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Whether you love or hate them, PDFs are an inescapable part of the job for many of us. In fact, it’s safe to say the format isn’t going away anytime soon, with Adobe reporting there are 3 trillion PDFs in circulation worldwide. However, there’s no denying they can be a pain to work with, and in an effort to make it easier to manage projects involving multiple PDFs, Adobe is launching a new product today called Acrobat Studio. And wouldn’t you know it, the company is marketing the inclusion of generative AI tools as a major selling point of the suite.

The main feature of Acrobat Studio are hubs Adobe calls PDF Spaces. Here, you can upload up to 100 files — including PDFs of course, alongside public web pages, RTFs, DOCXs and more — and Acrobat Studio’s built-in AI assistants will help you make sense of everything. To start, the hub will generate a summary of all the documents, with a few pre-populated prompts to help with further analysis. Accompanying each bullet point from the AI is a citation you can use to verify the model’s summary by quickly jumping to the document it pulled the information from. Sharing your PDF Spaces with colleagues is built right into Acrobat Studio.

In addition to chatting with Acrobat Studio’s AI assistant, you can create custom assistants to carry out specific tasks. By default, Adobe offers three of these — analyst, instructor and entertainer — to get you started. The names do a decent job of communicating each assistant’s purpose. For example, the instructor will attempt to explain complex topics. You can create your own by writing a set of custom prompts.

There are some notable limitations to PDF Spaces. For one, the hub’s generative AI features currently only work with documents written in English. Adobe says it will add support for other languages “over time.” Similarly, the hub can’t analyze videos, handwritten notes and password-protected files.

Outside of PDF Spaces, Acrobat Studio offers access to Adobe Express built right into the app, meaning you can use Adobe’s Firefly AI models to generate commercially safe images for your PDFs. As you would expect, the suite also comes with Adobe Acrobat and all the tools you might need to create and edit your own protected documents.

Pricing for Acrobat Studio starts at $25 per month for individuals, with a 14-day trial available.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/acrobat-studio-is-adobes-new-ai-powered-hub-for-pdfs-130003264.html?src=rss 

Qualcomm revealed its latest mobile platform for more affordable smartphones and devices called the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4. Compared to its predecessor, the new Snapdragon chips have overall improved performance, support for more detailed displays and a feature that allows for better video quality in low-light situations.

We were able to test the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 with smartphones like the Nothing 3a and 3a Pro, but this next-gen chipset represents a seven percent improvement with both the Qualcomm Adreno GPU and Kryo CPU. The Gen 4 specs also show higher peak CPU speeds of up to 2.7 GHz, compared to the previous generation’s 2.5 GHz. On top of the overall performance boost, Qualcomm added support for WFHD+ displays that have a 2,900 x 1,300 resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate. For better video in dark scenarios, Qualcomm infused the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 with the Low Light Vision feature, which was previously reserved for the company’s more expensive chips.

Beyond these upgrades, the fourth-generation Snapdragon 7s chips keep the AI-powered ability to take 200-megapixel photos, Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 4+ Technology that can recharge a device from zero to 50 percent in five minutes and support for real-time translation and transcription with multiple languages. It’s a minor upgrade from the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 that was announced last August and Qualcomm hasn’t announced any phone makers who plan to use this chip yet. However, we could see the latest chip being used by companies like Honor and Vivo, who previously used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 models.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/qualcomms-latest-snapdragon-chips-offer-slight-power-up-for-budget-smartphones-130017850.html?src=rss 

NVIDIA is working on a new AI chip meant for the Chinese market that’s more powerful than the H20, according to Reuters. It will reportedly be based on the company’s latest Blackwell architecture, which can produce chips between seven and 30 times faster than its previous AI platform. Reuters says the product is tentatively named B30A and will have a single-die design, putting all its main components on a single piece of silicon. It will apparently be capable of half the computing power of NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which have dual-die configuration. The product will also come with high-bandwidth memory and the company’s NVLink technology for speedier data transmission between processors. 

It’s possible that NVIDIA is developing the chip after the Chinese government discouraged local companies from using the H20, especially for government and national security purposes. Chinese regulators even reportedly ordered big tech corporations, including Alibaba, Bytedance and Tencent, to suspend their purchases from NVIDIA until the government is done with a national security review. China’s warning to local companies came after the US government lifted its export restriction on the company’s H20 chips. 

