📈 How are companies using AI?

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➜ AI-Powered Travel Takes Off. Delta Air Lines has introduced an AI-driven platform that integrates various modes of transportation, such as flights, ride-sharing, and trains, to create a seamless travel experience. It’s all about personalizing and streamlining journeys for passengers, enhancing convenience and efficiency.
Delta News

➜ AI-Powered Wellness Coaching. At CES 2025, Panasonic unveiled "Umi," an AI-powered wellness coach designed to provide personalized health guidance. Umi offers tailored advice on fitness, nutrition, and stress management, aiming to enhance users' overall well-being. Panasonic goes AI.
Panasonic News

➜ Uber & NVIDIA Bet Big on Self-Driving. Uber has partnered with NVIDIA to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technology. By leveraging NVIDIA's AI capabilities, the team aims to refine perception, decision-making, and real-time navigation for AVs.
Uber Investor News

➜ Your AI Generated Subtitles. VLC Media Player is incorporating AI to generate real-time subtitles for videos. This feature will be making video content more accessible – no more waiting for human-generated captions.
PCMag

➜ AI for Retail’s Frontline. Zebra Technologies has introduced a mobile AI assistant designed to support frontline retail workers. The tool helps out with tasks like inventory tracking, customer support, and loss prevention – bringing AI straight to store aisles.
PYMNTS

➜ A Daily AI Recap. Google is testing "Daily Listen," an AI-powered feature that curates personalized, podcast-style news recaps based on user interests. This service delivers dynamic, on-demand audio content, bringing you personalized information to your morning routine.
Mashable

💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ AI Voice Agents – No Engineers Needed. French startup Rounded has developed an AI orchestration no-code platform that enables businesses to build AI-powered agents for customer service, scheduling, and more – no technical skills required.
Haywaa

➜ ChatGPT Gets a Personality Makeover. OpenAI has introduced a feature that allows users to assign specific traits to ChatGPT, such as being chattier or adopting a Gen Z tone. This shift brings AI assistants closer to feeling like personalized digital companions.
TechCrunch

➜ Brainwave-Powered AI. AI assistants are going neural. San Francisco startup Based Hardware has launched "Omi," an AI wearable device designed to boost productivity using a brain interface. Worn as a necklace or head attachment, Omi detects user interactions and assists with tasks like scheduling and information retrieval.
Best of AI

➜ AI-Driven, Self-Driving Startup. Jonas Templestein, co-founder of Monzo, is exploring the development of AI-based startups that operate autonomously. His vision includes AI-first self-driving startups, betting that software – not hardware – will be the key to truly autonomous vehicles.
Finextra

➜ Welcome to the Era of AI Supercomputers. NVIDIA has unveiled "DIGITS," a new AI supercomputer designed to advance machine learning, robotics, and autonomous systems. The desktop-sized system can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters.

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