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Smart Study: Google’s new AI experiment turns textbooks into personalized lessons with slides, quizzes, audio, and mind maps. Students scored 11% higher than with regular digital readers.
AI Crash: Meta’s live demo stumbled on stage, with the AI failing key tasks and leaving the audience unimpressed. But Meta deserves credit for trying live demos.
Smooth Moves: Veed Shapeshifter, launching later this year, can automatically generate seamless video transitions using AI. See it in action here.
Behind the Scenes: Anthropic tracked three Claude issues from August to early September. Their postmortem explains what went wrong and how they’re fixing it.
Amazon is launching a new AI chatbot for sellers that can create full ads from taglines and images to scripts, music, and storyboards across its marketplace and platforms.
AI chip startup Groq has raised $750M at a $6.9B valuation, doubling its worth in a year and bringing total funding to over $3B. Its processing units power AI apps for over 2 million developers.