Catégorie : Tech News
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The forces shaping the media landscape for the next generation
Published: 10 April 2025 BBC Research & Development has always been adept at predicting how the technology landscape will develop. We look at trends across society, audience behaviour, and technology to identify if, whether, and how the BBC might respond. When we see a need to respond, our remit is to explore and develop media…
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Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications
April 14, 2025: Post updated to clarify the context size. Voice interfaces are essential to enhance customer experience in different areas such as customer support call automation, gaming, interactive education, and language learning. However, there are challenges when building voice-enabled applications. Traditional approaches in building voice-enabled applications require complex orchestration of multiple models, such as…
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OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT search with shopping features
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include direct links to web pages where users can buy…
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The Winners and Losers of Google’s Big Cookie Reversal
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Fwd: The Briefing: Group Chats Blow Up
Greetings! Group chats are definitely having a moment. First, there were the headlines about how Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, had participated in private Signal discussion groups with Trump administration officials and family members in which he reportedly discussed upcoming U.S. military operations. Then, on Sunday, Ben Smith at Semafor published a riveting…
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Real-world gen AI use cases from the world’s leading organizations | Google Cloud Blog
Abstrakt uses Vertex AI to enhance contact center customer experiences by transcribing calls and evaluating sentiment in real-time. This empowers call center workers to have more effective conversations, resolve issues faster, and provide a better customer experience. ADT is building a customer agent to help its millions of customers select, order, and set up their…
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AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley | Andreessen Horowitz
What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? AI has already mastered the ability to produce realistic photos, videos, and voices, passing the visual and auditory Turing Test. The next big leap is in AI avatars: combining a face with a voice to create a talking character. Can’t you just generate an…
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AI 2027
Late 2025: The World’s Most Expensive AI OpenBrain is building the biggest datacenters the world has ever seen. (To avoid singling out any one existing company, we’re going to describe a fictional artificial general intelligence company, which we’ll call OpenBrain. We imagine the others to be 3–9 months behind OpenBrain.) GPT-3 (3 x 10^23 FLOPS)…
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Apple’s encryption row with UK should not be secret, court rules
7 days ago ShareSave Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon Technology reporters ShareSave Getty Images A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations – including the BBC – and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret. The Home Office…
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Google announces ‘Workspace Flows’ automation with Gems, audio in Docs, and more Gemini
Besides new Gemini features in Google Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat and Vids, Cloud Next 2025 saw the announcement of Google Workspace Flows. As first teased at I/O last year, the company today announced Google Workspace Flows as a tool to “automate those multi-step processes using AI that can actually research, analyze, and generate content for…