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.

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Adobe's relatively inexpensive entry-level Photoshop Elements software has been updated with new features powered by the company's Sensei artificial intelligence technology. Joining Photoshop Elements 2020 is the newly updated Premiere Elements 2020, the updated version of Adobe's entry-level video editor that likewise brings a few new notable tools to consumers. Adobe Photoshop Elements is a simplified version of the company's regular Photoshop products, making the software more affordable and accessible for ordinary consumers. Though Elements isn't quite as robust as the regular version of the related software, it offers many advanced features beyond what one would ordinarily get with apps, making it a nice option for anyone who wants to edit their own images. The company released Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 this week, bringing several new capabilities powered by Adobe Sensei.

Application programming interface management company Kong Inc. today updated its platform with new artificial intelligence- and machine learning-powered tools designed to help automate the management of API lifecycles. The new tools, Kong Brain and Kong Immunity, will be integrated into the Kong Enterprise API platform, which serves as a foundation for developers looking to build a cloud-native, microservices-based information technology architecture. Kong, which has raised $26 million from prominent investors that include Andreessen Horowitz LLC, Charles River Ventures LLC and Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, is one of several companies that are attempting to cash in on the raging popularity of APIs, which allow applications to talk to each other. Kong's API management platform works by exposing services and legacy applications as APIs and also helps to scale up and secure those interfaces as developers rebuild apps on a microservices-based architecture.

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Einstein Vision for Field Service uses deep learning to help field service agents. Salesforce on Wednesday announced a series of new AI-powered tools designed for mobile workers. The enhancements to Field Service Lightning -- a platform that enables workers to respond to customer service calls and engage with customers on site -- cover three areas: image recognition, equipment management and analytics. The first new feature, Einstein Vision for Field Service, uses deep learning to help field service agents. Companies can use pre-trained image classifiers or train their own classifiers to handle various, specialized image recognition use cases.