Uber has finally turned a profit! CEO Dara Khosrowshahi also mentioned that they are developing an AI chatbot for customer service, marketing, and other automated tasks. Rumour is it that Bob Iger might have returned to Disney to sell it to Apple, which would be the deal of a lifetime.
The Line NEOM is a new urban area planned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be built in its northwestern Tabuk Province. The site is north of the Red Sea, east of Egypt across the Gulf of Aqaba and south of Jordan. The total planned area of NEOM is
AI The AI artist community keeps coming up with amazing images generated in Midjourney. Check out the cover image above (you can view the whole series here) and these 3D text effects: Meta has released Llama 2, their open-source large language model. The release includes model weights and starting code
Threads has passed 100M users in five days since its launch last week, overtaking ChatGPT as the fastest growing app of all time (for comparison, ChatGPT reached 100M users in the first two months, which was a record at the time). It's the dream to have a large
Well the big talk of the week: Meta has launched Threads, their Instagram Twitter competitor and it passed 2 million users in the first 2 hours! I've played around with it on the first day: the UI is nicely done and leveraging your Instagram network is a pretty
AI Toyota has released a generative AI tool for designing cars: 1. Toyota Design AI Toyota (yes that company lagging in EVs somehow cares about AI) released generative AI for car design: pic.twitter.com/W3ve7ppYEA — Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) June 27, 2023 Artists have also been sharing
AI news Meta has announced Voicebox, a generative AI model that can help with audio editing, sampling, and styling. It can remove unwanted background audio like car horns or dogs barking, and generate speech in different languages. Introducing Voicebox: The Most Versatile AI for Speech Generation | MetaVoicebox is a generative
NASA has released a new X-plane designed to reduce fuel consumption. Ford and GM have agreed to adopt Tesla’s EV charging connector (as opposed to the CCS standard other manufacturers use), so customers will be able to use Tesla's charging stations starting next year. Tesla has the
Sydney F-Enders and SydCSS Presentations This week, I gave a presentation on Advanced Testing in Playwright at the Sydney F-Enders meetup on Tuesday and What's new in CSS in 2023 at SydCSS on Thursday. Here are my slides. WWDC23 Well the big news of the week of course
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Well, it's only 4 sleeps away from the biggest Apple reveal since over a decade ago: the AR/VR headset! Apple have a nice little teaser AR graphic that you can play with on your iPhone: 0:00/1× And some specs have been leaked: apparently each eye
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Generative AI in Photoshop Photoshop has released some amazing new generative AI features this week! You can now select an area and generate new AI imagery for that area with a text prompt. Three versions are generated and you can pick the best one. The tool can also remove objects
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This week, Apple rolled out Tap to Pay in Australia, with Westpac and Tyro Payments the first payment platforms to offer this feature to business customers. Apple also previewed new iOS 17 accessibility features that include the ability to clone your own voice, aimed at people with early ALS who