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Lyft’s AI ‘Earnings Assistant’ offers ideas about how drivers can make more money
Lyft has launched “Earnings Assistant,” an AI chatbot tool for drivers seeking to “optimize their time on the road.” With it, drivers can create plans based on information about things like airport arrivals or local events, announced Jeremy Bird, EVP of driver experience at Lyft in an email to The Verge. The Earnings Assistant feature is in early access, and…
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Use Perplexity’s Ai Voice Assistant If You’re Tired of Siri
Siri is struggling. It’s struggling to respond to simple questions or create simple calendar events. And the end still isn’t in sight, now that Apple has mostly delayed Apple Intelligence’s “smarter Siri” until the end of the year. Meanwhile, Perplexity AI’s new Voice Assistant is here now, trying to capitalize on Apple’s mess. In addition to answering questions, the AI’s…
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Google Is Getting Ready to Replace Assistant With Gemini on Smartwatches
Get ready to say goodbye to the familiar Google Assistant on your wrist. Google’s continued push to replace Assistant with Gemini appears to be hitting Wear OS smartwatches. The changes are small–for now. The latest update to the “Assistant” app on Wear OS smartwatches hints at a significant upcoming shift. While the core functionalities remain for now, the Assistant branding…
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Turn Your To-Do List Into a Done List with DeskSense—Your AI Assistant for Life
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to DeskSense AI Assistant from just $38 for life (reg. $179) and simplify your workday with AI-powered productivity and creativity tools. What busy person hasn’t thought of how nice it would be to have an assistant? Whether it’s to help run your errands or help streamline your professional tasks, our own personal helper would be terrific.…
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Nvidia’s AI assistant is here to optimize your gaming PC
Nvidia’s G-Assist was originally an April Fools’ prank in 2017 before becoming a real tech demo last year and a functioning AI assistant for RTX GPU owners today. Project G-Assist is now available inside the Nvidia app, and will help to optimize game and system settings, measure frame rates, and even change the lighting on connected devices. G-Assist works as…
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SwitchBot adds robot vacuums, smart shades, and its new Hub 3 to Home Assistant
SwitchBot will integrate more than 45 of its products with Home Assistant during the first half of this year, the company said in an email to The Verge. That expansion includes The SwitchBot Hub 3 that was first revealed in a filing with the Connectivity Standards Alliance last week. Many of these integrations are coming in April, according to a…
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Huawei’s Pura X Ditches Android for HarmonyOS, Debuts AI Assistant With DeepSeek
Image: Huawei Huawei just flipped the script on foldable phones — literally. The Chinese tech giant has launched the Pura X, a sleek, square-shaped foldable smartphone with a wider screen, a powerful AI assistant, and no trace of Google’s Android in sight. Unveiled on March 20 in Shenzhen, the Huawei Pura X starts at 7,499 yuan (about $1,037) and marks…
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SAP rolls out ‘Joule for Developers’ AI coding assistant
SAP has announced ‘Joule for Developers’, its new an AI coding tool for programmers and developers aimed at driving staff efficiencies and freeing up time for tasks that AI cannot complete. The capabilities will be available in the SAP Business Suite, more specifically SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Buil Apps. Joule for Developers will bolster previously announced capabilities in…
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Google to replace its assistant with Gemini in Android – Computerworld
It is now clear that Google Assistant will be replaced by generative AI (genAI) tool Gemini in most Android-based phones. The process is expected to begin shortly and be completed before the end of the year, according to the official Google blog The Keyword. Mobile phones running Android 9 or earlier will not be affected by the decision, as they…
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Duckduckgo launches its version of an AI search assistant – Computerworld
After nearly two years of intensive beta testing, Duckduckgo has launched the live version of the AI assistant previously known as Duck Assist. Similar to Google’s AI Overviews, the AI Assistant can provide quick answers to users’ questions, such as why Pluto is no longer classified as a planet. If users want more information, they can ask follow-up questions via…
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