Not only is Apple rebranding AI to “Apple Intelligence” for its purposes, but it’s also integrating the new AI features in iOS 18 in a more practical way.
Image Credits: ApplePresented in this way, some of the new Apple Intelligence features don’t even feel like AI, they just feel like smarter tools.
If you want to make your writing more concise or summarize an email, Apple Intelligence can help.
Outside of a few features — like Genmoji, which is just silly — Apple Intelligence feels boring and practical.
Apple Intelligence will launch in beta this fall.
The investor’s latest “Camp” incubator trained up and funded 9 AI agent startups they hope will take on today’s more tedious tasks.
The use cases for many of these companies sound promising, but AI tends to have trouble keeping its promises.
But are AI agents at that stage?
And it’s well within the capabilities of today’s AI agents, which would primarily be tasked with understanding natural language rather than forms.
A framework for web-based AI agents with a pay-as-you-go model so if your company’s experiment craters, you only owe a few bucks.
Generative AI models like Midjourney’s are trained on an enormous number of examples — e.g.
Some vendors have taken a proactive approach, inking licensing agreements with content creators and establishing “opt-out” schemes for training data sets.
The problem with benchmarks: Many, many AI vendors claim their models have the competition met or beat by some objective metric.
Anthropic launches new models: AI startup Anthropic has launched a new family of models, Claude 3, that it claims rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4.
AI models have been helpful in our understanding and prediction of molecular dynamics, conformation, and other aspects of the nanoscopic world that may otherwise take expensive, complex methods to test.
Locus Robotics’ success is a tale of focusing on what works CEO Rick Faulk discusses the company’s new software, the state of the industry and the future of humanoids“We’re fundamentally a software company,” Locus CEO Rick Faulk says with a laugh.
We look like a robot company, but we’re actually a software company.”It’s a familiar refrain from companies whose most public-facing products are hardware.
That’s certainly the case with Locus, which produces the best-known AMRs (autonomous mobile robots) not made by Amazon.
Former executives from the robotics startup launched their own Locus competitor, 6 River Systems.
Asked whether Locus will be the company to bring that technology to the warehouse, Faulk responds, “We will.
Online interior design startup Havenly is acquiring artisan home decor startup The Citizenry, the company announced today.
Launched in 2014, The Citizenry works with artisans from around the world to produce limited-edition runs of handcrafted home goods.
By acquiring The Citizenry, Havenly is expanding its offerings in furniture, textiles and home decor.
“The Citizenry works with master artisans and heritage manufacturers to bring to market beautifully designed, globally-inspired products that are ethically crafted – from rugs and bedding, to decorative baskets and accents.
As for The Citizenry, the startup most recently raised $20 million in Series B funding in June 2021.
The retail giant announced today the launch of “badge pay,” a new option that will initially bring Just Walk Out technology to a hospital setting.
With the launch, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff will be able to grab food and beverages from their hospital’s Just Walk Out store by scanning their employee badges.
The employees will also be able to look up their receipts and see their account balance in their hospital’s badge pay web portal or mobile app, Amazon explains.
At this location, Amazon worked with healthcare automation provider CBORD on the implementation of the tech at the hospital store.
The Candler Hospital’s store, meanwhile, is operated by food and nutrition provider Morrison Healthcare, which serves over 950 hospitals and healthcare systems.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using its satellite internet service, the company said Thursday.
That technology is called “optical inter-satellite links” (OISL), a type of optical communication that uses infrared lasers to send data between spacecraft on orbit.
OISL has been around for a while to enable inter-satellite communications, but earlier generations were limited to linking just two satellites at a time.
Kuiper’s satellites will be able to connect with many other spacecraft simultaneously, which will form a mesh network in space.
“With optical inter-satellite links across our satellite constellation, Project Kuiper will effectively operate as a mesh network in space,” Kuiper VP of technology Rajeev Badyal said in a statement.
