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Amazon’s new Alexa has apparently suffered some setbacks. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the voice assistant arms race, the frontrunner may be about to finish last. On the heels of Apple revealing a new “Apple Intelligence”-powered Siri at its WWDC 2024 conference, a new report from Fortune indicates that Amazon’s Alexa — arguably the most capable of the current voice assistants — is struggling with its own generative AI makeover: ... none of the sources Fortune spoke with believe Alexa is close to accomplishing Amazon’s mission of being “the world’s best personal assistant,” let alone Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ vision of creating a real-life version of the helpful Star Trek computer. Instead, Amazon’s Alexa runs the risk of becoming a digital relic with a cautionary tale— that of a potentially game-changing technology... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Ruthia He, the founder and CEO of the subscription-based “digital health company” Done, and the company’s clinical president, David Brody, “exploited emergency flexibilities during the [covid-19] public health emergency to provide easy access to Adderall and other stimulants that were not for a legitimate medical purpose,” the Department of Justice claims. The two executives were arrested and indicted for distributing controlled substances, conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, and other charges. This is the first time the DOJ has charged someone with criminal drug distribution related to their involvement in a telehealth company. The DOJ and DEA began investigating Cerebral, another telehealth company, in 2022. Four months after news... Continue reading…

Photo: NSA OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, the company announced on Thursday. Nakasone, who was nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump, directed the agency from 2018 until February of this year. Before Nakasone left the NSA, he wrote an op-ed supporting the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the surveillance program that was ultimately reauthorized by Congress in April. OpenAI says Nakasone will join its Safety and Security Committee, which was announced in May and is led by CEO Sam Altman, “as a first priority.” Nakasone will “also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better... Continue reading…

As intrigued as we were by OpenAI's Sora text-to-video AI model, we couldn't actually try it out ourselves. That's not the case for Luma's new Dream Machine video generator, which debuted this week and is currently available for anyone to test out. As Luma explains on its blog, Dream Machine was built on "a scalable, efficient, and multimodal transformer architecture" and trained on videos. You can provide Luma's Dream Machine with a text prompt along with an image to generate videos, which Luma claims will feature "physically accurate, consistent and action-packed scenes." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3tffmBPRE I had limited success creating my own action-packed videos with simple prompts, but others are showing off just how capable Luma's Dream Machine really is. You'll find plenty of mind-blowing examples on X (formerly Twitter), and here are a few of my favorites: https://x.com/next_on_now/status/1800926650110271527 https://x.com/cfryant/status/1800923904439136267 https://x.com/KakuDrop/status/1800928377693687890 As with any of these AI video makers, detailed prompts are vital, and you might have to iterate a few times to get the result you want. That said, the fact that this is freely available to everyone is remarkable and will certainly tempt more people to try it. Aside from the impressive video samples above, one of the model's best features is turning your photos into videos. It's similar to Apple's Live Photos, but you can have the subject of a photo do virtually anything, instead of watching what actually happened. https://twitter.com/RufatAbas/status/1801300760489058527 If you want to try Dream Machine, head to Luma's website, log in with a Google account, and type your prompt into the text box. Once you are done, tap the arrow on the right side and your request will enter a queue. On average, my videos took about three or four minutes to generate. Just keep in mind that you can only generate 30 free videos per month. If you want to make any more videos after that, you're going to have to pay up. Don't Miss: Apple AI: Apple Intelligence, features, research, and supported devices The post People are losing their minds over Luma’s Dream Machine AI video maker appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Apple deals for June 2024 Best Apple Watch deals for June 2024 Today’s deals: $20 Amazon credit, $79 AirPods, $20 Echo Pop, $899 M3 MacBook Air, $289 iScooter, more Today’s deals: $30 Thermacell mosquito repeller, $189 AirPods Pro, free LED smart bulb, $349 Dyson, more

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