Tech Weekly: Apple-Google AI Deal, Blind Assist Glasses, and Robo Taxis

Apple and Google's AI Partnership

• 🤝 Apple will integrate Google's Gemini models into its revamped Siri, deepening their alliance in the AI era.
• 🚀 This deal significantly boosts Alphabet's position in the AI race and unlocks a massive market with Apple's base of over two billion active devices.
• 📈 Apple maintained its leadership in global smartphones, holding a 20% market share last year, ahead of Samsung.

Innovations at CES 2024

• 👓 .lumen showcased 'Glasses for the Blind,' a device using haptics and AI to assist visually impaired individuals in daily life by distinguishing safe surfaces.
• 🚕 A new robo taxi design was unveiled, a collaboration between EV maker Lucid, Uber, and autonomous vehicle tech firm Neuro.
• 🤖 The robo taxi utilizes Nvidia's AI driving hardware and Neuro's autonomous technology, with plans for San Francisco Bay Area service later this year.

AI Wearables and Future Tech

• 💍 AI wearables, including rings, jewelry, exoskeletons, and glasses, were featured at CES.
• 💡 Nerva's AI jewelry claims to track mood and record daily journals.
• 🎧 Eyeball's noise-cancelling headphones are designed to detect pollution and purify the air.
• 🧠 Neuro's head of communications highlighted their AI autonomy foundation model, which improves driving capabilities through continuous learning from real-world and simulated data.