Topic: tech event
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Codi's AI Agent Transforms Office Management
Codi has launched the first fully automated AI platform for office management, which evolved from its initial marketplace model for flexible workspaces and is backed by $23 million in funding, including a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The platform automates day-to-day operational tas...
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Meta CTO Reveals Real Reason Smart Glasses Demos Failed (Not Wi-Fi)
Meta's smart glasses demos at the Connect conference experienced technical glitches, initially mistaken for Wi-Fi issues but later attributed to deeper system errors. A cooking demo failed due to a resource allocation error that overloaded the system, while a WhatsApp call glitch resulted from a ...
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Nvidia Shatters Sales Records Amid Surging AI Boom
Nvidia reported record-breaking quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, driven by a 56% surge in data center sales due to soaring AI infrastructure demand. The company's net income rose 59% to $26.4 billion, with the new Blackwell AI platform contributing significantly to data center revenue. Despite...
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Sarvam AI's Open-Source Models Bet Big on India's AI Future
Sarvam AI has launched a suite of powerful, open-source AI models, including large language models with up to 105 billion parameters, to challenge global giants and reduce India's reliance on foreign technology. A key innovation is the use of a mixture-of-experts architecture for efficiency, and ...
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Airbnb to Integrate AI for Smarter Search and Support
Airbnb is strategically integrating AI to transform its platform into an intelligent, conversational assistant for trip planning and property discovery, moving beyond traditional search filters. The company is carefully developing AI-driven features, including personalized search and expanded cus...
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EU Orders TikTok to Disable Addictive Features Like Infinite Scroll
The European Commission has accused TikTok of creating an addictive user experience under the Digital Services Act, citing features like infinite scroll and autoplay that harm minors and vulnerable adults. TikTok must alter its core interface to comply, including disabling infinite scroll and rev...
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Snap's Q4: Revenue Up, Users Down as Spectacles Prep for Mass Market
Snap's revenue grew 10% to $1.7 billion, driven by a surge in paid subscriptions, even as its daily active user base slightly declined in key markets. The company achieved a higher net income and average revenue per user, highlighting the success of its Snap+ subscription service as an alternativ...
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UpScrolled Surpasses 2.5M Users, Founder Reveals
UpScrolled has rapidly grown to over 2.5 million users, a surge its founder attributes to shifts in the social media landscape and competitor changes. The platform positions itself as an inclusive hybrid of Instagram and X, promising not to shadowban users while openly criticizing major tech gian...
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Microsoft CEO: Copilot AI Usage Is Soaring
Microsoft reported strong quarterly financial results, with revenue and net income growing significantly and Microsoft Cloud revenue exceeding $50 billion, yet investor caution led to a stock price decline due to concerns over massive AI infrastructure spending. The company is making staggering c...
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Microsoft to Keep Buying Nvidia, AMD AI Chips Despite In-House Designs
Microsoft has deployed its first custom AI accelerator, the Maia 200, designed as an "AI inference powerhouse" for running trained models, with performance reportedly surpassing rival chips. The company's strategy involves parallel innovation and partnership, as CEO Satya Nadella emphasized conti...
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Waymo Robotaxis Now Serve San Francisco International Airport
Waymo has launched a commercial service providing autonomous rides to and from San Francisco International Airport, a key expansion of its geographic reach and a highly requested feature. The launch occurs amid safety scrutiny, as federal agencies are investigating incidents involving Waymo vehic...
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Waymo Robotaxis Stalled in San Francisco Blackout: Here's Why
Waymo is updating its autonomous vehicle software to improve handling of widespread power outages after a San Francisco blackout caused significant delays due to an overwhelmed remote confirmation system. The update aims to make vehicles navigate more decisively at intersections with dark signals...
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Google's 'Disco' Crafts Web Apps from Browser Tabs Using Gemini AI
Google has introduced an experimental AI tool called Disco, featuring a **GenTabs** function that creates personalized web applications directly from a user's open browser tabs and research activity. The tool leverages the Gemini AI model to instantly generate interactive apps for tasks like plan...
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Apple to Pay Masimo $634M After Losing Patent Infringement Case
A federal jury ordered Apple to pay Masimo $634 million for patent infringement related to blood oxygen monitoring features in Apple Watch, which Apple plans to appeal. Masimo claims Apple incorporated its patented pulse oximetry technology by hiring key personnel, leading to an import ban on cer...
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ClickUp's New AI Assistant Takes on Slack and Notion
ClickUp 4.0 introduces a unified platform integrating calendar management, communication tools, document handling, and task tracking, alongside new AI assistant capabilities. The release features two AI agents: one that proactively answers questions using internal and external sources, and anothe...
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Figma Acquires Weavy to Supercharge AI Media Creation
Figma has acquired Weavy, an AI-driven image and video generation company, which will be rebranded as Figma Weave and integrated into Figma's ecosystem to enhance its AI media creation capabilities. Weavy's tools enable designers to generate and refine high-quality images and videos using various...
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YouTube TV App Upgrades: QR Code Shopping & AI Upscaling
YouTube has introduced QR code shopping and AI-powered video upscaling to its TV app, aiming to enhance its living room presence, where it holds 12.4% of TV watch time. The shoppable QR codes allow viewers to scan and purchase products directly from videos, boosting creator revenue as high-earnin...
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OpenAI to Launch 'Legitimate AI Researcher' by 2028, Says Sam Altman
OpenAI plans to launch an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026 and a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028, as announced by CEO Sam Altman during a corporate restructuring to a public benefit corporation. Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki indicated that deep learning systems could a...
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OpenAI's Atlas: ChatGPT's Power, Not the Web
OpenAI's Atlas browser aims to establish ChatGPT as the central hub for information retrieval, targeting its 800 million weekly users and challenging Google's dominance by making AI-generated responses the primary search method. The browser integrates ChatGPT deeply with features like a floating ...
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Pinterest Lets You Limit AI Content in Your Feed
Pinterest has introduced new user controls allowing individuals to limit AI-generated content in their feeds, addressing concerns over "AI slop" degrading the platform's experience. The platform is enhancing AI content labels and enabling users to reduce visibility of synthetic imagery in specifi...
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