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🔍 Meta is developing its own AI search engine
🤖 Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browser
📱 iPhone 16 and Apple Watch 10 banned in Indonesia
💻 Apple updates the iMac with new colors and an M4 chip
🎙️ Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator
🎁 + 5 other news you might like
🔮 + 1 handpicked research papers and tools
🔍 Meta is developing its own AI search engineLINK
Meta is creating its own web-crawling search engine to enhance the information provided by its AI chatbot, as reported by The Information.
This move aims to lessen Meta's reliance on Google and Microsoft's Bing, which currently supply data about news, sports, and stocks for Meta AI users.
Following the announcement, shares of Google owner Alphabet Inc. declined by 0.8%, while Meta's shares experienced a slight increase of 0.3%.
🤖 Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browserLINK
Google is working on Project Jarvis, an AI agent that can browse the web for users, acting as an automated personal assistant with its capabilities integrated into Google Chrome.
According to a report by The Information, this AI could be introduced alongside Google's next flagship Gemini language model, possibly being previewed to a small group of testers by December.
Similar to Anthropic's Claude AI improvements, Jarvis AI responds to user commands by interacting with computer screens through tasks like clicking buttons or typing, though currently operates at a slower pace.
📱 iPhone 16 and Apple Watch 10 banned in IndonesiaLINK
Indonesia has made the sale and use of the iPhone 16 illegal, due to Apple failing to fulfill its investment commitments in the country, leading to a nationwide ban on their products.
The ban extends to other newly released Apple devices like the Apple Watch Series 10, as Indonesia has not yet issued necessary permits pending Apple's complete fulfillment of its pledges.
Apple's unfulfilled investment amounts to $14 million out of a promised $109 million, impacting Indonesia's decision to deny IMEI certifications for the iPhone 16 series and related products.
💻 Apple updates the iMac with new colors and an M4 chipLINK
Apple unveiled the 2024 iMac, featuring a similar design to its 2023 predecessor but now powered by the M4 chip, promising improved performance over previous models.
The iMac maintains its 4.5K Retina display and color options from last year, but now offers enhanced configurations with up to 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB SSD storage for higher performance needs.
The new iMac includes updated peripherals with USB-C connectivity, alongside Apple's launch of macOS 15.1 with new AI features, positioning it as part of the company's latest technological advancements.
🎙️ Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generatorLINK
Meta has introduced NotebookLlama, an open version of Google's NotebookLM podcast generator, utilizing Meta's Llama models for processing input texts into podcast-style content.
NotebookLlama transforms uploaded text files like PDF news articles into transcripts, adds dramatization, and uses open-source text-to-speech models, but struggles with a robotic audio output.
The quality of NotebookLlama's output could improve with more advanced text-to-speech models, but AI-generated podcasts, including this one, still face issues with generating inaccurate information.
Other news you might like
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World's first nuclear radiation-detecting chip can be fitted on smartphones.LINK
Latest research and tools
NotebookLlama: a guided tutorial series designed to transform PDF documents into engaging podcast episodes using open source text-to-speech models and language model processing.LINK
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