Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company is moving that kind of functionality to the desktop with the confusingly named “Personal Computer,” now available in early access by invite only. Much like … Read more
Australian productivity software company Atlassian held layoffs as the company looks to funnel more money into AI. Atlassian announced it’s cutting 10% of its workforce, around 1,600 people, on March 11. The company said this decision allows it to spend more funds on AI, enterprise sales, and to strengthen its finances. More specifically, Atlassian said … Read more
Lucid Motors has debuted a robotaxi concept vehicle that it’s calling the “Lucid Lunar,” which it showed off at an investor day on Thursday in New York City. It’s a two-seater vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, designed to be built on the same underlying platform that Lucid Motors is developing for its upcoming … Read more
Robotics company Sunday has raised a new funding round that has valued the company at unicorn status, meaning over $1 billion, it announced on Thursday. Sunday says it has raised a $165 million a $1.15 billion valuation in a Series B round led by Coatue Management. Other investors in the round include Tiger Global, Benchmark, … Read more
Parrots’ colorful blue, green, and red feathers were the status symbol, “essential for communicating status, power, and cosmology,” as Olah and his colleagues put it. In the Andes highlands, the Wari—and later the Inca—imported bright-feathered rainforest birds in the millions over several centuries. On the coasts, the Moche and Nasca cultures did much the same. … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, Google and Samsung announced a big Gemini development coming to their newest devices: task automation. Starting with food delivery and rideshare apps, Gemini would be able to use certain apps on your behalf in a virtual window to take care of things like ordering dinner or getting a car to … Read more
Between March Madness and the Oscars, now might be a good time to improve your TV setup. Google’s TV Streamer 4K is currently on sale for $79.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, Target, and Walmart, which is its second-best price to date and only $5 more than its all-time low. As a streaming device, it’s terrific. … Read more
Dating app maker Bumble is venturing into generative AI. During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, Bumble introduced a new AI assistant it’s calling “Bee,” designed to become a personal matchmaker that learns users’ “values, relationship goals, communication style, lifestyle, and dating intentions” through private chats. It then uses those insights to help find the … Read more
A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered paid proxy services and was built on a botnet of hacked routers used to commit various crimes, such as hacking into victims’ bank and … Read more
Grammarly released a controversial feature last week that uses AI to simulate editorial feedback, making it seem like you’re getting a critique from novelist Stephen King, the late scientist Carl Sagan, or tech journalist Kara Swisher. But Grammarly did not get permission from the hundreds of experts it included in this feature, called “Expert Review,” … Read more