Perplexity is launching its AI-powered browser on Android. The new Comet app is available to download now, and it comes with many of the same features as the desktop version of the browser, including the ability to summon Perplexity’s built-in AI assistant while you surf the web. It’s one of the first major AI-centric browsers […]
Famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy got early access to Google’s latest AI model and stumbled onto its “model smell.”
Amazon Prime Video is testing another new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you up on a show you’ve been watching before starting a new season. Video Recaps uses AI to identify a show’s important plot points and create a short but “theatrical-quality” summary video that combines a selection of clips with music, dialogue, and […]
Move over Google Assistant, there’s a new robot to yell at while driving. Starting today, Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto users, allowing drivers access to a “truly conversational” voice assistant who can help with directions, messages, and errands. With Gemini, “you can just speak naturally, have a back and […]
Gemini will replace Google Assistant and give drivers the ability to make playlists, access email, and learn about a city — all through voice.
Suno, the AI music startup being sued by the big three major labels, the RIAA, and even some indie acts for illegally training its model on copyrighted material, just raised $250 million (which might help pay its legal bills). What caught my eye in the Wall Street Journal article about the funding round and the […]
Wikipedia’s guide to “Signs of AI writing” is a great resource for learning to spot LLM-generated prose.
TCS and private equity firm TPG will invest up to $2 billion to build data centers for AI training and inference in India.
Let’s talk about AI and what I’ve been calling the “DoorDash problem.” This is about to define the next battle in AI, and it might completely transform not only how you order a sandwich — but also how the entire internet economy works in general. So what, exactly, is the DoorDash problem? Briefly, it’s what […]
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT Atlas with vertical tabs that make it look a bit like the Arc browser. Now, instead of opening a new tab at the top of the AI-powered browser, you can change your tab style to access it within a left-hand sidebar. Similar to Arc, you can resize the sidebar on ChatGPT […]