Teachers can use Gemini AI to come up with quiz questions based on an uploaded file or manually inputted text. Educators can then customize the questions by choosing the skills they want students to demonstrate and export them to Google Docs or Google Forms. The feature is rolling out now to educators with Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium.
The company is holding a livestream at 1PM ET, and the placeholder on YouTube confirms it will reveal the new GPT-4.1 model. Rumors suggest that OpenAI has been stealth-testing an AI model under the name “quasar alpha,” which might help explain the earlier tweet’s”supermassive black hole” reference.
Update: Added livestream details.
The investment firm Silver Lake will purchase 51 percent of Altera, a programmable chips company Intel acquired in 2015, for $4.46 billion.
The deal comes less than a month after Lip-Bu Tan took over as Intel’s CEO, reportedly with plans to overhaul the struggling chipmaker’s manufacturing business.
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has already announced the company’s plans to add a new shortcut button to its phones, but now he has confirmed on Weibo that it’s coming to the 13T, as reported earlier by Android Authority. Though the key will still allow users to switch between silent, vibrate, and ringing modes, Lau says it will also be able to perform new custom functions that he’ll reveal in the future.
Sources tell The Information that the hardware startup, called io Products, is considering creating a phone-like product without a screen, as well as “AI-enabled household devices.” OpenAI has also considered purchasing the project and its team of engineers for at least $500 million, according to The Information.
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24-year-old Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov took an inflatable boat to North Sentinel Island located in the Bay of Bengal. There, he left an “offering” of Diet Coke and a coconut to the remote Sentinelese tribe, which has resisted outsiders in the past, The New York Times reports.
Police arrested Polyakov when he returned to India’s Port Blair, as it’s illegal to attempt to contact the tribe to “protect their Indigenous way of life,” according to a police statement.
