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Amazon extends generative AI-powered product listings to Europe Jun 21, 2024

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Amazon is bringing its generative AI listing smarts to more sellers, revealing today that those in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. can now access tools designed to improve product listings by generating product descriptions, titles, and associated details.

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Spotify quietly lets all podcasters upload videos, surpasses 250K shows Jun 21, 2024

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Non-hosted podcasters can now upload videos to Spotify. Over 250K video podcasts are on the platform.

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Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine Jun 20, 2024

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Genspark taps generative AI to write custom summaries in response to search queries.

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iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenue Jun 20, 2024

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Apple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times over the past year.

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Snap previews its real-time image model that can generate AR experiences Jun 19, 2024

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At the Augmented World Expo on Tuesday, Snap teased an early version of its real-time, on-device image diffusion model that can generate vivid AR experiences.

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Threads finally launches its API for developers Jun 19, 2024

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Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it.

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XReal introduces a $200 device that brings Android apps to its AR glasses Jun 18, 2024

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The $200 Beam pro looks like an Android phone, but instead it's a mobile device designed specifically for Xreal’s glasses.

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Former NSA head joins OpenAI board and safety committee Jun 17, 2024

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The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for its customers and possibly humanity.

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Amazon says it’ll spend $230 million on generative AI startups Jun 17, 2024

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Amazon says that it’ll commit up to $230 million to startups building generative AI-powered applications.

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iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access Jun 14, 2024

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To give users more control over the contacts an app can and cannot access, the permissions screen has two stages.

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