wants to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by both using modern mathematical approaches and cloud computing.

Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A

June 5, 2024

After growing 500% year-over-year in the past year, Understory is now launching a product focused on the renewable energy sector.

The Download: more energy-efficient AI, and the problem with QWERTY keyboards

June 5, 2024

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a simple circuit could offer an alternative to energy-intensive GPUs On a table in his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, physicist Sam Dillavou has connected an array of breadboards via a…

Alphabet’s new CFO is Eli Lilly’s Anat Ashkenazi

June 5, 2024

Alphabet has announced who its new chief financial officer (CFO) will be, revealing today that it has hired pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company’s CFO Anat Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi will start her new role at Google’s parent company on July 31, 2024, according to an SEC filing today, after 23 years at Eli Lilly where she […]

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