This week, the tech industry saw Apple officially pull the plug on all plans for its Project Titan electric car due to profitability concerns. On the other product front, Samsung has launched its latest wearable product called Galaxy Ring.
It’s been a busy week in the AI field. Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its founders for not creating artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity at large.” ad week I had access to internal documents detailing Google’s new beta AI program.
Below, Hypebeast has compiled this week’s top technology articles to help you stay on top of the latest trends in the industry.
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring is built to ‘simplify everyday health’
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After a demo at the 2024 Mobile World Conference, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Ring.
Samsung’s latest wearable comes as its own version of the trendy Oura Ring, which is designed to track the wearer’s health data.
“As a new addition to our wearable product portfolio, the Galaxy Ring offers users a whole new way to simplify their daily health, with greater insights and more ways to understand themselves day and night. ,” Samsung said.
Pricing and release date have not yet been revealed, but the ring is expected to be released later this year.
Google is reported to be paying news organizations a fee to use its AI article writing technology.
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ad week We reported that Google is leveraging new tools to create AI-generated articles. How to test the technology? Google pays small news organizations to publish these articles.
A Google spokesperson said: “This experimental tool is designed to help small, local publishers produce high-quality journalism using factual content from public data sources, such as local government communications offices and health authorities. “It’s designed with the ability to:” a Google spokesperson told HYPEBEAST.
“Publishers have full editorial control over what ends up on their sites. These tools are intended to replace the important role journalists play in reporting, writing and fact-checking stories. It cannot be replaced.”
Apple is reportedly scrapping electric cars for the first time in 10 years
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Apple Car is no more.
bloomberg This week, news broke that Apple has officially scrapped all plans for an electric car called “Project Titan.”
Project Titan, which has been in development for a decade, was originally intended to be a self-driving car. Apple announced last month that it would scrap those plans and instead focus on non-self-driving vehicles.
The decision stemmed from profitability concerns, with employees wary of the $100,000 selling point compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars Apple continued to invest in Project Titan each year.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for breach of contract
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OpenAI co-founder and backer Elon Musk has sued the platform and its founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
Musk said the company has strayed from its original purpose of developing AI “for the benefit of humanity at large” and is now instead founded “primarily to serve Microsoft’s proprietary commercial interests.” thinking.
“To this day, OpenAI, Inc.’s website continues to proclaim that its charter is to ensure that AGI ‘benefits all humanity.’ But in reality, OpenAI, Inc. has become a de facto, closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, the world’s largest technology company,” the lawsuit says.
