A week after Apple admitted that its revamped Siri with onscreen awareness and context understanding would be delayed with a release in the “coming year,” Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that Apple’s senior director at Siri’s division, Robby Walker, had an all-hands meeting with his team, and said that delaying these key features has been “ugly”…
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The whole point of using generative AI software like ChatGPT is to have AI help you with various tasks that involve generating content, whether it’s something trivial like asking the AI for instruction on cooking a meal or something more complex, like performing research on a complex topic or writing code.Most AI models and agents…
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Nearly a decade after Google Assistant arrived, the software is being sunset as Gemini AI takes its place. On Friday, Google announced that before the end of 2025, Gemini will replace Google Assistant on most mobile devices. According to 9to5Google, the only exceptions will be devices running Android 9 or earlier with less than 2GB…
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Amazon is killing a feature that lets users of some Echo devices stop Alexa from sending voice recordings to the cloud. As shared on Reddit, Amazon sent out emails to users of affected Echo smart speakers to let them know that the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” feature will no longer be available starting on…
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An emergent ransomware gang that has been exploiting two vulnerabilities in Fortinet firewall appliances may have links to current or former members of the notorious LockBit operation, according to intelligence published this week by Forescout Research’s Vedere Labs unit. Forescout is attributing SuperBlack to a threat actor tracked as Mora_001, which exhibits a distinct operational…
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AI has been developing at an accelerated rate over the past year and a half. We’ve seen major leaps in the advanced capabilities of services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and advancements in Google’s Gemini AI. But now, one AI voice model outdoes them all. Meet Sesame, a new AI voice model designed around delivering “voice presence”…
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While rumors suggest Apple might introduce its thinnest iPhone to date, the new iPhone 17 Air, later this year, the company might also be readying for the same launch its thickest Pro Max model ever made.According to Chinese leaker Ice Universe (via MacRumors), Apple plans to increase the thickness of the iPhone from 8.25mm to…
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As a longtime user of most of Apple’s products, I have to say that I’ve been less impressed with the company’s recent updates. Yes, each new iteration of an iPhone or MacBook obviously refines and improves upon the last. But lately, it seems like Apple is focused mainly on trying to catch up in the…
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US lawmakers have hit out at the Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK orders requiring them to hand over their users’ data. In an unprecedented intervention, five lawmakers from both sides of the US political divide, led by senator…
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Almost a third of shoppers in the UK have said that personalisation assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) increases their loyalty to brands, according to research from Bazaarvoice. The content generation platform’s Shopper experience index report found that 31% of shoppers in the UK believe AI-driven loyalty rewards increase their brand loyalty, and 28% claimed tailored…
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