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Gatebox has unveiled the AI Kanji restaurant tablet system to help keep diners drinking and eating happily for better sales. The AI celebrates toasts with diners, monitors drink levels, and recommends dishes and drinks as the night progresses. The system helps restaurants counter inflation and staffing difficulties.

Apple will now likely wait until Q2 2025 to officially integrate Apple Intelligence with Siri on users' devices, as per a Bloomberg report. This upgrade will be pushed out with iOS 18.4 next year, with another update coming earlier that will focus on Siri's appearance.

Apple is slated to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its flagship wearable in 2024. Nevertheless, the wearables are unlikely to evolve into truly smart Watches on that date, according to a new leak. Then again, they may indeed be able to upgrade as blood pressure monitors this year, albeit with some caveats.

If you are using the ChatGPT app on a Mac, you are advised to make sure it is up to date without delay. Evidence that previous versions have been saving your chats in a potentially vulnerable form on your device and, thereby, do not adhere to Apple's typical privacy standards, has come to light.

Chefee Robotics has opened preorders for its robotic kitchen chef system that automates ingredient ordering and meal preparation. A quick selection on a mobile app instructs the kitchen robot to cook meals from over fifty locally-sourced fresh and refrigerated ingredients. The system can be installed on a countertop or integrated with the cabinetry and is priced from $10,000.

Samsung Electronics just published a list of 7 locations that will host Galaxy Experience Spaces to showcase the many benefits of Galaxy AI. Dubai and Paris are included and so are 5 other major cities in Asia, Europe and North America.

Los Angeles Unified School District Ed AI chatbot service provider AllHere has gone belly up after taking over $2 million for three months of poor service while violating student data privacy. The Harvard-educated CEO and most employees have been fired, and the company has been put up for sale.

HiDock touts its new product as the ultimate, most futuristic laptop dock of the future. Not only can it automatically record the voice calls taken over its inbuilt speaker, it can use AI to record and produce written transcriptions and summaries of them. It can also act as a hub for dual 4K monitors, SD cards, thumb drives and USB accessories.

RedMagic has now unleashed the most up-to-date version of its flagship gaming smartphone, with the brand's latest performance-boosting, AI and RGB-enhanced cooling technology for top-end mobile devices. The 9S Pro has up to 16GB of RAM, not to mention an official July 2024 date for the launch of its international version.

The OpenRock X seek to differentiate themselves from the typical pair of air conduction-based sports earphones with a build that integrates a new bi-axial joint for supposedly increased earhook comfort that doubles as a potentially attractive accent. They also boast Bluetooth 5.3 for multi-point connections, AI-powered noise reduction and potentially prolonged battery life.

Coming soon at a relatively low price, the Solos AirGo Vision is a new pair of smart glasses intended to be a helpful assistant in everyday life. Powerful AI systems are supported.

Opera GX has received solid improvements to its AI capabilities. The features that are now much better than before involve image generation, voice output, and image recognition. In addition to these, Aria now also provides links to its sources of information when carrying out a conversation.

Amazfit has announced the release of Zepp OS 4, a new major software update that introduces a new version of its inbuilt Flow virtual assistant based on OpenAI's latest GPT-4o multi-modal, multi-lingual model. Smartwatches such as the Amazfit Cheetah, Falcon and T-Rex Ultra to control certain smart devices from certain brands via Bluetooth, and to support new work-outs such as pickleball.

Realme has announced that its next-gen mid-range Android smartphones will launch as a series of inaugural Professional AI Camera Smartphones. The OEM has hinted that the 13 Pro 5G series w ill also launch with the latest take on the premium design of its forebears, albeit seemingly in new colors and with new branding for its signature camera hump.

While their accurate release dates remain unknown, the names are already in the wild, although they have not been confirmed by Apple yet. According to the rumors, iOS 19 goes by as "Luck,"  macOS 16 is nicknamed "Cheer,"  watchOS 12 is known as "Nepali," and visionOS 3 is labeled "Discovery" for now.

Samsung is preparing for the highly anticipated Galaxy Unpacked event scheduled for July 2024, with a global teaser campaign highlighting the upcoming frontier of Galaxy AI. The billboard ads across key cities feature the iconic logo of Galaxy AI. At the Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung is expected to unveil two flagship phones along with other Galaxy products.

The largest expansion so far brings no less than 110 new languages to Google Translate, from major ones with over 80 million speakers such as Cantonese and Punjabi (Shahmukhi) to nearly extinct dialects such as Manx, the Celtic language of the Isle of Man, with thousands of users.

Apple is planning to bring Apple Intelligence to its Vision Pro headset. The advanced AI will deliver notification summaries, writing assistance, and an enhanced version of Siri. HomePod and HomePod mini will reportedly never get any of those new features due to Assistance requiring lots of RAM to function well.

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro is no longer behind a waitlist, and Gemma 2 is now available in Google AI Studio, among other changes. These updates will improve AI accessibility, speed, and affordability for developers.

Mustafa Suleyman, the AI CEO at Microsoft, argues that anything that's accessible on the open web is "freeware," and anyone can freely use the content. As for the websites that have clear disclaimers about not using their content without permission, Suleyman says that it's a "gray area," and he thinks "that's going to work its way through the courts."

The Reno12 series of Android 14 smartphones is on the way to a new market, and its new OPPO AI features are coming with it. They are touted to feature some of the most powerful, almost magical, photo-editing features around, and also to make a user's life easier in other ways thanks to the integration of Google Gemini.

