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The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.
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 […]
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.
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.
Rivian's AI-powered voice assistant is rolling out today to the company's vehicle fleet. The assistant will be available through a software update to all compatible Rivian Gen 1 and Gen 2 vehicle owners who subscribe to the company's Connect Plus cellular service, which costs $15 a month or $150 a year, or are in an active trial. First announced at last year's AI and Autonomy Day, the Rivian Assistant is powered by the company's Rivian Unified Intelligence, "a shared, multi-modal AI foundation" that is "interwoven" throughout the entire company. The assistant is deeply embedded in the vehicle's operations, but will also pair with third-par … Read the full story at The Verge.
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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.
Plus, Meta’s largest data center to date goes up in Louisiana, robots will soon work out at a gym in Germany, and Uber makes a $1.25 billion deal with Rivian.
