Monthly Archives: February 2024

AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator

In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented reality device that features a form factor starkly different from Apple’s device. … Continue reading

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Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google’s Subscription Future

Google is still mostly supported by ads but its new subscription-only chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is a major new addition to the company’s burgeoning services business.

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How to Get Gemini Advanced, Google’s Subscription-Only AI Chatbot

Google’s answer to ChatGPT Plus gives you access to Gemini Advanced, its most powerful chatbot yet.

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Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King

CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google’s new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to find information and get things done without a search engine.

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Google Rebrands Its AI Chatbot as Gemini to Take On ChatGPT

Google is bringing its ChatGPT-style chatbot Bard and some other key AI features under the banner Gemini. A new, more powerful version of the chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is subscription-only.

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Google rebrands Bard AI to Gemini and launches a new app and subscription

Google Bard, a chief competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is now called Gemini, the same name as the suite of AI models that power it.

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Closinglock, now with $12M, wants to prevent the 1 in 10 real estate transactions targeted for fraud

Users log into Closinglock’s portal where real estate transaction wiring instructions are accessed instead of provided via email. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra

Google Bard is no more. Almost exactly a year after first introducing its (rushed) efforts to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company is retiring the name and rebranding Bard as Gemini, the name of its family of foundation models. More importantly, … Continue reading

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Thea Energy raises $20M Series A for pixel-inspired fusion power plants

The startup is betting that software can supplant manufacturing precision in its quest to deliver reliable, inexpensive fusion power. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple launches a redesigned iCloud app for Windows

Apple has launched a redesigned iCloud app for Windows to offer a better onboarding and content syncing experience for iPhone or iPad users who don’t own a Mac. The new app, available for Windows 10 and 11, has a new … Continue reading

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