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OpenAI to Establish New Tokyo Office, Tesla’s Workforce Reduction Impacts Thousands of Employees

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Kira Kim
April 15, 2024

Apps, Media & Entertainment

Auto-Transcripts Now Available for Apple Podcasts on iOS 17.4

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Among the changes in iOS 17.4 is support for auto-generated transcripts in the Apple Podcasts app, making it easier for listeners to follow along to their favorite shows. Similar to how lyrics work in Apple Music, users can view a live text version of an episode, and the words are highlighted as they listen. To pull up the transcript, users click on the new “quote” icon at the bottom of the Now Playing screen. Creators can also release their own transcripts by changing the setting in Apple Podcasts Connect within the Availability tab. Earlier this week, Apple made iOS 17.3 widely available, giving users access to its Stolen Device Protection feature and collaborative playlists for Apple Music.

Dylan Williams
January 26, 2024

Robotics & AI

“Nabla Secures Additional $24M Funding for Revolutionary AI Tool Supporting Physicians”

Nabla has been working on an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff. Nabla then uses a large language model refined with medical data and health-related conversations to identify the important data points in the consultation — medical vitals, drug names, pathologies, etc. The company uses a combination of an off-the-shelf speech-to-text API from Microsoft Azure and its own speech-to-text model (a refined model based on the open-source Whisper model). Once the LLM has processed the transcript, Nabla de-pseudonymizes the output. However, doctors can give their approval and ask for the patient consent to share medical notes with Nabla so that they can be used to correct transcription errors.