Meta’s Smart Glasses Dominate the Event The annual Meta Connect conference made it unmistakable that the social media giant is betting heavily on its expanding line of smart glasses. Throughout the showcase, both employees and influencers wore the devices, and…
Alan Turing, a pioneering computer scientist, is most famous for the Turing test, which probes the ability to differentiate between artificial and human intelligence. Yet his most consequential wartime challenge was breaking the Enigma cipher employed by Nazi Germany in…
Deal Overview Anthropic will commit $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced Thursday. The figure dwarfs a previously reported $1.8 billion agreement disclosed by Bloomberg in May. According to Akamai’s securities filing, the commitment is conditional on Akamai…
Explosive growth in cities and riders In September 2024 Waymo served just three markets—Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco—while today it operates robotaxi service in 15 U.S. cities, with most of those launches occurring in the past year. Ridership has surged…
Design and Cultural Context Meta recently introduced the Muse Charm, a pocket‑size device that lets users build a personal avatar to act as an AI companion. Its rounded shape and pixelated display echo the late‑1990s Tamagotchi phenomenon, offering a nostalgic…
How the Feature Operates YouTube’s new “custom feeds” let users type a free‑form description of the video mix they want. The prompt is processed by Google’s Gemini AI, which curates a stream of videos matching the request. The resulting feed…
AI Enhancements to Studio App During its annual Made On YouTube gathering, the platform introduced several AI-driven updates to the YouTube Studio app, the primary dashboard for channel owners. The most notable expansion is Ask Studio, the AI-powered Q&A feature,…
Ask Music brings natural language search to over 300 million tracks At this year’s Made On YouTube event, YouTube announced the rollout of “Ask Music,” a conversational AI feature embedded directly in the YouTube Music app. Instead of typing song titles…
Milan’s Robot Spectacle Draws Viral Criticism During the fifth edition of Vogue World, a troupe of humanoid robots built by the Chinese firm Unitree entered the Galleria in Milan as part of the act titled “The Age of Intelligence,” dancing…
What Taste Profile is and why it matters Spotify began rolling out its AI‑powered “Taste Profile” feature to Premium subscribers in the United States on Wednesday, giving listeners a first‑of‑its‑kind view of how the platform interprets their musical and audio…
