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Matt Day / Bloomberg: A profile of Oregon-based Agility Robotics, which tests its humanoid warehouse robots in the real world and has named ex-Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson as its CEO  —  Agility Robotics has targeted the warehousing industry with two-legged bots and sees them eventually stocking shelves and working in hospitals. Source link

Google has come a long way with its generative artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. One year ago, when the tech giant first unveiled its AI assistant, Bard, it became a fiasco as it made a factual error answering a question regarding the James Webb Space Telescope. Since then, the tech giant has improved the chatbot’s responses,

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Topsort, whose API allows small businesses to simplify their ad campaigns, raised a $20M Series A led by Upload Ventures, bringing its total raised to $28.6M  —  Regina Ye says she and Topsort co-founder Francisco Larrain have learned a lot in the two years since their auction-powered advertising startup launched. Source

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TechCrunch: X’s audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users’ IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting  —  The new X calling feature can hurt your privacy  —  In his quest to turn a simple and functioning Twitter app into X … Source link

Indian non-bank lenders are looking at options other than Paytm for loan disbursal, worried about the regulatory crisis engulfing the firm that has led to a temporary halt of lending services, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Paytm’s banking unit on January 31 was hit by a central bank order to wind down

Emilia David / The Verge: OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a “read aloud” feature supporting 37 languages, allowing it to read its responses out loud, available on the web and mobile apps  —  OpenAI’s new Read Aloud feature for ChatGPT could come in handy when users are on the go by reading its responses in one

Apple Inc.’s iMessage and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser and Advertising service will avoid strict new European Union rules reining in Big Tech platforms. A probe concluded that the services don’t hold a dominant enough position to be regulated under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, the European Commission announced on Tuesday. Apple

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Prices of Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, all with a 200K-token context window, seem to range from “super expensive” to “radically competitive”  —  Willison: “No model has beaten GPT-4 on a range of widely used benchmarks like this.” Source link

Apple Inc.’s longest-serving senior industrial designer is leaving the company, marking the near-complete turnover of a team once led by Jony Ive. Bart Andre, who joined Apple in 1992 alongside Ive, told colleagues this month that he is retiring, according to people familiar with the matter. Andre was one of the last remaining designers from