Google adds lots of AI to „Chromebook Plus“

Google is adding AI-powered features to its Chromebook Plus devices. In addition to a writing assistant and wallpaper generator, users will get easy access to Google’s Gemini chatbot. In the future, Chromebooks will also get AI-powered reading summaries, improved continuity between devices, and a focus mode.

TikTok Symphony helps advertisers

TikTok has unveiled a new AI suite called TikTok Symphony to help advertisers create scripts, videos and optimize content. The suite includes an AI video generator, an AI assistant and a new platform called TikTok One that aggregates marketing tools and resources.

Import files from the cloud to ChatGPT

ChatGPT offers a new feature: users can import files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. For example, spreadsheets can be inserted into ChatGPT and edited with the AI.

Five chatbots compared

Journalists Dalvin Brown, Kara Dapena, and Joanna Stern tested ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity in everyday situations. Each chatbot was asked questions formulated by Wall Street Journal editors and columnists. The responses were evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on accuracy, usefulness and overall quality. The health category included questions about pregnancy, …

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Microsoft Brings Copilot AI Directly to Windows PCs

With its new Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft wants to usher in an era in which generative AI is processed directly on the device rather than in the cloud. These PCs have special hardware (Neural Processing Units, NPUs) to run AI processes locally. The first Copilot+ laptops, developed in collaboration with companies such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm …

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Upend is a new AI search from Canada

Canadian startup Upend offers a new kind of AI search engine that gives users access to over 100 different language models to get accurate answers with sources. Unlike competitors such as Perplexity, Upend relies on a pricing model designed to appeal to teams and students.

Atlassian Rovo is an AI-powered knowledge base

Atlassian Rovo is a new AI-powered tool that acts as a knowledge base for organizations by collecting data from different apps and helping employees find information, learn from it, and take action. Rovo is designed to increase productivity by simplifying the search for information within an organization and enabling automated tasks through AI agents.

Nvidia ChatRTX supports Google Gemma

Nvidia’s ChatRTX chatbot now supports Google’s Gemma model, allowing users to interact with their own documents, photos, and YouTube videos. The update also includes voice search and offers more ways to search locally stored data using different AI models.

OpenAI releases GPT-4o and more

One day before Google’s I/O, OpenAI tried to steal the show from its big competitor. And their demos definitely caused quite a stir. The focus was on their latest AI model GPT-4o, where the “o” stands for “omnimodel”. This is to indicate that this version does not only process text, but also e.g. image and …

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