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Onscreen’s TV-based AI companion provides help for elder caregivers

Onscreen has been providing caregivers and seniors with an AI-based companion called Joy to help family members take care of older adults. Now it’s bringing its Joy AI companion app to Android tablets and iPads. The company knows caregivers are outnumbered by those who need care in this country. I felt the reality of that as I and a team of caregivers took care of my mother before she died from…
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Halliday unveils AI smart glasses with lens-free AR viewing

Halliday has come up with eyewear we didn’t know we needed: smart glasses that project images directly onto your eye. Unveiled at CES 2025‘s CES Unveiled event, Halliday showed its AI smart glasses that beams images directly to your field of vision — beaming them to your eye instead of a lens — without needing a lens to do that. Blending fashion with functionality, it is the first AI…
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Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio

For this year’s lineup, Samsung said that AI will come to life in more ways than just great picture quality. The company is introducing AI-backed experiences to make your day simpler, more dynamic, and just plain better. Announced at CES 2025, these experiences will help…
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Nvidia to open-source Run:ai, the software it acquired for $700M to help companies manage GPUs for AI

Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and said that it would open-source the software. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but was pegged by reports at $700 million when Nvidia first reported its intent to close the deal in April. Run:ai posted the deal news on its website today and also said that…
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Why 2025 will be the year of AI orchestration

In the tech world, we like to label periods as the year of (insert milestone here). This past year (2024) was a year of broader experimentation in AI orchestration and, of course, agentic use cases. As 2025 opens, VentureBeat spoke to industry analysts and IT decision-makers…
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OpenAI’s o3 shows remarkable progress on ARC-AGI, sparking debate on AI reasoning

OpenAI’s latest o3 model has achieved a breakthrough that has surprised the AI research community. o3 scored an unprecedented 75.7% on the super-difficult ARC-AGI benchmark under standard compute conditions, with a high-compute version reaching 87.5%. While the achievement in ARC-AGI is impressive, it does not yet prove that the code to artificial general intelligence (AGI) has been…
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