Day: February 11, 2024

These $349 smart glasses have ‘AI superpowers’ and a comical charging nose There’s a new pair of smart spectacles in town — and this time, it’s the $349 Frame glasses said to give you multimodal “AI superpowers.” The open-source eyewear comes from a startup called Brilliant Labs, which touts Frame as a way to get AI translations,…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks as much as $7 trillion for new AI chip project: Report OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking trillions of dollars in investments to overhaul the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. Altman has long talked of the supply-and-demand problem with AI chips — many AI giants want them,…

Disney Tests AI Tool That Matches Commercials to Appropriate Content Disney is beta testing a new advertising tool for its streaming services that matches commercials with appropriate scenes in movies or shows. Dubbed “magic words,” this tool uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze and tag scenes within Disney’s library of movies and television series, Reuters reported…

AI is going to save software companies’ dreams of growth It appears emerging price points for AI-powered software products will boost the total addressable market (TAM) for technology products and help reaccelerate growth at tech companies big and small. In late 2023, Battery Ventures noted that the pullback of revenue growth at software startups had reached its nadir,…

Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations Your phone’s camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild anamorphic lens creeps to market, the company (running on $9.3 million in new money) has released an AI-powered camera upgrade that it says vastly improves…

Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years by default Don’t type anything into Gemini, Google’s family of GenAI apps, that’s incriminating — or that you wouldn’t want someone else to see. That’s the PSA (of sorts) today from Google, which in a new support document outlines the ways in which it collects data from users of its Gemini…

Bootstrapped for 8 years, Xensam now has snapped up $40M for AI that manages software assets Software asset management — enterprise IT aiming, in part, to help companies save money — continues to draw a lot of money itself. In the latest development, Xensam, a startup out of Stockholm that provides AI-based tools to help businesses…