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Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI
On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]
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Is Slack Down? Thousands of Users Report Mass Outage: ‘Investigation Is Still in Progress’
Slack acknowledged the outage and said it is investigating the issue.
ElevenLabs is launching its own speech-to-text model
ElevenLabs, an AI startup that just raised a $180 million mega funding round, has been primarily known for its audio generation prowess. The company took a step in another technological direction by launching its first standalone speech-to-text model called Scribe. The startup, valued at $3.3 billion, has aided many other companies in providing speech-to-text services […]
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McDonald’s Executive Says the Company Won’t Raise Prices on the Egg McMuffin, ‘Unlike Others Making News Recently’
McDonald’s chief impact officer for North America posted on LinkedIn that the company “definitely won’t” be “issuing surcharges on eggs.”
Pixel Watch 3 is getting ‘Loss of Pulse Detection’ in the US in March
Google announced on Wednesday that it has received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3’s “Loss of Pulse Detection” feature and will be launching it in the U.S. at the end of March. The feature can detect when a user’s heart stops beating due to an event like primary cardiac arrest, respiratory or circulatory failure, […]
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Hinge launches a new feature for daters to privately share details with matches
Dating app Hinge launched a new feature called “Match Note” on Wednesday, allowing users to privately share information with matches that they haven’t shared publicly on their profile. Users can add a Match Note by going to their profile, similar to how they can add a text prompt. The note is always visible to new […]
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Alexa+ can read, summarize and recall lengthy documents
At Amazon’s annual Devices & Services event on Wednesday, the company introduced Alexa+, an enhanced version of its voice assistant, now powered by generative AI. During the demonstration, Amazon showcased how users can share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to recall important details and answer questions about those documents. Mara Segal, director of Alexa, provided […]
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Alexa+ can do your grocery shopping, too
Amazon is not giving up on making its Alexa a virtual shopping assistant, On Wednesday, the company announced that Alexa+, its revamped Alexa experience, will be able to help consumers grocery shop from home using more natural conversations and requests. The feature will work with Amazon Fresh or any other grocery partner working with Amazon, […]
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Alexa+ costs $19.99, free for Amazon Prime members
Amazon’s new and improved Alexa experience, Alexa+, starts at $19.99, or free for Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon says that it will roll out in early access beginning next month in the U.S., and then will come to a wider group of users in waves over the subsequent months. Alexa+ will come first to Echo Show […]
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