Apple working on new AI-powered Safari Browser

Good Morning! Welcome to another edition of Lightway.

Here’s everything you need to know to start your week:

→ Amazon Q chatbot
→ Apple working on AI powered Safari
→ Google’s antitrust trail wraps up
→ OpenAI might launch a new search engine, and more Tech & AI news.

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Highlights of the week

Amazon Releases Q chatbot for general use

AWS launched Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant designed to accelerate software development and improve data analysis. Here’s everything you need to know about Amazon Q:

• AI-Powered Assistant: Amazon Q is a powerful generative AI assistant that speeds up coding, testing, debugging, and internal data analysis.

• Enhanced Developer Productivity: The Amazon Q Developer tool helps developers focus more on coding and less on repetitive tasks by automating maintenance, security scanning, troubleshooting, and resource optimization.

• Data-Driven Decisions: Amazon Q Business offers employees summaries and data insights from various internal sources, enabling them to make better decisions and generate accurate reports and analyses.

• Build AI Apps Easily: Amazon Q Apps enables employees to build AI applications with no coding knowledge. They can use natural language commands to describe their desired app, and Q Apps will generate it efficiently.

According to Amazon, Q can increase employee productivity by over 80% (Read More)

Apple working on AI enabled Safari

Apple is developing Safari 18, the latest version of its web browser with new AI-powered features. Safari 18 will reportedly include:

• Intelligent Search: Enables you to quickly key topics and phrases on a webpage to power search and summarization features

• Web Eraser: A feature designed for enhanced user privacy, Web Eraser lets users delete specific sections of web pages. The browser remembers these changes even after tabs or windows are closed.

• Enhanced Page Controls: Safari 18 will feature a revamped page controls menu in the address bar for easy access to zoom options, privacy settings, content blocking, and shortcuts for extensions and new tools.

Safari 18 is being tested alongside iOS 18 and macOS 15 and could be launched later this year (read more)

Google Antitrust trail wraps up

Google's search business is now in the hands of Judge Amit Mehta following the conclusion of closing arguments in the Department of Justice's landmark antitrust trial against the tech giant.

• Anticompetitive: The DOJ and 38 states allege that Google locked up the search market by securing contracts with phone manufacturers and browser companies, making itself the default search engine and stifling competition.

• Sabotaging Bing Ads: Google allegedly delayed incorporating features for Microsoft Bing ads in its SA360 tool, which manages ads across multiple platforms, giving Google an unfair advantage in the search advertising market.

• Deleted Chats Controversy: The DOJ accused Google of intentionally deleting chat messages that could have served as evidence, arguing that Google maintained a flawed retention policy.

Although this landmark antitrust trail wrapped up, there is no concrete timeline for ruling (read more)

 Tech Roundup

→ Ukraine Deploys AI Spokesperson to provide official statements on State Affairs (link)

→ Charge EV in 10 mins: Volvo unveils world’s first EV capable of charging in 10 minutes. (link)

→ Apple’s secret AI lab: Apple poached at least 36 AI experts from Google to form a new AI lab in Zurich. (link)

→ Humanoid Robots: Microsoft invests in Humanoid Robot startup, Sanctuary AI (link)

→ Atlassian launches Rovo AI to simplify tasks for knowledge workers by assisting in finding, understanding, and taking action on work-related information. (link)

→ Anthropic’s ChatGPT rival Claude is now available on iOS (link)

→ Apple announces largest-ever $110 billion share buyback as iPhone sales drop.(link)

→ OpenAI might be working on a search engine to challenge Google’s dominance (link)

→ X is using Grok to publish AI-generated news summaries (link)

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