She won’t stand for re-election to the board this May, she said in a post on Facebook, though she will serve as an “advisor.”
“Serving as Facebook’s — and then Meta’s — COO for 14 ½ years and a board member for 12 years has been the opportunity of a lifetime,” Sandberg writes. “I will always be grateful to Mark for believing in me and for his partnership and friendship.”
Sandberg stepped down as COO in 2022.
Nearly four years ago, Atari announced a licensing deal that would allow a company called GSD Group to build Atari-themed hotels with “immersive” VR / AR experiences and esports venues — and we haven’t heard much since.
But now the Las Vegas Review-Journal says Atari Hotel is “in talks with land partners for potential Las Vegas sites” and that a “series of project announcements” is coming in the first half of this year. I’m looking forward to seeing if the brand can follow through on all of its lofty promises.
With the arrival of the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung’s Galaxy S23 now starts at $699 in the US instead of $799. That makes it $100 cheaper than the standard Galaxy S24. (Note, however, that the new S23 price has yet to show up on Samsung’s site.)
Its software and security update policy isn’t as impressive as the S24’s, but the Galaxy S23 still has hardware specs comparable to the newest gen. It’ll also get all of S24’s AI-powered features later this year.
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Politico Pro paid subscribers will now see “thousands more Federal bill summaries” generated by AI. The new Legislative Compass feature delivers both brief and in-depth bill summaries of federal bills, which Politico says should help public policy professionals respond to legislative changes faster.
The news comes after Politico’s parent company, Axel Springer, and OpenAI announced a partnership in December. As a part of the deal, Axel Springer can build with OpenAI’s technology while ChatGPT can share content from its publications.
While the new Alexa voice technology (dubbed “Remarkable Alexa”) is supposedly scheduled for a June 30th launch, a report from Business Insider cites sources who say early testing with 15,000 customers has not gone well.
Apparently, Alexa is “often giving unnecessarily long or inaccurate responses.” I am all for a smarter Alexa, but a hallucinating Alexa could be downright dangerous.
Amazon showed off some of what it planned for Alexa and generative AI at its hardware event last fall, where Dave Limp hinted it might come with a price tag.
The price of running generative AI is high, so it’s not surprising Samsung and Google have teamed up to power the new features in Galaxy S24 phones.
This is the first use deploying Gemini Pro on Vertex AI to customers, for summarization in Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard. It’s also using Imagen 2 for Generative Edit on photos, as well as Gemini Ultra for complex tasks and, like the Pixel 8 Pro, Gemini Nano as an on-device LLM.
Google’s in-car assistant app is getting a generative AI boost — it will soon be able to summarize texts while you’re on the road and suggest relevant replies and actions.
In the video below, Android Auto summarizes a text from a woman who is asking the driver if they want Thai food for dinner. The new features debuted at today’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event.
