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Welcome to the week as a review! We have a ton of stories for you this week, including a new navigator powered by AI d’Arc; Not one but two hacks; Summary of Gemini emails; And much more. Have a great weekend!
Attention, Google: Search engine powered by AI Perplexity released perplexity laboratoriesWho gives Pro subscribers a tool that can develop relationships, calculation sheets, dashboards, etc. Perplexity Labs can carry out research and analyzes using tools such as web research, code execution and the creation of graphics and images to create reports and visualizations. All in about 10 minutes. We did not have the chance to test it and know the gaps of the AI, I am sure that everything will not come out perfectly. But it certainly seems quite awesome.
Luckey’s luck: The quarrel between the founder of Oculus Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg seems to be finished: the pair announced a Collaboration between Facebook and Luckey Andundil To build extensive reality devices (XR) for the American army. The family of products they build is called Eagleeye, which will be an ecosystem of devices.
Not great: We do not definitely know if AI begins to take care of the roles previously carried out by humans. But a recent survey of the World Economic Forum revealed that 40% of employers Plan to cut staff where AI can automate the tasks. It can’t be good.
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Everyone has a browser: The browser company said this week that it was planning to sell or open the supply of its browser, the Arc navigator, for Focus on a new browser powered by AI called Dia. And it’s not the only one! The opera also said that it was building a new AI navigatorAnd Perplexity teased his browserComet, a few months ago.
Finally: Ipad users, rejoice! You can now talk to all your international friends with the New version specific to WhatsApp’s iPad. Meta says that users will be able to take advantage of iPados multitasking features, such as the stage manager, the vision of fractionation and the slide.
Oh, great: Lexisnexisis Risk Solutions, a data broker that uses personal information to help companies identify risks and fraud, reported a security violation affecting more than 364,000 people. A spokesperson for Lexisnexis told us that an unknown hacker had accessed the company’s Github account, and stolen data include names, birth dates, telephone numbers, postal addresses and email, social security numbers and driving license numbers.
And another: Pirates would have accessed the personal phone From the Chief of the White House Susie Wiles, obtaining the contact details used to identify it and contact other senior officials. It seems that AI was used to pretending to be his voice.
Can it cook my meals? Gmail users no longer have to press an option to summarize an e-mail with AI. AI will now be automatically summarize content If necessary, without requiring user interaction. This means that you should withdraw if you don’t want Gemini to sum up your belongings.
Billions with a B: General Catalyst A Invested $ 1 billion in grammarThe 16 -year -old writing assistant startup. Grammarly will use new funds for its sales and marketing efforts, releasing existing capital to make strategic acquisitions.
In the heights: Tinder tests a new feature that Allow people to add a “height preference” in their search for love. It is not a hard filter, says Tinder, because it will not block or exclude profiles, but does not inform the recommendations.
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10 years in preparation: Carma Technology, who was trained in 2007 by the founder of Sosv Ventures Sean O’Sullivan, has put legal action earlier this year against Uberalleging that society has violated five of its patents. The trial is quite new, but the allegations go back almost a decade.
