Lyft is using Anthropic’s Claude AI for customer service

From The Verge: Lyft announced a new partnership with Anthropic to use the Claude AI assistant to handle customer service requests.

Claude is already being put to use handling service inquiries from drivers, reducing the average resolution time for a request by 87 percent, the company said.

In an...

Arm Drops Effort to Cancel Qualcomm's Chip-Licensing Deal

From PC Mag: Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor business no longer faces a contractual expiration date from Arm Holdings. In October, Arm threatened to cancel Qualcomm's license to develop chips based on Arm's designs. However, Qualcomm said in an earnings call this week that Arm had lifted that risk...

More Windows 11 patch woes, this time with mouse pointers acting up

From PC World: Last week’s optional Windows 11 update, known as patch KB5050094, was nice because it fixed several issues, including broken USB audio playback and Auto HDR for gaming.

But like with so many Windows 11 24H2 patches in the past, this update has broken a few things itself, reports...

AMD Sees Record Desktop Processor Sales, Thanks to Ryzen 9800X3D

From PC Mag: AMD’s gaming desktop processor, the Ryzen 9800X3D, is so popular it helped the company’s PC chip business reach record revenue.

“We had record desktop channel sell-out in the fourth quarter in multiple regions as Ryzen dominated the best selling CPU lists at many retailers globally,”...

Firefox surprises no one by adding AI to the browser

From PC World: Firefox 135 debuts today, with (what else?) AI built right into the browser.

Unlike Microsoft Edge and Copilot or Brave’s own Leo AI chatbot, Firefox isn’t investing in its own AI capabilities. Instead, the company is building in AI access to third-party chatbots such as Anthropic’s...

Uber Opens Up Its Waymo Robotaxi Interest List in Austin

From CNET: Uber is one step closer to letting customers hail a self-driving vehicle in Austin, Texas, through its app. The company on Wednesday opened up its interest list so that curious riders can declare their interest in potentially being matched with a Waymo robotaxi, once that partnership...

Wave Link 2.0: Shape Your Voice, Rule Your Audio

From Corsair Press Release: Elgato is proud to unveil Wave Link 2.0, the latest evolution of its powerful audio management software, which introduces incredible new features and major quality-of-life improvements. Highlights include Voice Focus, an integrated tool that ensures crisp vocals in any...

China opens Google antitrust probe in retaliation to tariffs

From The Verge: China has launched an antitrust investigation into Google as part of a salvo of responses to US tariff increases, including its own retaliatory tariffs and export controls. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation announced the Google probe on Tuesday over suspicions the US...

Microsoft tests new PowerToys app that can pull audio from video files

From PC World: Microsoft’s powerhouse collection of useful Windows utilities, PowerToys, is adding the ability to strip out an audio track from a video file, plus the more general ability to transcode video files as well.

Microsoft isn’t adding an additional app to PowerToys, a collection of more...

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