The Chromebooks Plus devices have been added by the search engine
Acer has unveiled two new laptops, the Chromebook Plus Spin 714 and Chromebook Plus 516 GE. The Chromebook Plus Spin 714 is a 14-inch laptop that can be configured with one of two Intel Core Ultra 7 processors and up to 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage. The Chromebook Plus 516 GE will be available in North America in May for $699.99.
There are strange answers in the search
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that the Search Generative Experience has served over a billion queries in last 12 months. He stated that the algorithm was able to answer 80% of these queries without human input. He added that Google brought the cost of delivering AI answers down by 80% over that same time, “driven by hardware, engineering and technical breakthroughs”.
A judge hints at plans for a store for illegal games
A US judge has said that Google will have to do things in a “different way” to comply with a jury’s antitrust verdict against it. The judge said Google would have to change its business as a penalty. In December, the jury had ruled that Google was unfairly giving advantage to itsPlay app store to Epic Games and other app developers.
The court is likely to look like the case of Open Artificial Intelligence
Hollywood actress Disney Johansson has said that OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman asked her last September to provide the platform’s new voice but she declined. Johansson added that she was astounded to see the company demo a new voice for ChatGPT last week that sounded like her anyway. The spokesperson of Voice of Sky and a lawsuit against Johansson claimedOpenAI rescinded Johansson’s statement.
The element from the periodic table was coaxed into an elusive compound
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have produced the first complete collection of Lanthanide complexes in solution. They found that oxygen forms the bonds byproviding pairs of electrons that fill empty energy levels around promethium. The electrons gradually fill up a particular set of electron orbitals known as 4f that are rather diffuse and therefore do not shield other negatively charged electrons in an atom.
Microsoft aims to win over developers who use artificial intelligence
Microsoft has revealed it’s building a ‘Copilot runtime’ that can be used to integrate AI-based features into its apps like Studio Effects, filters and portrait blur. The runtime also includes a library of APIs that developers can use to tap into for their own apps. Microsoft also announced a new feature to automatically translate videos from sites like YouTube.
How does the Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air?
Microsoft has claimed that its “Copilot Plus PCs” will be “58 percent faster” than an “M3 MacBook Air”. The Copilot Plus PC’s neural processing unit can perform 45 trillion operations per second. The machine learning-enabled Surface Laptop 7 is powered by a Snapdragon X Plus chip and has a 20-hour battery life, compared to 13 hours on an M3 MacBook Air.
On June 5th you’ll be able to Preorder the Sonos Ace headphones
Sonos has launched its Ace over-the-ear headphones in black or white. The headphones are equipped with a magnetically attached pouch for a USB-C, 3.5-mm cable, wireless connectivity via Bluetooth 5.4. The headphones can be pre-order at Best Buy for $449 in black or white before their release date on June 5.
The US is working with key allies to create a global artificial intelligence safety network
South Korea and the UK on Tuesday opened a two-day AI Safety Summit which is being hosted by the two countries. This is the first of its kind since the first AI Safety Summit in the UK was held in November. It will also feature talks between world leaders and industry leaders, including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
The new Windows Copilot runtime is meant to be used by developers of artificial intelligence
Microsoft has unveiled a Surface Pro with ContextAware Integration and a Copilot Library to make it easier for developers to add contextual information to their apps that feeds into the database powering Windows’ new Recall feature. “We will make this capability available for developers…with Vectordings API to build their own vector store and RAG within their applications and with their app data,” Microsoft said.