Amazon Wants Ai to Do Your Shopping for You

Are you a former SmileDirectClub customer? You might be eligible for a refund

When SmileDirectClub shut down a year ago, scores of existing customers of the teeth-straightening company were left in limbo

ABC News - Dec. 5

Maximize the impact of your donations

Jill Schlesinger shares tips on how to give back during the season of giving while ensuring your donations have the biggest impact.

CBS News - Dec. 5

Shop online for pre-Christmas delivery

Yahoo News - Dec. 5

One in five shop purchases now made in cash

Notes and coins used in a fifth of transactions, say retailers - a second consecutive annual rise.

BBC News - Dec. 5

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he’d love to do side-by-side comparison with Microsoft’s AI models

Google CEO fired back at Microsoft CEO's comments aimed at Google's footing in the AI arms race.

CNBC - Dec. 4

What Will Trump Do for ‘Vice Voters’?

Moderation on pot and other vices appears to have been part of a calculated effort to turn out young men for the G.O.P. — but it may come with consequences.

The New York Times - Dec. 4

What It Means That Amazon Just Unveiled a New AI Supercomputer, and New Gen-AI Models

The e-commerce and cloud computing giant is pushing to join the top tier of AI players and is spending big money to get there.

Inc. - Dec. 4

What To Do With The Rangers' Veterans

Chris Drury has some tough decisions to make with his veteran players.

Yahoo Sports - Dec. 4

A New Benchmark for the Risks of AI

MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.

Wired - Dec. 4

Spotify Wrapped Now Includes an AI-Generated Podcast Analyzing Your Listening Habits

Want to hear two robots chat about your music taste? This Wrapped season, Spotify and Google teamed up to make that dream (or nightmare) a reality.

Wired - Dec. 4

Encore’s AI-Powered Site Helps You Shop for Vintage and Secondhand Items

Using a blend of GPT-4 and its own computer model, Encore’s natural language search tool can recognize numerous brands, styles, and aesthetics across the web’s many vintage resale sites.

Wired - Dec. 4

Growl is an AI interactive boxing coach to punch up your family workouts

Growl has raised $4.75 million to create an AI-powered interactive boxing coach to punch up your family workouts.

VentureBeat - Dec. 4

How do you save a dying mobile game? Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has the answer

The mortality rate for such games is high when developers stop updating them. But when Nintendo killed off Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, it found a novel way to extend its life – and now it’s even ...

The Guardian - Dec. 4

Tim Cook Wants Apple to Literally Save Your Life

Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he’s more convinced that the tech giant’s health apps will define the company’s legacy.

Wired - Dec. 4

Dodgers' Snell: 'This is where you want to play'

The Dodgers introduced pitcher Blake Snell, their latest high-priced free agent signing, at a news conference Tuesday.

ESPN - Dec. 4

Blame AI for your gruelling job interview

Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one

Financial Times - Dec. 4

The dos and don’ts at top London hotels

The man at the helm of The Goring, the UK capital’s last family-run high-end stay, shares a surprisingly relaxed protocol . . .

Financial Times - Dec. 4

Jensen Huang Wants to Make AI the New World Infrastructure

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a plan to bring AI infrastructure to countries around the world, and he’s pitching it in person.

Wired - Dec. 4

Jamie Lee Curtis' Husband Christopher Guest Called Her to Ask, 'Do You Like Diamonds?' Before Proposing

Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest are preparing to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on Dec. 18

Yahoo Sports - Dec. 3

Apple says it uses Amazon's custom AI chips

Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom AI chips for services like searching and will evaluate if its latest AI chip can be used to pre-train its AI models like Apple Intelligence.

CNBC - Dec. 3

Do you have a lost 401(k)? A new federal database will help you track it down.

How to know if you have a “lost” or forgotten retirement account — and how to get it back if you do.

MarketWatch - Dec. 3

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Shopping Exceeds Industry Estimates

An estimated 197 million people shopped from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, the National Retail Federation said, fewer than last year but surpassing the group’s expectations.

The New York Times - Dec. 3

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too

When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn't look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release.

Wired - Dec. 3

What to Do When Your Employee Is Grieving

It’s National Grief Awareness Week. Here’s how business leaders can better lead their teams through times of loss.

Inc. - Dec. 3

Amazon launches Nova AI model family for generating text, images and videos

Nova Reel outperformed Runway's Gen-3 Alpha in A/B testing, achieving winning rates of 61.4% for video quality.

VentureBeat - Dec. 3

Emergence’s AI orchestrator launches to do what big tech offerings can’t: play well with others

It aims to sit above the fray and work well with any application and vendor that the enterprise uses, uniting them all with its orchestrator.

VentureBeat - Dec. 3

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

At its Re:Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbot’s outputs are accurate or not.

Wired - Dec. 3

Baker Mayfield weighs in on flag planting across college football: 'You take your L and you move on'

Multiple college football games ended with flag planting this past weekend

CBS Sports - Dec. 3

Indiana Jones Game Will Let You Shoot Puzzles (With Your Camera) To Solve Them

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is aiming to be an authentic recreation of the archeologist's globetrotting adventures, and as you'd expect, solving puzzles is a big part of the game. A key ...

GameSpot - Dec. 3