If you’ll recall, the US blocked the company from selling its H20 chips to China back in April over concerns that the Chinese military could use the chips to develop AI technology. In July, NVIDIA announced that the government has assured the company that it will approve licenses to ship and export H20 chips to China. The Financial Times then reported in August that the government had agreed to grant NVIDIA (and AMP) export licenses in exchange for 15 percent of their profits. 

Reuters says NVIDIA is still finalizing the specs of B30A, but it’s hoping to deliver samples to Chinese clients for testing as soon as September this year. Trump seems to already be aware that NVIDIA is working on a chip based on Blackwell for the Chinese market, but whether it gets regulatory and export approval remains to be seen: The president told reporters that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huan is “coming to see [him] again about that.”

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/nvidia-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-chip-for-china-more-powerful-than-the-h20-130057520.html?src=rss 

OpenAI has debuted its cheapest subscription yet for India only, product head Nick Turley announced on X. Called ChatGPT Go, the 390 rupee ($4.60) GPT-5 plan will offers users 10 times more message limits, image generation and file uploads than the free offering. “Making ChatGPT more affordable has been a key ask from users,” Turley wrote. “We’re rolling out Go in India first and will learn from feedback before expanding to other countries.” 

The new plan was leaked earlier and OpenAI recently introduced local currency pricing in India via India’s payment framework. With that, ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro are now offered for 1,999 rupees ($22.95) and 19,990 rupees ($229.50) — more expensive than the $20 and $200 users paid prior to the local currency rollout. 

ChatGPT Go now gives local users a more budget-oriented option. However, it doesn’t offer access to GPT-5’s advanced reasoning, has “limited deep research,” no custom GPTs and lower message, image and file upload limits compared to the higher-end subscriptions, according to OpenAI’s plan page in India. 

India is a key market for OpenAI, being second only to the US by user base. CEO Sam Altman recently met with India’s IT minister about a plan to introduce lower-cost AI plans. According to Turley’s X post, it looks like ChatGPT Go will come to other countries soon, though the company has yet to say which ones. Turley recently said that ChatGPT now has 700 million weekly users globally, up from 500 million in March. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/openais-chatgpt-go-plan-arrives-in-india-only-for-under-5-per-month-120053087.html?src=rss 

Leave it to Tesla to charge its customers for a feature it purposely left out. The company is now selling an almost $350 retrofit turn signal stalk for its Model 3 cars after removing from the initial model. Instead, it used buttons to activate the turn signal.

As of now, the add-on is only available in the Chinese market. But, Model 3 drivers will need to shell out another 2,499 yuan ($348) to get a normal part of almost every car. However, there’s a slight catch: The turn signal stalk is only compatible with models produced from February 7 of this year onward. 

Only one month earlier, Tesla launched a refreshed Model Y that brought back the turn signal stalk. “We always say at Tesla, if you aren’t deleting so much that you have to put something back, you have’t deleted enough. Well, maybe we deleted too much,” Tesla’s vice president of engineering Lars Moravy said in an interview with Jay Leno shortly after. 

The option to buy a retrofit signal stalk isn’t that surprising. Creator Chris Zheng first leaked the news back in February on X (formerly Twitter). It’s unclear whether Tesla plans to bring the add-on to additional markets. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/tesla-offers-a-350-retrofit-turn-signal-stalk-after-removing-it-from-the-model-3-123034169.html?src=rss 

UK officials will no longer compel Apple to create backdoor access to its users’ data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. She wrote on X that she, President Trump and Vice President Vance worked closely with their “partners in the UK” over the past months. “As a result,” she continued, “the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”

As The New York Times notes, the UK government issued the secret order earlier this year after amending the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016. The law gives the UK government the right to compel companies to turn over data to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Reports about the mandate started to come out in February, however, and Apple pretty much confirmed it when it disabled iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK. ADP gives users the power to to add optional end-to-end encryption to a variety of iCloud data, which means the information can’t be accessed by authorities unless they have the user’s device in their hands. “As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will,” Apple said at the time. 

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers asked Gabbard to take measures to prevent what they called “a foreign cyberattack waged through political means” after the information about the mandate went public. Meanwhile, Apple filed a complained with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which “investigates complaints about the alleged conduct of public bodies in relation to members of the public,” to get the order reversed. The company has yet to issue an official statement about the reversal of the UK mandate. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/the-uk-will-no-longer-require-apple-to-create-backdoor-access-to-users-data-110014398.html?src=rss