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Humane on Wednesday announced a $200 price cut for its flagship product, the Ai Pin. The Bay Area startup founded by two former Apple executives is reportedly struggling to sell the product, which launched in April for $700. Humane is highlighting its return policy in the new offer in a message sent to its email list. “Ai Pin starts at $499 and includes the first month of the Humane Plan,” the company writes. “With a 90-day return period, you can try it completely risk-free.” The device received poor reviews from reviewers. By August, Ai Pin returns reportedly began to outpace…

Miles Brundage, a longtime policy researcher at OpenAI and senior advisor to the company's AGI readiness team, has retired. In a post on Today's It will continue to rise.” “Part of what made this a difficult decision is that working at OpenAI is now more of an opportunity to make an enormous impact than ever before,” Brundage said. “OpenAI requires employees who think deeply about its mission and are committed to maintaining a culture of rigorous decision-making around development and deployment, including internal deployments that will become increasingly important over time. ” With Brundage's departure, OpenAI's economic research division, which…

Last week, police surveillance startup Flock Safety announced it had acquired drone startup Aerodome. The deal was valued at more than $300 million, according to people in the venture world. This number had not been previously reported. Flock Safety and Aerodome are both backed by Andreessen Horowitz and have raised more than $680 million and $28 million, respectively, according to PitchBook. Rahul Sidhu, a former police officer, founded Aerodome just 17 months ago, proclaiming it a “Speedrun of American Dynamism” after the name of the A16Z defense technology-focused initiative. Sidhu also called the deal “one of the largest technology acquisitions”…

Hello everyone, welcome to TechCrunch's regular AI newsletter. If you'd like to have this sent to your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. An agent, an AI agent, is coming. This week, Anthropic released an upgraded version of its latest AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It can interact with web and desktop apps by clicking and typing, just like a human would. It's not perfect. But 3.5 Sonnet, which involves what Anthropic calls “computing,” could revolutionize the workplace. At least, that's the elevator pitch. It remains to be seen whether Anthropic's new model lives up to the hype. But its…

Apple on Wednesday rolled out the latest developer beta releases of its top operating systems, including iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2. These releases arrive one week before the general availability of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, although Apple has not yet specified a date. Next week's release will mark the first time Apple Intelligence features are generally available in non-beta form. These include integrated writing tools, image cleanup, article summaries, and typing input for a redesigned Siri experience. Those of you brave enough to sign up for the developer beta program now will have…

Developers got their first taste of Apple Intelligence's ChatGPT integration on Wednesday, thanks to the newly released iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 updates. This integration will occur in parallel with other Apple Intelligence features such as Genmoji, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, and Image Wand. For the first time, the public has access to Apple Intelligence features such as integrated writing tools, image cleanup, article summaries, and input input in the redesigned Siri experience in iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and 15.1 releases It will be. However, you will have to wait for future updates to access OpenAI's platform.…

Four months after announcing Apple Intelligence, the company's generative AI service is finally available to the public. The platform is scheduled to be released at an unspecified date next week as part of the public versions of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. Most rumors are that these operating system upgrades are expected to debut on Monday. Portions of Apple Intelligence are available to users running developer beta versions of the aforementioned operating systems. These include integrated writing tools, image cleanup, article summaries, and typing input for a redesigned Siri experience. Apple on Wednesday began rolling out developer…

Apple on Wednesday released developer beta versions of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, delivering new Apple Intelligence features including Genmoji, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, Image Wand, and ChatGPT integration. The software update was delivered the week before the general availability of OS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 and brings writing tools, image cleanup, article summarization, and input input to the platform for a redesigned Siri experience. Masu. In addition to these updates, we've also added APIs for three key Apple Intelligence features: Writing Tools API, Genmoji API, and Image Playground API. All of this is…

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search service that replaces Google, wants to put money into similarly privacy-focused startups. The company says it is actively seeking startups seeking investment or interested in partnering with or acquiring companies. In today's blog post, the company identified Mike Marino, senior vice president of finance, and Diana Chiu, director of corporate and business development, as points of contact for anyone interested. DuckDuckGo writes: “For early-stage investments, we are flexible in our deal structures, aim to move quickly, and are happy to co-invest with other companies, funds, and individuals.When it comes to acquisitions, we protect your privacy. We…

Google is making generally available SynthID Text, a technology that allows developers to watermark and detect text written by generative AI models. SynthID Text can be downloaded from the AI ​​platform Hugging Face and Google's updated Responsible GenAI Toolkit. “We are open sourcing the SynthID Text watermarking tool,” the company said in a post on Ta. So how does it work? Given a prompt like “What's your favorite fruit?”, the text generation model will tell you which “token” is most likely to follow another one token at a time. Predict each. A token is a single character or word and…