In our latest news roundup, we cover hot topics like Apple’s exciting product announcements, Amazon’s generative AI tools, Glass Health’s medical AI, artists’ support for generative AI, and Anthropic’s premium chatbot plan. Besides, we introduce Moments, a new iOS app for personal and professional relationship management. Stay tuned for details.
AI
Amazon’s AI tools here to help sellers in descriptions
If you’re an active seller on Amazon, this news could be intriguing: Amazon has released generative AI tools to simplify product listing creation for sellers, including captivating descriptions and titles. These tools can also improve existing descriptions. While Amazon claims it improves efficiency and quality, people already have concerns about potential errors or false information generated by AI. Amazon may face liability issues if incorrect listings are created without clear AI disclosure. Other retailers, like eBay and Shopify, are also leveraging generative AI to streamline product listings and content creation.
Glass Health AI will assist in medical diagnoses
Glass Health, co-founded by Dereck Paul and Graham Ramsey, aims to revolutionize medical practice by harnessing AI. The platform offers a notebook for physicians to store, organize, and share their diagnostic and treatment approaches. Recently, Glass Health pivoted to generative AI, employing large language models to generate diagnoses and treatment options based on patient summaries. While this holds promise, the efficacy and safety of AI in healthcare are under scrutiny, given past incidents of AI-generated misinformation. Glass Health seeks to mitigate this by connecting AI with clinically reviewed guidelines and involving clinicians in supervising AI outputs. Nonetheless, the intersection of AI and healthcare remains a subject of debate and concern.
“Institutions like hospitals and health systems will be able to provide an instance of Glass to their doctors to empower their clinicians with AI-powered clinical decision support in the form of recommendations about diagnoses, diagnostic studies, and treatment steps they can consider,” says Dereck Paul, the co-founder of Glass Health.
Artists support a letter that says generative AI is a good thing
Finally, good news for AI. This time, it is not a petition against AI, but actually a letter of endorsement and support from artists. At its core, they want to be part of discussions about AI rules. They say AI can help create art and want a say in regulating it. They also worry about companies using AI to copy their work without permission. But the letter they wrote talks little about this problem. Still, people have different opinions about AI in art, and these debates will continue as technology evolves.
Anthropic launches premium plan for chatbot Claude 2
Anthropic, co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees Dario Amadei and Daniela Amadei, launches a paid plan for its AI chatbot, Claude 2. Priced at $20/month in the U.S. and £18/month in the U.K., Claude Pro offers more usage, message capacity, priority access during peak times, and early feature access.
Anthropic aims to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus. Claude Pro subscribers can send at least 100 messages every eight hours, balancing service capacity. Anthropic’s long-term goal is to develop a next-gen AI algorithm for virtual assistants, requiring significant funding for computing capacity. It currently counts Quora among its customers and faces competition from Cohere, AI21 Labs, and OpenAI.
Gadgets
Apple event 2023: Introducing new stunning releases
On September 12, 2023, Apple made some exciting announcements at their headquarters in Cupertino. They unveiled the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2. Plus, they shared a significant commitment to making all their products carbon-neutral by 2030. Now, let’s dive into the details of some of the releases:
iPhone 15 & iPhone 15 Plus
iPhone 15 and 15 Plus boast a stunning new design with an aerospace-grade aluminum enclosure that feels great in your hand. They come in two sizes, 6.1 inches for iPhone 15 and 6.7 inches for iPhone 15 Plus. The display, now even brighter at up to 2,000 nits in sunny conditions, offers vibrant visuals. These iPhones come in 5 vibrant colors with color-infused glass and are more durable with Ceramic Shield and water and dust resistance.
