Remember those Harvard dropouts who built smart glasses for covert facial recognition — and then raised $1 million to develop AI-powered glasses to continuously listen to conversations and display its insights? One of its selling points is that the specs don’t come with a visual indicator that lights up to Read more…
Entry-level workers in AI-exposed occupations have seen employment drop 13% since late 2022, according to Stanford University research analyzing millions of payroll records. The decline affects software developers, customer service representatives, and administrative assistants aged 22 to 25, while employment for older workers in the same roles continued growing. The Read more…
Only a tiny fraction of the more than 7,000 languages on Earth are supported by artificial intelligence models, so Nvidia announced a massive new AI-ready dataset and models to support the development of high-quality AI translation for European languages. The new dataset, named Granary, is a massive open-source corpus of Read more…
Traditional business applications will become the mainframes of the 2030s – functioning but obsolete systems replaced by AI agents, predicts Microsoft corporate vice president Charles Lamanna. AI agents featuring generative AI interfaces, goal-oriented processing, and vector databases will supplant today’s form-driven, workflow-based enterprise software within five years, said Lamanna, who Read more…
After a brain stem stroke left him almost entirely paralyzed in the 1990s, French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a book about his experiences — letter by letter, blinking his left eye in response to a helper who repeatedly recited the alphabet. Today people with similar conditions often have far more Read more…
Apple has reintroduced blood oxygen monitoring to certain Apple Watch models in the U.S. by shifting the feature’s calculations to the paired iPhone, sidestepping an ITC import ban stemming from its legal dispute with medical device maker Masimo. TechCrunch reports: Blood oxygen data will be measured and calculated on the Read more…