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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels

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If you’re wondering about Greg’s status, not to worry — he’s due to return from a well-deserved parental leave in a month and change. With those administrative bits out of the way, let’s get on with Week in Review. (If Talk about a good sport. If you want it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here ).

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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

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Four female engineers spoke with me about their challenges: Tammy Butow, principal software reliability engineer (SRE) at Gremlin. Rona Chong, software engineer at Grove Collaborative. One of the primary issues these women faced throughout their careers is a feeling of isolation due to their underrepresentation.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

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The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. . I wasn’t a technology person.

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Not your father’s avatar: The real future of artificial intelligence

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While avatars are by no means, a new phenomenon — many abound in the esoteric worlds of gaming, sci-fi and film, as well as in learning and education — Jesch’s post is, perhaps, among the first of a senior business executive’s use of a genAI alter-ego for personal and business benefit in the course of daily work.

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Scopio aims to turn hematology into remote work with $50M C round

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Once samples are scanned in the lab, they could be reviewed by hematologists working from anywhere. For instance, some papers argue, the manual review of samples doesn’t often add much to doctors’ diagnostic dataset. Think of this like support software that helps a hematologist distinguish between cell types.).