Serve Robotics and Wing to trial robot-to-drone delivery in Dallas

Drones and sidewalk delivery robots promise to make last-mile delivery cheaper and more efficient, but they both have their limitations. Drones have trouble touching down in dense urban areas, and sidewalk robots tap out after a couple of miles. Uber-backed Serve Robotics and Alphabet’s Wing are betting that combining forces might just create the ultimate … Read more

Read Microsoft’s optimistic memo about the future of AI companions

Image: Getty Images Microsoft is launching a redesigned version of Copilot today, intent on becoming an AI assistant or companion. To celebrate this, Microsoft’s new AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, has penned a 700-plus-word memo on what he describes as a “technological paradigm shift” toward AI models that can understand what humans see and hear. Suleyman … Read more

Applying Transitive Closure to Sort Products Into Categories, Considering Nesting and Overlaps

In e-commerce and product-led companies, managing ==product categorization== can be tricky, especially when categories include both products and subcategories, or when products belong to multiple categories. Just imagine an electronics store where “💻 Laptops” is a category, but within that, there are subcategories like “🎮 Gaming Laptops” and “👨‍💻 Business Laptops,” each containing overlapping products. … Read more

Microsoft is using AI to improve Windows search

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is using AI models to greatly improve Windows search on its new Copilot Plus PCs, including the addition of a new Click to Do feature that’s very similar to Google’s Circle to Search. These search improvements will make it easier to find and interact with images, emails, … Read more

Fortnite creators can now make first-person shooters

Image: Epic Games Developers that build Fortnite experiences can now try out a new first-person camera mode. The feature will first be available as an experimental release in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite. Later this year, the feature will launch in beta, and at that time, creators will be able to publish their experiences with … Read more

Microsoft Paint is getting Photoshop-like generative AI fill and erase features

Generative Erase is like Google Pixel’s Magic Eraser feature but for your desktop PC. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is bringing some new AI-powered Paint and Photos features to Copilot Plus PCs that could make creatives less reliant on more powerful image editing software. Generative Fill and Generative Erase — which appear to be heavily inspired … Read more