OnePlus has confirmed that its latest top-end smartphone has the extra Pixelworks "end-to-end tuning" necessary to play IRX-certified games such as Diablo: Immortal. The AI-based augmentations are touted to boost the Ace 3 Pro's powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 graphics and the Super Frame Rate features of its up-to-date Android 14-based OS.

A new Samsung One UI 6 Watch beta update is here with features such as Energy Scores, improved sleep tracking and new gesture controls in tow. Strangely enough, the update isn't available for special edition Galaxy Watches yet.

YouTube, like many other platforms, is adding AI-powered features to its Premium tier. Users can now jump ahead to the best parts of a video, and also watch YouTube Shorts in the new Picture-in-picture mode.

Deepin is one of the most popular AI-enabled Linux distros in the world. In this latest release, the developers give Deepin new powers such as additional fonts and video decoding improvements while keeping the spotlight on the custom desktop environment that has won so many hearts.

Each Thunderbird SoC integrates 1,536 RISC-V 64-bit cores along with high-speed memory and low-latency network mesh that allows scalability for up to four SoCs per PCIe board. A system can recognize up to 256 chips or 64 PCie boards.

Skylum has unveiled Aperty for rapid, AI-assisted image retouching and editing for portrait photographers. Photographers are only paid by their works, not by the time they spend retouching photos from a shoot, so Aperty helps save time and increase productivity. Tools include blemish removal, teeth whitening, and makeup effects for one-click enhancements.

Huawei touts the latest version of its MateBook X Pro as the ultimate ultrabook as it weighs just 34.6 ounces (or 980 grams (g)) - however, it is about to be dethroned by an upcoming, possibly very similarly-named, rival from Honor. The allegedly outed addition to the MagicBook line might also debut as an "AI PC" and come packed with "exclusive" tech.

Working alongside Adobe's researchers, a doctoral student at Oregon State University has managed to come up with a new training method for AI systems that is both more efficient and has a lower likelihood of providing solutions that contain ideas and behaviors that can be considered socially biased.

Team Red will present its new "Neural Texture Block Compression" next week at an event in London. The AI-powered method seems to be an alternative for Nvidia's "Random-Access Neural Compression of Material Textures" that has not yet seen actual implementation.

If going to ChatGPT's website is too much trouble, you can now download the dedicated ChatGPT app for Mac. This ends the need for a subscription and marks the first time a dedicated ChatGPT app has come to personal computers, with a Windows client being conspicuously absent.

Apple declined an AI partnership with Meta due to privacy concerns. Instead, Apple chose to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia and is negotiating with Google to include Gemini AI.

According to Mark Gurman, a trusted source for Apple-related news, it isn't the chipset that's making the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus not get Apple Intelligence. Instead, they are reportedly not getting the AI tricks because of having 6 GB of RAM. Gurman says that 8 GB of RAM is the minimum requirement, which only the latest Pro models meet.

A report from Bloomberg says Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay Screen Sharing won't be available in the EU. Slated to launch later this year, these features will supposedly run afoul of EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

A Tesla Model Y has been spotted on California's highway 101 with a large LiDAR sensor array mounted to its roof. The bulky hardware suggests that Tesla is conducting testing, either to validate its camera-based self-driving or as part of its engineering efforts for a LiDAR-based robotaxi.

Microsoft is removing the Win+C key combination to open Copilot, citing the further development of the AI tool as the reason. However, it is more likely that Microsoft is hoping to sell more Copilot+ PCs as a result.

Head Acoustics has developed the Head Visor VMA V acoustic camera to visually display sources of sound on a 7 inch touch display. The system uses up to 120 microphones to display sound sources over a real-world image. This allows users to pinpoint exact areas where noises are coming from in an object or room for further noise mitigation, soundproofing, or acoustic tuning.

Two projects aim to bring Micro Four Thirds sensors to the smartphone photography world. The AI-powered Alice camera — an M43 mount and sensor that attaches to the back of a smartphone — recently announced that it is ready to start shipping, while SwitchLens, a similar project, has just launched on Kickstarter.

According to a recent report, MSI has decided on launch pricing for the MEG 321URX, a Gen 3 QD-OLED monitor that it insists is the world's first AI gaming monitor. Seemingly, the MSI MEG 321URX QD-OLED could retail for up to 80% more than equivalents like the MPG 321URX, despite containing the same 4K and 240 Hz Gen 3 QD-OLED panel.

Since the start of 2024, Nvidia's market cap has almost tripled to currently reach $3.34 trillion. Microsoft is following close behind with $3.31 trillion and Apple is now third with $3.28 trillion.

Apple is still a few months away from releasing stable iOS 18 updates. Nonetheless, even the first iOS 18 beta showcases the extent of NPU performance improvements for the A17 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, which Apple claims could be up to 600% in some cases.

LG has unleashed the latest iteration of the relatively affordable B4 class of 4K OLED TVs. It comes in a choice of 3 screen sizes, each of which are rated for 120Hz variable refresh rate (VRR) technology, Wi-Fi 6E and NVIDIA G-SYNC. They also run the latest version of LG's software for TVs with over 300 free channels' worth of channels.

AMD and Intel have confirmed that the Microsoft Copilot Plus features won't be available on Strix Point and Lunar Lake laptops at launch. These systems will be getting them later through an update. That means the new AI features will remain exclusive to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X series for a while.

Miles Astray's submission to 1839 Awards’ AI image contest, a headless flamingo, almost got him the 3rd place. At the last moment, Miles decided to let the cat out of the bag on X, triumphantly stating that "human-made content has not lost its relevance".