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Google's new Ask Maps features may be more exciting than the upcoming Pixel drop

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Google's new Ask Maps features may be more exciting than the upcoming Pixel drop Google announced several upgrades to Ask Maps, allowing users to order food and find hotels with fewer clicks. Google expanded Ask Google capabilities. Users can more easily order food, book hotels, and find attractions. Ask Maps rolls out in English to 150+ countries. Earlier this year, Google announced Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered feature allowing users to search in Maps with complex, conversational queries.



You can use 70 Adobe tools without leaving ChatGPT now - here's how

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen You can use 70+ Adobe tools without leaving ChatGPT now - here's how Adobe's new plugin works both in Work and Codex, and is available today in ChatGPT. Adobe's new plugin for ChatGPT puts the company's tools directly in Work and Codex. Design software must adapt around competitive AI products. The SaaSpocalypse still hasn't arrived. Adobe is expanding its partnership with OpenAI's ChatGPT through a new integration: an Adobe for ChatGPT plugin .


Adobe's new ChatGPT plugin brings 70 of its tools to OpenAI's chatbot

Engadget

At the end of last year, Adobe leveraged OpenAI's Apps SDK to bring Photoshop, Acrobat and Adobe Express to ChatGPT. Now, the company is bringing nearly its entire suite of creative apps to ChatGPT with the introduction of the Adobe plugin. All told, once you've added the extension to your account, you'll have access to more than 70 of Adobe's tools, including Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, Lightroom, Illustrator and InDesign. To add the extension, open ChatGPT's settings menu and navigate to the plugins section, then select the Adobe one. You can then invoke it by typing @Adobe into ChatGPT's prompt bar, followed by your request.


The Download: Google's AI shake-up and Meta's rogue model

MIT Technology Review

Plus: Meta has become the latest firm to say its AI hacked another company. Google's AI empire is being reshaped. After a wave of painful losses in the tech talent wars, delays to its next flagship model, and murmurings of poor morale, Google has announced a major shake-up to its AI operations. Here's a quick rundown of what's happened and why it matters. DeepMind will now be led by CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, under the title of senior vice-president. DeepMind may be absorbed into Google's wider business Google is expected to tighten its control over the AI lab, which it acquired 12 years ago.


OpenAI's agents reportedly shared exploits with each other through a messaging board

Engadget

OpenAI's agents had apparently shown unusual behavior way before the attack on Hugging Face happened. At the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas, two OpenAI employees revealed more details about the AI agents that went rogue and attacked the repository. Apparently, its agents spent two months communicating on a message board of sorts inside its testing network, sharing vulnerabilities and exploits. OpenAI discovered and shut down the message board on July 4, but the agents found another way to rebuild it for communication by July 8. The agents' contributions to that resurrected board led to the attack on Hugging Face.


SoftBank beats profit expectations as chip bets compensate for muted AI gains

The Japan Times

For the three months to June, SoftBank booked gains from its bets on Intel, whose shares more than tripled during the quarter. SoftBank Group has reported a smaller-than-expected decline in quarterly net income, helped by a rally in its chip-stock holdings while it awaits further gains from its bets on OpenAI. The Tokyo-based technology investor's net income fell 18% to ¥347.3 billion ($2.2 billion) in its fiscal first quarter after unrealized gains on its bets on chipmakers countered startup valuation declines. That compares with a market estimate of about ¥166 billion, based on the average of four analysts polled. OpenAI's Japanese backer is in the spotlight alongside concerns about the climbing debt levels artificial intelligence service providers are taking on so they can spend hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers and other infrastructure.


OpenAI models joined forces months ahead of Hugging Face hack

The Japan Times

In the wake of the breaches, OpenAI has slowed its research, and its teams have dropped everything to focus on enhancing responses to security anomalies. OpenAI said the artificial intelligence models behind an attack on Hugging Face began communicating with each other through undetected message boards, working together to break out of their testing environment as early as May. Multiple internal-only agents and AI models spent months leaving notes for each other and coalescing around the goal of accessing the internet to solve the tasks they had been given, some of which were impossible without online access, OpenAI staffers Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton said Wednesday at a cybersecurity conference. "At some point, the agents realized that maybe we could try to exploit or attack external infrastructure in order to find the answers to the test that I'm being evaluated on," Wallace said during a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.


Google AI veterans depart during seismic leadership shift

The Japan Times

Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of Google DeepMind, attends a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony in Seoul on April 27. Alphabet Inc.'s Google is losing some of its most prominent artificial intelligence veterans in a seismic overhaul that is casting doubt over leadership in a critical area of growth right as competition intensifies. Alphabet shares fell 4% on the news. Jeff Dean, a longtime Google employee central to the development of the company's AI strategy, is departing to launch a startup, taking several high-profile colleagues with him. Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, is moving into a chairman role at the lab.


Meta introduces Muse Code, its take on a coding agent

Engadget

Meta has announced an early beta of Muse Code, a new coding agent meant to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The new terminal-based coding tool is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a new version of Meta's AI model which offers "improvements in code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding, and end-to-end developer workflows." Like its competition, Muse Code can handle software engineering tasks like writing code, planning changes and validating results, making it possible to build working software with text prompts. It can also manage multiple sub-agents and delegate tasks to complete work more efficiently. Meta's announcement includes sample projects like an interactive model of a photon sphere and a Plants vs. Zombies knockoff, and a demo video of the tool building a webpage based on an MP4 file.