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The days of just watching the news are long gone. Google announced the latest version of its TV operating system on Monday at CES 2025. Summarize the day's biggest news using the company's Gemini AI assistant. When you ask Gemini to play “News Brief,” the AI assistant collects headlines from news articles and YouTube videos from around the internet and from trusted news channels to give you a quick overview of what's going on that day. Create. Demo of Google's news summary feature Image credit: Maxwell Zeff Google plans to release these new Gemini features for new and existing Google…
Reilly Brennan, co-founder of Trucks Venture Capital, has spent more than a decade finding and investing in entrepreneurs building the future of transportation, including autonomous vehicle technology, electric air taxis, EV charger maintenance, mobility data platforms, and more. I've been doing it. Now, Brennan, along with partners Jeffrey Schotts, Kathryn Schotts and Puneeth Melba, is looking for the next group of early-stage startups and a new 70 million yen to help build them. We have USD funding available. Trucks has not disclosed the names of the investors in the fund, but Brennan noted that there are seven strategic limited partners,…
Few cybersecurity risks facing the United States today loom as large as the potential sabotage by Chinese-backed hackers, which senior U.S. national security officials have dubbed the “defining threat of our time.” It is expressed as. The United States said hackers backed by the Chinese government had penetrated deep into networks of critical U.S. infrastructure, including water, energy and transportation systems, in some cases for years. Officials say the goal is to lay the groundwork for a potentially devastating cyberattack in the event of a future conflict between China and the United States, including over a possible Chinese invasion of…
Google is building a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Sora, one of the co-leaders of OpenAI's video generator, announced in a post on X that Tim Brooks, who left in October to join Google's AI lab Google DeepMind, will lead the new team. Google DeepMind. “DeepMind has ambitious plans to create large-scale generative models that simulate the world,” Brooks wrote Monday morning. “We are recruiting a new team for this mission.” According to the job listing linked in Brooks' post, the new modeling team will collaborate with Google's Gemini, Veo, and Genie…
Pawport, a Phoenix-based pet tech startup, returned to CES 2025 to announce an upgraded smart pet door with an additional exterior door for added security. If you're tired of bugs, or worse, raccoons and other critters sneaking into your home through traditional pet doors, Pawport may be the solution. First announced at last year's CES, this smart pet door system is made from thick, powder-coated steel and aluminum and features two heavy-duty deadbolts that withstand inclement weather and keep out unwanted animals. Masu. Thanks to tracker tags and motion sensing technology, the door automatically opens when your pet approaches. Additionally,…
Online spending during the holidays increased 3% worldwide to a record $1.2 trillion, with sales in the United States rising 4% to $282 billion. That's according to a new report from Salesforce, which uses Agentforce, Commerce Cloud, It aggregates data from various cloud services such as Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud. December 31, 2024. Overall, this number is slightly below Salesforce's expectations. Salesforce expected online sales to increase 2% ($1.19 trillion) during the holiday period. Despite that shortfall, the main dates saw outstanding performances. Black Friday transaction value increased 5% to a record $74.4 billion, while Cyber Monday sales increased…
Therabody, the maker of popular massage guns and other wellness devices, announced at CES 2025 that it will introduce a new AI-powered digital recovery platform called Coach. The new platform will launch in beta within Therabody's app. Currently, the app offers users easy-to-follow unique routines, but Coach takes recovery and health a step further by using data to understand your current needs. Developed in partnership with Garmin, Coach combines user data and generated AI to deliver a personalized recovery plan that adjusts in real-time based on your goals, activity levels, and health metrics. Coach works by collecting data from your…
The UK competition authority is already doing a lot of work in terms of countering the expansion of Big Tech companies across the technology sector, but closer to home, there is another type of anti-competitive threat: AI. We are dealing with threats for which we believe we are well prepared. Deal with it. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is tackling so-called “bridging” in public procurement contracts through a pilot program that applies AI to large amounts of data to identify competing scenarios, according to a report in the Financial Times this week. There is. Companies may have conspired to…
Qualcomm is moving toward the midrange PC market with a new system-on-chip. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm announced Snapdragon X, the latest chip in the company's Snapdragon X series of PC processors. The company claims the chip is built on a 4nm manufacturing process and delivers up to “days” of battery life and robust performance at an affordable price. There are still some software compatibility issues to resolve regarding Windows on Qualcomm's chip architecture. Still, the company is developing new processors to beat rivals AMD and Intel. Qualcomm has a long way to go. According to…
There's no doubt that Nvidia will host the biggest CES of 2025. After all, the company now has almost all of the biggest ones. The semiconductor giant boasts a market capitalization of more than $3.4 trillion, largely due to its fundamental position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have been buying Nvidia processors in bulk, and that's unlikely to change in the new year. According to Nvidia, founder and CEO Jensen Huang will appear at CES “in his trademark leather jacket and unwavering vision” on January 6 at 6:30pm PT, 9:30pm ET. We plan to cooperate…