📦 Salesforce announces SlackGPT, Europe plans for its own Starlink, Alfa Romeo wants to dethrone Tesla

Rocket science 🚀

Europe wants its own Starlink (3 min)

A 2.4 billion euro investment will support the construction of Europe's own global communication constellation, with major satellite companies, including SES and Eutelsat.

Big tech 🌟

Try out Microsoft's Bing latest tools (2 min)

Users can now access the new visual search and image-based answers features on Microsoft's AI-powered search engine without a waitlist.

Electric cars 🚗

Alfa Romeo has its sights set on Tesla (3 min)

The Italian luxury automaker is planning to dethrone Tesla in North America by shifting its focus to an all-electric lineup and releasing its first electric car next year.

AI 🤖

Salesforce brings AI to Slack (2 min)

SlackGPT, an AI-powered chatbot for the workplace messaging app, is now available, providing features such as message summaries and note-taking on calls.

StarCoder: The alternative to Copilot (7 min)

Hugging Face and ServiceNow have joined forces to develop a royalty-free alternative to code-generating AI systems. Trained in more than 80 programming languages.

Google's AI-powered privacy tool (4 min)

The company’s long-awaited product, Checks, is now available for mobile developers, allowing them to ensure their apps meet the latest privacy standards easily.

Databricks latest move (4 min)

With the goal of accelerating AI-powered functionality in its own data governance solution called Unity Catalog, the company has decided to acquire the platform Okera.

Is AI a threat to the music industry? (12 min)

Professionals warn artists to stay one step ahead of machines due to concerns over copyrights, and transparency issues caused by AI's sudden rise.

Science ⚗️

The Earth's eventual fate (6 min)

Scientists witnessed a planet get devoured by a dying star, and their observation reveals something about our own solar system's unavoidable fate.

Design 🎨

Chrome's padlock icon gets redesigned (3 min)

Google announces plans to replace the website security padlock icon in Chrome with a "tune" icon, after realizing people misunderstand its purpose.

Miscellaneous 🌐

Verification comes to Gmail (2 min)

A blue checkmark will be added to the sender's name in Google's Gmail to protect users from scammers.