Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Amazon launched a new AI-powered feature on Tuesday that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses generated in real time. The responses are delivered by what the company calls “AI-powered shopping experts,” which present information in a natural, discussion-style format. The new “Join the chat” feature aims to save customers […]
Sparse AI Hardware Slashes Energy and Latency
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a staggering 2 trillion parameters that define the model. As models grow in size, […]
Rupee weakens, bond yields harden tracking rise in crude oil prices | Finance News
The rupee weakened and government bond yields hardened on Tuesday, tracking the rise in crude oil prices, said dealers. The rupee depreciated by 0.38 per cent to settle at 94.55 per dollar, against the previous close of 94.19 per dollar. Market participants said that state-owned banks bought dollars, likely on behalf of […]
Can cops use digital dragnets to track you?
A years-old bank heist may soon have major privacy implications for every American who owns a cellphone. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case involving police’s use of controversial “geofence warrants” to find and arrest Okello Chatrie, the suspect of a 2019 bank robbery outside Richmond, Virginia. At […]
Poem: Danica Radovanović’s “Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
It started with word, cave, and storytelling,A line scratched on stone walls:“Meet me when the young moon rises.”The first protocol for connection. Coyote tales, forbidden scripts,Medieval texts hidden from flame.What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics II?Was it God who laughed last, or we who made God laugh? Letters carried by doves, telepathic waves.Then Nikola Tesla […]
The resurrected Commodore 64 is getting a facelift like the original
The creators of the C64 Ultimate, a recreation of the iconic ‘80s personal computer that uses an FPGA chip to accurately replicate the original, have announced a follow-up version that continues in its predecessor’s footsteps. The original Commodore 64 first debuted in 1982 and was followed by the Commodore 64C in 1986, which was functionally […]
Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says
Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted with government spyware. In particular, WhatsApp pointed the finger at the Israeli-American surveillance tech maker Paragon Solutions as the company that provided the technology for a hacking campaign that targeted around 90 people around the world […]
OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS
OpenAI GPT models, Codex, and Managed Agents are now available on AWS, enabling enterprises to build secure AI in their AWS environments. Source link
Apple TV’s new horror series is scarier because it’s also hilarious
Kate O’Flynn views comedy and horror as “kind of the same thing.” Both are at their best when they surprise — a laugh or a scare that comes out of nowhere hits the hardest. That’s why, for the star of the new horror-comedy hybrid Widow’s Bay, mixing up the genres makes perfect sense — they […]
Rupee falls 0.4% to 94.19, near one-month low as oil tops $110/barrel | Markets News
The Indian rupee weakened to a near one-month low on Tuesday, pressed by a stubborn rise in oil prices and sustained hedging by local importers against further weakness, underscoring anxiety over the currency’s outlook as it nears the 95 per dollar mark. The rupee touched a low of 94.54 per dollar during […]