Interesting announcements
Microsoft unveiled Copilot Vision, a feature that can ‘understand’ what appears on the screen
Copilot Vision can analyze text and images on web pages to answer queries like “What’s the recipe for this lasagna?”. For now, the feature only works in the Microsoft Edge browser and only on certain websites.
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Amazon announced a series of new AI foundation models under a new “Nova” branding
The Amazon Nova set includes six AI models handling tasks from text creation to video generation. Supporting 200 languages, the models can be customized using customers’ proprietary data.
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Google will add “Expressive Captions” on Android
The feature, which is built atop Google’s existing Live Captions, uses artificial intelligence to add “emotion to your captions” to make it more useful.
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Apple faces a class action lawsuit from UK developers over App Store commission
The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) gave the green light for a nearly $1 billion class action lawsuit to proceed. The lawsuit, filled by 1,566 app developers and later extended to nearly 13,000, accuses the company of abusing its monopolistic power to enforce a 30% commission on App Store purchases.
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Top new products
OnePlus Ace 5 Pro
Ace 5 Pro will have a 6.82-inch OLED screen, Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, 24 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. It will come with a 6,000mAh battery.
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Realme Neo 7
Neo 7 will have a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, Dimensity 9300 Plus processor, up to 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB, 512 GB or 1 TB of storage. It will come with a 7,000mAh battery.
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