AI continues to drive Meta's year-long recovery. Revenue from its Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns (ACS) more than doubled since last year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the Q1 2024 earnings call. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, reported a 27% increase in revenue, reaching $36.5 billion compared to $28.6 billion in 2023. Advertising contributed 97% of that revenue, or $35.6 billion, and the average price of ads rose 6%. “For all the recent scrutiny of its...
Adobe has unveiled its new Photoshop app featuring updated generative AI tools with text-to-image capabilities for designers and photographers. Adobe supercharges iOS app with new AI-driven features Driven by the Adobe Firefly Image 3 Foundation Model, the new advancements announced on Tuesday, add generative AI features for creators to the Photoshop app. Functions such as Reference Image, Generate Image, Generate Similar, Generate Background, and Enhance Detail can streamline the...
Perplexity's AI-powered search experience challenges Google's model by delivering conversational answers, citing sources and more.
As generative AI grows, how will users' search behaviors change and what does it mean for optimizing content?
There's increasing buzz that the tech behind ChatGPT will make future industrial and humanoid robots far more capable.
Making life better for people with disabilities is a laudable goal, but accessibility tech hasn’t traditionally been popular among VCs. In 2022, disability tech companies attracted around $4 billion in early-stage investments, which was a fraction of fintech’s intake, for example. One reason is that disability tech startups are often considered too niche to attain […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
ASUS adds that attendees will have a chance to see its new device lineup at Computex 2024.
Regulators are now asking how to control artificial intelligence-powered militarized robots. Regulators, civilians, and military officials from all over the world have reportedly convened during the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons.
NASA is intensifying its efforts to understand and address the planet's warming with AI. Amid escalating extreme weather events fueled by climate change, NASA is intensifying its efforts to understand and address the planet's warming.
A new pilot program in Canada looks to summarize and transcribe patient visits through AI software. Artificial intelligence looks to be the next transcriber and summarizer for patient visits in Ontario, Canada, as the nation reportedly looks to help ease the burden of paperwork done by doctors.
This AI-powered device may look like an ordinary Polaroid camera. But instead of capturing images, it uses machine learning to transform photos into poems. [Read More]
British AI unicorn Synthesia has launched its new generation of AI avatars, promising truly human-like digital speakers. Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli said traditional AI avatars, including those made by his own company, have always struggled to capture the nuance of human facial expressions and emotions. The London-based startup, which raised £71.4m last June in a […]