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OnePlus Introduces AI Features
OnePlus has unveiled its new AI strategy with the introduction of OnePlus AI, aiming to enhance user experience on its mobile devices. Key features include:
Plus Key: A physical button replacing the traditional Alert Slider, enabling various AI functions like changing sound profiles, opening the camera, or activating smart tools.
AI Plus Mind: Automatically saves, organizes, and analyzes on-screen information, integrating it into calendars with simple commands.
AI Search: Facilitates natural language searches.
Future tools in development:
AI Voice Scribe: Records, summarizes, and translates conversations.
AI Call Assistant: Provides call translations, initially available in India.
AI Reframe and AI Best Face 2.0: Enhance photo framing and group shots.
Integration with Google's Gemini assistant is also planned, ensuring real-time contextual interactions while maintaining user privacy through the Private Computing Cloud.
Salesforce Acquires Informatica
Salesforce has announced plans to acquire data management platform Informatica for approximately $8 billion.
This acquisition aims to strengthen Salesforce's data management capabilities, crucial for integrating generative AI across its business tools. Informatica's addition will enhance functionalities like Agentforce, enabling businesses to automate tasks through virtual AI agents.
UAE Offers Free ChatGPT Plus
The United Arab Emirates is set to become the first country to provide free ChatGPT Plus services to all its citizens. This initiative is part of a significant partnership between OpenAI and the UAE government. Additionally, an advanced AI data center named Stargate UAE will be established in Abu Dhabi to develop and utilize advanced AI services. This project aims to promote AI usage across various sectors and empower citizens with advanced technological tools.
New Things in Tech You Should Know
Liner AI Copilot
Liner has introduced its AI Copilot, a Chrome extension designed to streamline the research process. Key features include:
Instant Summaries: Quickly summarizes articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos, highlighting key points for efficient learning.
Interactive Explanations: Allows users to ask questions about specific content, providing detailed explanations and clarifications.
Organized Research: Enables users to highlight and save important information, creating a searchable knowledge base.
Sarvam AI: Multilingual Open-Source LLM
Sarvam AI, an Indian AI startup, has unveiled Sarvam M, a multilingual open-source large language model.
Designed to perform across diverse domains such as mathematics, programming, and various Indian languages.
Sarvam M aims to enhance accessibility and versatility in AI applications.
This development is part of India's initiative to establish sovereign AI capabilities.
Deep Dive: Elicit – The AI Research Assistant for Students
What is Elicit?
Elicit.org is a free AI-powered tool built for students and researchers. It helps you quickly find academic papers, extract key insights, and summarize findings—all from peer-reviewed sources.
Key Features:
🔍 Semantic Search: Ask a research question, get relevant papers (not just keyword matches)
📄 Auto Summaries: Understand papers without reading the whole thing
📊 Extract Data: Pull out results, methods, or participant info
📁 Organize Research: Save papers and notes in one place
Why It’s Useful for Students:
Saves hours of reading
Helps write better research papers
Great for thesis work or assignments
No account or payment required
🔗 Try it Free: https://elicit.org
Myth Buster: “AI Will Take All Our Jobs”
The myth: AI will replace humans entirely, leaving most people unemployed.
✅ The truth: AI replaces tasks, not entire jobs. Most roles are a mix of repetitive and creative work. AI handles the routine parts (like summarizing, data entry, scheduling), freeing humans to focus on strategy, creativity, and interpersonal skills.
🔍 Research shows:
AI increases productivity in writing, coding, and analysis.
New roles like AI trainer, prompt engineer, and AI ethicist are emerging.
Industries like healthcare, education, and design are seeing AI as a co-pilot, not a replacement.
💡 Bottom line: The future belongs to those who learn to work with AI — not fear it.
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