Amazon has delivered on its promise to launch an upgraded Alexa experience, Alexa+, by the end of March. But the service reportedly lacks many of the features Amazon demoed at a press event in late February. Alexa+ can’t yet perform certain “agentic” AI tasks showcased in the company’s marketing, like ordering takeout on Grubhub or […]
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Retym, a U.S. chipmaker with Israeli roots, has raised a fresh $75 million series D led by James Kuklinski of Spark Capital. Existing investors — Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha and Kleiner Perkins’ Mamoon Hamid — also participated, bringing its total raised to $180 million, it says. The chipmaker is another startup benefiting from AI’s glow-up. Its
Michael Bublé handed Canadians a heartfelt dose of patriotism at the Juno Awards on Sunday, setting the tone for a night of not-so-subtle references to Canada’s current tensions with the United States. The Vancouver crooner jumped into his role as hometown Junos host by telling the crowd he was proud to be Canadian. “We are
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Small businesses across the UK are being given the chance to pitch for a share of £1 million in funding as NatWest launches its Accelerator Pitch competition to celebrate ten years of its free NatWest Accelerator programme. The initiative invites ambitious entrepreneurs to submit a 60-second video pitch explaining how funding would help their business
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Tech giant Oracle is facing criticism for how it’s handling two seemingly separate data breaches. At least one of the incidents appears to still be unfolding, despite Oracle reportedly denying a breach at all. The other relates to a breach of patient data under the tech giant’s healthcare subsidiary, Oracle Health. Oracle did not respond
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Regan Morris BBC News, Los Angeles Getty Images Countless signs during the historic Hollywood strikes decried using AI. It’s now creeping further into the entertainment industry Inside a soundstage once used by silent film stars Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, Hollywood executives, actors and filmmakers sipped cocktails as they marvelled at what some say is
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My first media job was at CBC Radio in Toronto, at the show Morningside with Peter Gzowski. The job was booking interview guests, cold-calling smart people who, as a colleague once put it, “had lives more interesting than our own.” The office on Jarvis Street was shabby-chic and not without charm: manual typewriters, books and
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The End tells the story of a wealthy family who survived the collapse of the climate and civilisation in a bunker inside an abandoned mine. Before the collapse they were rich, and they continue to enjoy every luxury. Mother (Tilda Swinton) hangs Renoirs in their private gallery. Mary (Danielle Ryan) cooks delicious cakes. Doctor (Lennie
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Could Marina Abramović be the wellness guru we needed all along? It could have been Gwyneth Paltrow, she of the jade eggs and bone broths and chugging Mountain Valley water, who seemed, for a while, like the prophet we were promised. But her company, Goop, has become more of a place to buy $900 jersey
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I don’t typically put much stock in the literary tastes of tech executives. But I was intrigued when, in a March 11 post on X, the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased “a new model that is good at creative writing” and shared a 1200-word story it had produced. “This is the first time i have
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