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Welcome back to review! This week, we've provided you with a lot of stories, including a new AI-powered browser from Arc; not one, but two hackers; Gemini email summary; and more. have a good weekend!
Note, Google: AI-powered search engine confusion has released Confusion Labs, which provides professional subscribers with a tool that can produce reports, spreadsheets, dashboards and more. Confused Labs can use tools such as web search, code execution, charting and image creation to conduct research and analysis to produce reports and visualizations. It's about 10 minutes. We didn't have a chance to test it and know the shortcomings of AI, and I'm sure not everything will be perfect. But this sounds great.
Lucky's luck: The dispute between Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg seems to end: The two announced a collaboration between Facebook and Luckey's company Anduril to build an extended reality (XR) device for the U.S. military. The family of products they built is called Eagleeye, which will become the ecosystem of equipment.
Not great: We know uncertainly whether AI has begun to take over the role humans have played before. However, a recent World Economic Forum survey found that 40% of employers plan to lay off employees whose AI can automate tasks. That's not very good.
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Everyone is doing the browser: The browser company said this week it is considering selling or opening up its browser Arc browser to focus on a new AI-powered browser called DIA. This is not the only one! Opera also said it is building a new AI-focused browser that mocked its browser Comet a few months ago.
finally: iPad users, happy! Now you can talk to all international friends with all new iPad specific versions of WhatsApp. Meta says users will be able to take advantage of iPados multitasking features such as stage manager, split views and glide.
Oh, great: Lexisnexis Risk Solutions, a data broker that uses personal information to help companies detect risks and fraud, reported security violations that affected more than 364,000 people. A Lexisnexis spokesman told us that an unknown hacker visited the company's GitHub account and the stolen data included name, date of birth, phone number, postal and email address, social insurance number, social insurance number and driver's license number.
There is another one: The hacker reportedly visited the personal phone number of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, obtained contact information used to mimic her, and contacted other senior officials. It seems that AI is being used to imitate her voice.
Can I cook my rice? Gmail users no longer need to click on an option to summarize emails with AI. Now, AI will automatically summarize content when needed without user interaction. This means that if you don't want Gemini to sum up your stuff, you have to opt out.
b billion US dollars: The average Catalyst has invested $1 billion in the 16-year-old writing assistant startup Grammarly. Grammarly will use new funds for sales and marketing efforts, freeing up existing capital for strategic acquisitions.
At height: Tinder is testing a new feature that will allow people to add “high preference” when looking for love. Tinder said this is not a hard filter, because it doesn't actually block or exclude configuration files, but provides information for suggestions.
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10 years of production: Carma Technology, founded by SOSV Ventures founder Sean O'Sullivan, filed a lawsuit against Uber earlier this year, accusing the company of infringing five of its patents. The lawsuit is fairly new, but the charges go back nearly a decade.