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To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. Tamar Ailam has worked at IBM for the past 24 years. She is currently an IBM Fellow and Principal Scientist for Sustainable Computing, helping teams reduce the amount of energy consumed by computing. The work she is most proud of is an open source project called Kepler that helps quantify the energy consumption of a single containerized application. In many ways, she was ahead of her time.…
More than 100 universities and high schools are turning to a new AI tool called Nectir, which lets teachers create personalized learning partners trained on syllabi, textbooks, and assignments to ask questions related to coursework. You will be able to support your students from writing to essay writing. and future career guidance. The company announced a $4 million seed funding round on Thursday, bringing its total funding to $6.3 million. The new capital will be used to develop new features and expand the team. The continuing teacher shortage is making it increasingly difficult for educators to provide individualized, one-on-one feedback…
Google announced Thursday that it is rolling out multiple updates to Pixel and Android devices as part of its December feature rollout. These features include the new Gemini extension, updated Pixel Screenshots app, expressive captions, and accessibility improvements. android Google is introducing new Gemini extensions for Spotify, Messaging, Calling, Smart Home, and more. This allows users to explore songs and playlists through Gemini. You can also use Gemini to send messages and make calls through your default messaging and calling apps. The company said that users will soon be able to control their smart home devices through Gemini. The company…
Microsoft's AI can now read your screen, and therefore the websites you're viewing. The company on Thursday began rolling out a limited, U.S.-only preview of Copilot Vision, a tool that lets you use Microsoft Edge to understand and answer questions about the sites you're visiting. Gated behind Copilot Labs, an opt-in program for experimental AI capabilities, Copilot Vision analyzes text and images on web pages to answer questions like “What's the recipe for this lasagna?” I can answer. Note that Copilot Labs requires a subscription to Microsoft's Copilot Pro plan, which costs $20 per month. In addition to answering questions,…
OpenAI's “12 Days of Shipmas'' event is hours away from starting, but the first big announcement may have been revealed early. The staging page on the website used by OpenAI points to the “ChatGPT Pro” plan, which includes all the benefits of ChatGPT Plus and new benefits. Recall that ChatGPT Plus is an upgraded version of ChatGPT, OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot platform. https://t.co/VkokDtYfkB pic.twitter.com/zXf2mQN2y8 — Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) December 5, 2024 According to a leaked page discovered by software engineer Tibor Blaho on We provide. and GPT-4o. Unlike most AIs, o1, o1-mini, and other inference models effectively fact-check themselves. This helps…
TikTok has partnered with Nielsen to enable advertisers and agencies to directly compare ad performance on TikTok across all screens, including digital, CTV and linear. Nielsen said the partnership will give advertisers a better understanding of TikTok's contribution to audience reach, while also allowing them to better place their ads across a variety of media. The company notes that capturing audience engagement on TikTok is important as people move across different platforms and devices. Nielsen says it has the ability to provide cross-media measurement through Nielsen ONE, a platform that provides cross-platform audience measurement insights. “In a fragmented ecosystem, advertisers…
The most important promise of companies working on AI-powered productivity tools is to build solutions that perform tasks on behalf of users. Some of the early demos we've seen don't quite live up to these promises. A to-do list app called Twos approaches this problem differently. When you add a task, possible related actions may be suggested. Examples include adding a link to your site or helping you write text to complete a task. The purpose is to recommend sites and apps to complete tasks. To use the AI-powered suggestions feature, simply write down a task as you normally would,…
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is expanding its publisher program with LA Times, Adweek, Mexico News Daily, and more than a dozen other news organizations signing up. Unless publishers withdraw, they will receive a share in the revenue generated by advertising on Perplexity and metrics to track the performance of their content. “If news outlets didn't continue to report on a wide range of topics, we wouldn't be able to provide meaningful, fact-based answers,” Jessica Chan, head of publisher partnerships at Perplexity, said in a statement. “We are excited to welcome these new publishers to the program.” More than a…
Although not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, it remains popular. At a high-level level, these so-called “agents” promise to go several steps beyond mere chatbots, making decisions and taking actions on people's behalf. Some help with online shopping. Other companies may make their factories more efficient with varying degrees of autonomy. That's why fledgling AI startup Across AI is quietly emerging to develop a “dynamic memory system” for complex enterprise workflows. And it's led by a founder who relatively recently sold his previous startup to IBM. Cross AI targets chief revenue officers, sales teams, and more…
When Humane released Ai Pin, the San Francisco-based gadget maker envisioned a world with purpose-built AI devices, one that you carried around in your pocket. However, reviews and sales were not very good, and at one point returns reportedly began to outnumber sales. And Humane recently lowered the price of the device from $700 to $500. The AI device is still on sale, but it's unclear what the company will do next, at least not without funding (more than $230 million). Now, Humane is touting something new. It's an operating system called CosmOS that can (potentially) significantly improve every technology…