The French government is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a home-grown alternative

The French government is saying au revoir to Microsoft Teams and Zoom as it embraces a home-grown alternative. By next year, civil servants across all departments will have switched to French videoconference platform Visio, as EuroNews reports. As with Teams and Zoom, Visio has an AI-powered transcription tool. Visio runs on a French company’s cloud … Read more

Apple and Google reportedly still offer dozens of AI ‘nudify’ apps

A recent investigation by an online advocacy organization called the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) found that the Apple App Store and Google Play Store are rife with so-called “nudify” apps. These are AI applications that create nonconsensual and sexualized images, which is a clear violation of both companies’ store policies. All told, the investigation found … Read more

WhatsApp introduces an advanced security mode to protect against hackers

Meta’s WhatsApp just introduced something called Strict Account Settings, a tool “that further protects your account from highly sophisticated cyber attacks.” This is a one-click button in the settings that automatically initiates a series of defenses. So what does it do? It blocks media and attachments from unknown senders, disables link previews and silences calls … Read more

Amazon Go and Fresh stores are closing as Amazon focuses on grocery delivery and Whole Foods

Amazon is rethinking its grocery business, and as part of that, it will shut down all of its remaining Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores. The company will convert some locations into Whole Foods Market stores.  “While we’ve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven’t yet created a truly distinctive … Read more

Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine

Yahoo has announced a new AI-powered “answer engine”, dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic’s Claude. The company says Scout “synthesizes” info from the web, as well as Yahoo’s own data and content when constructing responses to user’s natural-language search queries. Yahoo says the interface will … Read more

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