News Apple to Open iPhone's NFC Chip to Third-Party Apps in iOS 18.1 Apple is set to open up its NFC chip to third-party developers, allowing iPhone users to make contactless payments and perform other NFC functions outside of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet.
News Google Unveils AI Tool to Automatically Generate Soundtracks for Videos It analyzes the visual elements and generates fitting audio based on the user’s input, or even without a text prompt, making it easier for content creators to add custom soundtracks to their projects.
News Stability AI Unveils Free AI-Powered Sound Generator Built using a dataset of samples from Freesound and the Free Music Archive, Stable Audio Open provides a unique opportunity for sound designers, musicians, and creators to experiment with AI-generated audio.
News Meta Unveils Breakthrough 3D Model Generator for Realistic Text-to-3D Creations Meta's 3D Gen also supports physically-based rendering (PBR), ensuring that the generated models are ready for real-world applications such as gaming and virtual reality.
News ElevenLabs Launches AI-Generated Sound Effects Tool This innovative feature is aimed at helping creators, such as podcasters, filmmakers, and game developers, to quickly and affordably produce high-quality audio content.
News OpenAI Introduces GPT-4o Mini: A Cheaper, More Efficient AI Model The model boasts an impressive context window of 128,000 tokens and supports up to 16,000 output tokens per request. Its knowledge base is current up to October 2023.
News OpenAI Introduces CriticGPT to Improve ChatGPT's Accuracy In experiments, teams using CriticGPT produced higher quality reviews compared to those working without the model. Human annotators preferred CriticGPT-assisted critiques 63% of the time over those done by humans alone.
News Stability AI Launches Stable Diffusion 3 Medium The new model excels in generating realistic human faces and hands, and it also offers improved typographic capabilities and better comprehension of complex textual prompts.
News Microsoft Integrates Ads into Windows 11 Start Menu This feature, which Microsoft refers to as "recommended apps," aims to help users discover new applications while providing a boost to developers by promoting their products directly through the OS interface.
News OpenAI Releases a Faster GPT-4o Model That Is Free for All Users The GPT-4o model is designed to handle real-time interactions across multiple formats—whether it's responding to text inquiries, engaging in voice conversations, or recognizing and analyzing images through a camera.
News Google Introduces Chrome Enterprise Premium for Enhanced Corporate Security Priced at $6 per user per month, this new offering is designed to cater to organizations seeking advanced security features beyond the basic protections provided by the standard Chrome browser.
News Google Expands Find My Device Network to Include More Devices This update not only enhances the functionality of Find My Device but also extends its capabilities to a wider range of products, making it a more comprehensive tool for locating lost items.
News Google’s Imagen 2 Now Lets You Create Animated Clips The new model builds on the features of its predecessors by not only generating images but also creating short animations with resolutions of 360x640 pixels at 24 frames per second.
News Google Photos Makes Its AI-Powered Editing Tools Available to All Users This suite of tools, once a premium offering, includes capabilities to remove unwanted elements from photos, sharpen blurry images, and adjust lighting effects post-capture, making photo editing more intuitive and accessible.
News Google Enhances Chrome's Search Features for Better Results For instance, after searching for a specific dish, users might see suggestions for related cuisine, making the search experience more dynamic and tailored.
News Google to Filter Out Spam and AI-Generated Content from Search Results Google is also updating its rules to fight spam even better, including stopping the misuse of expired websites and preventing good websites from being tricked into hosting poor-quality content.
News Adobe Releases a New Generative AI Tool for Music Creation and Editing What sets Adobe's project apart from existing generative music tools is its integrated editing capabilities, allowing users to fine-tune their compositions without the need for separate software.
News Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 AI Chatbot That Can Beat GPT-4 and Gemini Anthropic has trained these models on a mixed dataset, comprising both public sources and proprietary data, using the computational power of Amazon AWS and Google Cloud, both of which have invested significantly in the company.
News Windows Unveils Generative Erase to Let You Fix and Remove Distractions from Photos This innovative tool, now available to Windows Insiders across all channels, promises to effortlessly remove unwanted objects from images, leaving behind a seamless and visually appealing result.
News Stability AI Unveils Stable Diffusion 3, Its Latest and Most Powerful AI Model Stable Diffusion 3 addresses several key challenges faced by previous iterations, including enhanced performance with prompts containing multiple subjects and improved accuracy in incorporating text into generated images.
News Stability AI Introduces Its Next-Gen Image-Generating Model Called Stable Cascade This new model promises not only to produce photorealistic images from text or existing images but also to do so faster and more efficiently than its predecessors.
News OpenAI Unveils SORA, a Revolutionary Text-to-Video AI Model Capable of producing complex scenes with meticulous attention to detail, dynamic elements, and an understanding of the physical properties of objects, SORA can craft videos up to a minute in length.
News Google Launches an AI-Powered Image Generation Feature in Bard Images generated by Imagen 2 are marked as AI-created through metadata and digital watermarks called SynthID. These images will be appropriately labeled in Google search results.
News Google Unveils a New Video Generation AI Model Called Lumiere Lumiere's Space-Time-U-Net architecture allows it to generate the entire video's temporal duration at once, making video creation and editing more accessible to users without technical expertise.
News Chrome Introduces New AI Features for Tab Organization and Custom Themes Google continues to integrate AI and machine learning technologies into Chrome to enhance the browsing experience, improve productivity, and offer personalized features to users.
