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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: A changelog for Bard shows Google plans to rename Bard as Gemini, with an Advanced tier and an Android app  —  Google Bard is in for a big shakeup in the next few days, as an early changelog reveals that the “Gemini” rebrand is coming next week with a new Android

Telecom giant Reliance Jio is reportedly working on generative AI and plans to launch a ‘Bharat GPT’ programme along the lines of large language model-based AI chatbots like ChatGPT. The company has reportedly partnered up with Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay to develop an India-first AI programme. Jio, which now offers products and services across the

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Sources: Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data, to enhance privacy features on Vision Pro  —  Sources indicate Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German AI startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data. Source link

Google unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Lumiere, last week. The new AI model is a multimodal video generation tool that can generate 5-second-long videos. It supports both text-to-video and image-to-video generation and joins existing AI models such as Runway Gen-2 and Pika 1.0. As per Google, Lumiere uses a Space-Time U-Net (STUNet) architecture

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: The rise and fall of Ben Armstrong, aka BitBoy, who was one of the most popular crypto YouTubers, lost much of his wealth, and now faces personal turmoil  —  Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, was once the most popular cryptocurrency YouTuber in the world.  Now his empire has

Opera One, the latest version of the company’s browser infused with artificial intelligence (AI) features will soon make its way to the iOS devices in Europe, the company announced last week. The announcement came just a day after Apple revealed the changes it will make within iOS to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets

Aarian Marshall / Wired: Records show Apple’s secretive auto unit almost quadrupled its self-driving miles on public roads in 2023, compared to 2022, jumping 2021’s total by over 30x  —  Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023. Source link

Samsung Electronics will feature Baidu’s Ernie Bot as a key attraction of its new Galaxy S24 smartphone series in China. The South Korean maker has pitched its latest handset family as the first of a wave of AI smartphones, and Baidu’s artificial intelligence tools will help with text summarization, organization and translation, Baidu said in

Ryotaro Yamada / Nikkei Asia: Analysis: ByteDance spent $8.74M on US lobbying activities in 2023, up 77% YoY, and Shein spent $2.12M, up 7.6x from 2022, amid rising US-China trade tensions  —  Chinese firms seek to minimize effects of alarm over bilateral tensions  —  ByteDance increased its lobbying spending by 77% in 2023 over the

Instagram’s Close Friends feature that lets you limit your posts, Reels, Stories, and Notes to just close friends was expanded to more users in November last year. Now, the Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform is bringing a new feature called “Flipside” to make the app feel more private. Instagram Head Adam Mosseri says the feature