Amazon has started testing another AI-powered feature called "Buy for Me," which allows the e-commerce company to make purchases for you from other websites. The experience is built into the Amazon app. When you search for an item from a particular brand, you may see a section of results labeled "Shop brand sites directly" separate from the results you'll get from Amazon and its third-party sellers. If you click on the "Buy for Me" button underneath an item in the separate results section, you'll be taken to a product detail page right inside the Amazon app. The company says the page will provide relevant product information similar to the product details in Amazon's own listings.

A day without a company announcing some new way AI can supposedly make our lives better is rare. Today it's Amazon, which has announced a new AI-powered feature called "Interests." It lets you enter personalized shopping prompts based on your, well, interests and price limits -- and it arrives just in time for Amazon's Spring Sale. Interests can handle prompts with everyday language, like "Brewing tools and gadgets for coffee lovers" or "Natural makeup products for summer glow from top brands." The AI-powered feature will then look through Amazon's store to see current offerings and send you notifications about any deals, new products or restocks that are relevant to your prompt.

Tired of clunky software that makes productivity feel like a chore? Microsoft Office 2024 Home is here to change that. It's packed with AI-powered features, real-time collaboration tools, and a sleek, user-friendly interface. And for just 119.97 (regularly 149), it's a one-time investment that will level up your home office, family projects, and everyday tasks without any recurring fees. Whether you're writing reports in Word, crunching numbers in Excel, creating dazzling presentations in PowerPoint, or keeping track of life's chaos in OneNote, Office 2024 makes it all easier, faster, and smarter.

Google has been using AI in its shopping tools for a bit now, letting people use generative AI to " try on" clothes and see if the garments look good on them, or look for things using Google Lens. Today, Google is implementing even more AI functionality in its Shopping service, allowing Gemini to "show the most relevant products." Instead of only showing an assortment of products, Google Shopping now includes an AI-generated brief that recommends other products associated with what you searched for. For example, shoppers looking for notebooks may get a brief mentioning stationery like pens and erasers. The products shown are also sourced from sources like articles and guides from across the web.

Apple will delay launching three new artificial intelligence features in Europe because European Union competition rules require the company ensure that rival products and services can function with its devices. The features will launch in the fall in the US but will not arrive in Europe until 2025. The company said on Friday three features – Phone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing enhancements, and Apple Intelligence – will not be rolled out to EU users this year because of regulatory uncertainties due to the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple said the EU's regulations would force it to compromise its devices' security, an argument it has made before and that EU officials have pushed back on. "Specifically, we are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us to compromise the integrity of our products in ways that risk user privacy and data security," Apple said in an email.

Apple is rumored to be releasing its new operating system in June that could introduce AI-powered features - but not all iPhones will be compatible. Anyone still using iPhones released before 2018, including the series SE and the 8 Plus model or earlier, won't have access to the latest operating system. Older iPhones won't be compatible with iOS 18 because of outdated hardware chips that have a slower processor and less memory that can't support high-powered features. IOS 18 is set to be Apple's'biggest' update yet that will introduce large language models and other AI features. Smart devices will need an A12 Bionic chip to be compatible with the iOS 18 update which was introduced when the company released its iPhone XR and iPhone XS models in 2018.

Samsung's CES 2024 TV rollout is here. The company typically reserves finer product details (including pricing) for later, but it provided Engadget with a quick rundown of its new television lineup ahead of its press conference on Monday. Its new 8K TVs have new AI-powered features, including upscaling technology (to help with the scarcity of native 8K content), and it claims a "glare-free" OLED model looks equally clear in bright and dark rooms. Samsung's new quantum dot TVs have AI-powered upscaling tech the company hopes will nudge curious consumers into paying a premium for an 8K TV. With most content providers currently lacking native 8K streaming options, Samsung's AI Upscaling Pro feature in its QN900D (65- to 85-inch) television can help by converting 4K content into 8K or HD / SD media into 4K.

A set of features rolling out to Google Photos today will make it much easier to declutter your photo library, the company announced in a blog post. Google Photos will now automatically identify similar photos that you took in rapid succession – helpful for those times when you clicked 50 shots of that gorgeous sunset to get the one perfect frame you will never look at again – and group them in a single "stack" to clean up your library. The service will select a top pick that best represents the moment, but you can manually choose an image you want too. If you prefer to have multiple sunsets littering your library, you can turn off stacking. Photos will also automatically organize your pictures, separating IDs, receipts, and tickets into different albums, a feature that seems like it should have been there ages ago given how good Google Photos is at recognizing what's in your images.

What good are AI-powered processors without apps that take full advantage of them? That seems to be the question Intel has been asking itself lately. The company just announced a new initiative, the AI PC Acceleration Program, which is meant to help developers create new AI-powered features that take advantage of Intel's upcoming Core Ultra mobile chips. Those processors, which are due to arrived on December 14th, are notable for being the company's first to include a neural processing unit (NPU). Just like how a GPU speeds up gaming tasks, an NPU accelerates AI workloads, like the background blur feature in Windows 11's video chat Studio Effects.

Today during its second Work Transformation Summit, Zoom announced Zoom IQ for Sales, a product that uses AI to analyze sales meetings and deals to provide insights. It's the company's first explicit foray into sales automation software, a market that could grow to $7.3 billion in size by 2028, according to Verified Market Research. Sales changed dramatically during the pandemic, when lockdowns forced companies -- and their sales teams -- to adopt digital tools to get work done. According to a 2020 McKinsey report, almost 90% of sales moved to a videoconference/phone/web sales model in 2020, as business-to-business companies in particular began to see digital interactions as highly important. An unaffiliated study from Harvard Business Review found 82% of companies believe that, out of all technologies, AI has the potential to "significantly" improve alignment between sales and marketing by introducing accountability.