Catégorie : Tech News
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Zoox custom robotaxis are finally coming to San Francisco and Las Vegas
Amazon-owned AV company Zoox will start rolling out dozens of its purpose-built autonomous vehicle in San Francisco and in Las Vegas in the coming weeks, co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson announced on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 stage. Levinson said that Zoox will start offering rides — starting with employees — in the SoMa neighborhood of…
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Hotelplanner AI voice hotel agents take 10,000 calls per day
The company’s global AI-powered booking team handles customer calls for reservations at over one million properties worldwide Nov 12, 2024 Fluent in 15 languages, HotelPlanner.ai’s agents are designed to provide personalized, conversational assistance using algorithms to make tailored travel recommendations. Key takeaways Agents can respond to customer needs, check room availability and rates, describe room…
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Jarvis AI is real – Google accidentally leaks its AI agent that browses the web for you
Google has accidentally leaked its Jarvis AIJarvis AI browses Chrome for youIt’s expected to be officially unveiled in DecemberGoogle has accidentally leaked its upcoming AI agent, Jarvis AI, which will browse the web for you in Chrome.According to The Information, Google posted an internal preview of the product, codenamed Jarvis, on the Chrome extension store…
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Inside a Firewall Vendor’s 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices
For years, it’s been an inconvenient truth within the cybersecurity industry that the network security devices sold to protect customers from spies and cybercriminals are, themselves, often the machines those intruders hack to gain access to their targets. Again and again, vulnerabilities in “perimeter” devices like firewalls and VPN appliances have become footholds for sophisticated…
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New in Maps: Inspiration curated with Gemini, enhanced navigation and more
All of these features are made possible thanks to Gemini’s powerful creation, reasoning and summarization capabilities — grounded in our trusted data about 250 million places around the world and insights from the Maps community. These features start rolling out in the U.S. on Android and iOS this week. You’ll also see similar experiences in…
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LLM in the Enterprise [H1 2024], Part 2: the Buy case
LLMs in the Enterprise – yay, or nay? We looked at the Build case in Part 1: Use cases: 1. automating tasks, 2. better search, and 3. accelerating content creation.Enterprises say they prefer to build LLM solutions in-house to control data and costs. Very little reaches production, though bc high inference costs, talent shortages, and…
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Booking.com’s AI Trip Planner got a big update
Travelers can now use the Smart Filter tool to describe their ideal property in their own words Oct 31, 2024 Booking.com has rolled out a major update to its AI travel planner in its mobile app, allowing users to search for accommodations based on specific criteria and ask about specific properties. For example, users can…
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New generative AI tools open the doors of music creation
This work was made possible by core research and engineering efforts from Andrea Agostinelli, Zalán Borsos, George Brower, Antoine Caillon, Cătălina Cangea, Noah Constant, Michael Chang, Chris Deaner, Timo Denk, Chris Donahue, Michael Dooley, Jesse Engel, Christian Frank, Beat Gfeller, Tobenna Peter Igwe, Drew Jaegle, Matej Kastelic, Kazuya Kawakami, Pen Li, Ethan Manilow, Yotam Mann,…
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How the TikTok algorithm works
Giraffe Social Media has created an overview of the key factors that influence the TikTok algorithm, along with key usage statistics and insights Oct 21, 2024 What drives the TikTok algorithm to promote content to a wider audience? This can be broken down into four main areas: user interaction, video details, device and account settings,…
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Future of Internet in the age of AI
By Om Malik I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he launched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt. His original pitch for Cloudflare was “Content Delivery Network (CDN) for the masses” that would take a few minutes to set up. Others like Akamai offered similar services, but for big-budget customers. Cloudflare was going after a…