The camera system includes a 48-megapixel main camera for sharp photos and introduces improved portrait photography with automatic depth detection (you don’t need to switch to the portrait mode, the iPhone will recognize itself). Thanks to the A16 Bionic chip, these iPhones offer impressive performance, improved graphics, and better battery life. Plus, the second-generation Ultra Wideband chip enhances precision finding, and advanced audio features prioritize voice quality. Introducing USB-C adds convenience, charging various devices with the same cable. Prices start at $799 for iPhone 15 and $899 for iPhone 15 Plus.
iPhone15 Pro
“The most Pro iPhone we’ve ever created,” states Apple. The iPhone 15 Pro introduces significant advancements, including a stunning titanium design, making it lighter and sleeker than previous models. It boasts the toughest glass materials in the industry, including the Ceramic Shield front, while offering 2 display size options: 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches. The new customizable Action button improves the user experience, allowing various actions and shortcuts.
Powered by the A17 Pro chip, the industry’s first 3-nanometer chip, it delivers exceptional performance, especially in graphics-intensive tasks. The new GPU offers pro-class capabilities, including hardware-accelerated ray tracing for immersive gaming. The camera system includes a 48-megapixel main camera with improved low-light performance and higher resolution options. The telephoto camera on the Pro Max model features a 4x optical zoom at a 120-millimeter focal length. Moreover, it supports ProRes video recording, ProRAW transfer, and spatial video capture, making it the most pro-iPhone yet. Prices start at $999, with availability beginning on September 22nd.
Apple Watch Series 9
The Apple Watch Series 9 boasts significant upgrades over the Series 8. Now, it features a new S9 SIP with a 60% faster GPU, a 4-core Neural Engine for speedy on-device processing, and improved Siri performance. Besides, it offers a precise iPhone finding function, a brighter display with up to 2,000 nits, and introduces a new gesture called Double Tap. The Series 9 starts at $399, and by the way, what is the most important is that it is Apple’s first carbon-neutral product. Pre-orders are open, so you can become the owner of such a masterpiece already since September 22nd.
Apple Watch Ultra 2
The Apple Watch Ultra 2, also part of the Series 9 lineup, incorporates the powerful Series 9 SIP for enhanced performance and features a groundbreaking display architecture that achieves an impressive brightness of 3,000 nits, making its display exceptionally vibrant and visible, even in bright sunlight. It also comes with the unique Modular Ultra watch face that creatively displays real-time data on the screen’s outer edge. It also boasts automatic night mode activation and has an impressive battery life, providing up to 36 hours of typical use and up to 72 hours in low-power mode. Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 models are Apple’s first-ever carbon-neutral products. With prices starting at $799, you can order them today and receive since on September 22nd.
Apps
iOS 17 from Apple is scheduled for release on September 18
Apple is set to release iOS 17 on September 18, 2023, bringing new features and improvements to iPhone users. Notable updates include Live Voicemail, FaceTime audio and video messages, Contact Posters for customizing call appearances, and a redesigned Messages app with Live Stickers. iMessage gets a makeover, simplifying access to functions like the Camera and Location Sharing. A safety feature called Check-In allows users to notify others when they’ve arrived safely. StandBy provides glanceable information when the phone is sideways, while machine learning improves autocorrect and dictation. iOS 17 also introduces the Journal app for tracking well-being and other updates across Apple’s ecosystem.
iCloud+ introduces storage plans of 6TB and 12TB
Apple has introduced 2 new iCloud+ subscription tiers offering 6TB and 12TB of storage, potentially catering to photographers and filmmakers with the new iPhone 15. These plans were met with enthusiastic applause during the announcement. While exact pricing isn’t disclosed, they are expected to be competitive with similar offerings from Google. iCloud+ subscribers also enjoy privacy features like Hide My Email and Private Relay.
Meet Moments – the newest PRM app
Moments is a newly launched iOS app designed as a Personal Relationship Manager (PRM) to help users maintain personal and professional relationships. Similarly, a recent app called Catchup also addresses the challenge of staying in touch with friends and loved ones in the social media age.
So, what is so special about this app? It reminds users to keep in touch with contacts and offers an AI composer to help write personalized messages and emails. The app categorizes contacts into groups and levels of importance and provides social to-do lists. It also includes “Learn To-Dos” to improve networking skills and offers a monthly subscription model beyond 20 contacts, starting at $3.99. Moments is self-funded and currently available only on iOS.
