Apple Intelligence is officially here

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1. Apple Intelligence is officially here

Apple Intelligence, the company's all-encompassing branding for AI tools, features, and curios, is officially here as part of Apple's updates to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The new features include AI writing tools, notification summaries, and Siri updates.

While some of the additions are useful, others, like photo editing, fall behind competitors like Google and Samsung. Apple Intelligence was announced in June and was drip fed to beta testers.

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2. Gmail will now help you write an email on the web with AI

Google is introducing "Help me write" to Gmail on the web, allowing users to create or edit emails using Gemini AI. This feature is only available to those who subscribe to Google One AI Premium or have the Gemini add-on for Workspace.

It also offers suggestions for formalizing, elaborate, or shortening a message. Google is also adding a shortcut for the "polish" option, which will appear on drafts with over 12 words.

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3. Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator

Meta has released an "open" version of Google's NotebookLM podcast generator, NotebookLlama. This project uses Meta's own Llama models for processing and can generate back-and-forth podcast-style digests of text files. NotebookLlama creates a transcript from a file, adds dramatization and interruptions, and feeds the transcript to open text-to-speech models.

However, the voices have a robotic quality and tend to talk over each other. Researchers suggest that the quality could be improved with stronger models and having two agents debate topics.

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4. Meet EngineAI All-new Robotics SE01, successfully overcomes the challenge of natural gait in humanoids

Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics has launched its first full-size humanoid robot, SE01, worldwide. The robot's cutting-edge neural network solution has redefined the standards in humanoid robotics, allowing it to exhibit unprecedented elegance and energy efficiency in both stationary and dynamic states.

SE01's outstanding gait performance is attributed to the EngineAI team's exquisite technology and meticulous product design. Equipped with dual processors from NVIDIA and Intel, SE01 has excellent visual perception and analysis capabilities in complex environments, making it suitable for research and education as well as complex industrial scenarios.

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5. A New AI Framework for 3D Medical Imaging

Dr. Oren Avram, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA Computational Medicine, has led the development of SLIViT, an advanced deep-learning framework capable of analyzing 3D medical images like MRIs and CT scans with a precision comparable to medical specialists.

The work, co-authored with Berkin Durmus, a UCLA PhD student, addresses the challenge of processing large volumetric medical datasets efficiently, making it applicable across various imaging modalities such as retinal scans and ultrasounds.

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