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Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
Read full articleInsider Brief Amazon is rolling out a new AI-powered shopping assistant called Alexa for Shopping that combines conversational AI, personalized recommendations and automation tools across the company’s shopping app, website and Echo devices. According to Amazon, the system merges Amazon’s Alexa+ assistant with Rufus, the company’s AI shopping tool, which Amazon said helped more than […]
Alexa for Shopping is Amazon’s new AI-powered shopping assistant. | Image: Amazon Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company's shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you'll be talking to Alexa for Shopping, the company's new shopping assistant, powered by Alexa Plus. So, while a search for "toilet paper" will still return the expected list of brands, typing "What's a good skincare routine for men" or "When did I last order AA batteries" will now trigger an answer from Alexa. Alexa for Shopping is replacing Amazon's Rufus AI shopping assistant and, unlike Rufus, it will be front and center in the Amazon app and on the … Read the full story at The Verge.
The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.
Oracle’s abrupt termination of an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 employees via email on March 31 has sparked significant employee pushback over what many regarded as inadequate severance. The company offered four weeks of base pay plus one additional week per year of service, capped at 26 weeks, but crucially did not accelerate unvested stock grants — meaning […]
Scissero has launched ‘Suzie Law’, an open-source AI assistant to help lawyers with needs such as drafting and knowledge search, with the ability to ‘adapt ...
For teachers, advocating for your classroom and students isn’t just about the big, visible moments, but the quiet ones: the follow-up email, the extra conversation, the willingness to try again after hearing “no.”
Social media platform invests in equivalent to OpenClaw that aims to seamlessly carry out everyday tasks for users
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last week announced that the company now has more than 20 million enterprise users paying for Microsoft Copilot, according to TechCrunch. That’s up 33% from the 15 million paying customers Microsoft claimed in January. The AI assistant is now directly integrated in programs such as Word, Excel, and Outlook and Microsoft is rolling out new agent features that allow Copilot to perform multiple steps automatically directly within documents and presentations. According to Nadella, the number of questions asked of Copilot per user rose by nearly 20% compared to the previous quarter. Weekly usage is now reportedly on par with the Outlook email service. Microsoft says one advantage for Copilot is that it is no longer locked to a single provider of AI models. In addition to OpenAI’s GPT models, it now also supports models such as Anthropic’s Claude.
