Apple kills ar glasses, Hello Alexa AI, reality of reality, reality, more cinematic

Apple is reported to stop the development of gold glasses. It will continue to support its $ 3500 Vision Pro, presented just a year ago. Apple is residing in the pros vision by gaining withdrawal with enterprises, as it has apparently forgotten Microsoft’s sad fortune of Hololens. After falling heavy back to him with once a shocking lame and future agent, Syria, Apple continues to spend billions on exactly the wrong things, losing the difficult market of him in Meta, and betting on the MR enterprise . Don’t sell your apple shares yet, anyway. The great thing to be the largest technology company in the world, with a $ 3.55 billion market cap, is that when Syria is finally a cheerful and useful assistant promised in 2012, he will start every one he Next from the iPhone and we will spend all our wake -up hours with him inside the apple ecosystem.

Hello, Syria. I’m me, Alexa. With Openai, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Google and Grok inhaling that Air from the room, it is easy to forget about Amazon and its multi -billion dollar anthropic investments. Now Amazon is preparing to launch an updated update by him for her voice assistant, Alexa, marking his most important improvement in more than a decade. The New Alexa engages in multi -turn dialogues, remembers user preferences and can work autonomously as your agent. The service will initially be free for the prime minister members, but Amazon hopes to eventually load $ 5 to $ 10 a month. An event is scheduled for February 26 to display new features.

For her loan, Meta seems to finally Grok that mixed reality has become a mixed reality for them. A bright point, meta -activated meta with audio -glasses Smart glasses, ate $ 100 m in marketing on his way to the Super Bowl on Sunday. With one million sold, this is $ 100 per party. In a supposedly ‘leaked’ email sent to Labs reality employees from Meta Cto Andrew Bosworth, 2025 is a “year made or rest” for separation. This sounds a lot like the “year of efficiency”, which without mass vacation in the company. The catastrophic enterprise of Meta, Horizon, has evolved into a poor Roblox competitor. Their Laboratories of the AR/VR reality laboratories won a record of $ 1 b of Q4, but lost $ 4.4 b loss, the same quarter. General AR/VR losses for the last 12-month period are $ 17.7 B. Although Meta has invested nearly one hundred billion dollars (not a typo) in their wrong metavera, they can, and maybe, be removed . $ 100 B is only 5.7% of market lid of $ 1.76 trillion dollars today. The stock would probably go to the notice.

Google is offering “volunteer” purchases for hardware and platform employees before the expected cuts. The “platform and equipment” unit includes more than 25,000 full -time employees working on Android, Chrome, Chromeos, Google Photos, Google One, Pixel, Fitbit and Nest, according to the internal documents we have seen. Purchases are a signal of the expected cuts inside Google as it continues to prioritize and utilize artificial intelligence. A capable software developer, added with him, can do the job of two or three people. If he has not made you a better, more productive coder, a volunteer purchase can be attractive.

Olas, also known as Autonolas Dao, has provided $ 13.8 million in funds to start Pearl, a decentralized Blockchain -based market for artificial intelligence agents. 1kx led the new round of funding, with participation from Tioga Capital, Sigil Fund, Zee Prime Capital and Spaceship Dao. Established in 2021, Olas develops AI – software capable of performing tasks and making decisions with minimal human interference in social media management and cryptocurrency trading. Olas also introduced an accelerator program offering up to $ 1 million grants to developers to integrate new agents into the Pearl platform.

Riffusion, a startup of the one based in San Francisco, has launched a free online platform enabling users to create original music using their model, Fuzz. Fuzz generates complete songs from lyrics, audio clips or visual stimulations and learns the musical preferences of individual users over time. This release comes as major technology companies such as Google, Meta and Tiktok explore similar audio -led synthesis technologies. In particular, Alex Pall of Chainsmokers has joined the Riffusion’s Advisory Board, highlighting the potential of the platform in the music industry. Riffusion’s approach positions it as a collaborative tool for both professional musicians and casual enthusiasts, offering an intuitive interface without subscription fees. Riffusion, a music generation startup, provided $ 4 million in seed funds on October 17, 2023. Greycroft led the investment round, with participation by South Park Commons and Sky9 Capital. The company plans to use funds to improve its skills, expand its music library and improve the user’s experience.

Zynga has launched “The Dragon Egg Hunt”, a global treasure hunt inside its RPG puzzle, Game of Thrones: LegendsPowered by Google Maps. Participants navigate a 2D map inspired by show opening loans, using Google 3D photorealist tiles to search for dragon virtual eggs in leading places around the world. The event offers surprises as stimulated codes and rewards in the game. Players collectively work to unlock milestone rewards and can win prices, including a Google Pixel 9 Pro and Google Play gift cards. Sweepstakes pass until February 24, 2025.

Cinematic

Of course, the creator of this extraordinary music video for the Turkish exiled rapper EzhelÖner S. Biberkökü, is a director. He made the film himself in six weeks. It cost $ 2,800 in him generation fees. “Using the possibilities of him,” Biberkökü said in an email, “I created an official music video for Ezhel from the place he misses deeply – never met him in person. He loved the video and that became his video musical official. “

Sebastian Ungrad, an art director at the Munich Storybook Studios, a well -known production company, made “recursion” while on vacation. “I have read the extraordinary book, , By Blake Crouch and felt inspired to create a trailer for an adaptation of no (still) television series! All the animated images with minimum. Images: Flow & Midjourney. Voice (speech in speech): Eleven. Sync lip: dirty Actone. Music by: John Utah – Run for Man, M83 – Solitude (Felsmann + Tily Reinterpretation)

Domestic foreign partner Nick Cleverov led this co -production with TCL Studios, and was elected as a finalist in Odyssey ProjectNarrative competition. “History is based on an idea I’ve had a long time ago for a future where artists paint human memories to make Androids feel alive,” Cleverov wrote in LinkedIn. About a dozen people worked on the project which was done with a mix of generating, sound talent and a new posting pipeline. “Keeping the gate that once made the film making an exclusive effort is eroding, allowing more creators to explore their visions in a meaningful way,” he said.

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