After abandoning its Google Glass smart glasses in 2023, Google seems ready to take another kick at the can with what will reportedly be a $115 million acquisition of Canadian startup AdHawk Microsystems. AdHawk has developed camera-free, MEMS-based eye-tracking technology that offers an accurate, low-latency view of where the user is looking, using considerably less…
OpenAI on Tuesday launched Responses, a new api intended to eventually replace Assistants. The big draw? Responses provides a number of new tools that companies and organizations can use to create their own AI agents. The agents can, for example, be used to find relevant information among a company’s files or on the web, Techcrunch…
Quick: How many tabs do you have open in Chrome on your Android phone right now? If the answer is zero, you’re an animal. Seek immediate psychiatric help. If the answer is one to two, you’re obsessively organized and a model Android device owner. Go get yourself a cookie as a reward (browser-based or snickerdoodle…
Microsoft has ridden its multibillion-dollar investments in generative AI (genAI) to become the world’s second-most valuable company, with a valuation of roughly $3 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price. This year, it plans to invest $80 billion on data center costs alone, and that doesn’t count how much it’s spending to build its in-house AI team. At some…
It’s no big revelation that project management can be a chore. Enterprise teams need to be able to easily collaborate, track progress, and gain important insights from data, but they often don’t have a cohesive platform on which to do so, creating fragmentation, administrative burdens, and ultimately slowing project momentum. Zoho Corporation is aiming to…
Google is jazzing up videoconferencing and chat features in its Workspace suite with new generative AI (genAI) features, including image and background enhancements for Google Meet and built-in translation for Google Chat, the company said on its Workspace update page. The latest features rely on Google’s Gemini AI model, which the company is integrating into its…
Ever since OpenAI made ChatGPT available to the public in late 2022, the large language model (LLM)-based generative AI (genAI) revolution has advanced at an astonishing pace. Two years and four months ago, we had only ChatGPT. Now, we have GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.0 Pro, Llama 3.1, PaLM 2, Perplexity AI, Grok-3, DeepSeek R1, LLaMA-13B,…
Soon after the non-appearance of the most important Apple Intelligence feature, Apple now finds itself in danger of digging an even deeper hole by promising iOS 19 will be the most significant upgrade in years. The problem: it again runs the risk of promising too much and not delivering enough. It’s a dangerous approach. If the…
Companies creating generative AI (genAI) tools that can clone voices are not doing enough to prevent scammers from using them to defraud customers, according to a study from Consumer Reports. The study found that four of six companies providing the services didn’t construct enough barriers to prevent individuals’ voices from being fraudulently cloned. Consumer Reports tested voice cloning…
When it comes to its App Store business model, Apple is losing ground one nation at a time. While there is merit in many of its arguments, perhaps it really is time the company bit the bullet and focused on protecting what it can? The company’s latest setback comes from Brazil, where Apple has been…