This AI Travel Assistant Saves You Money 🍭

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• AI Travel Assistant Saves You Money

• Merging Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence

• Atlas Gets a Brain Boost

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Discord Fights To Protect Users’ Anonymity In Court ⚖
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AI Travel Concierge
The AI Travel Assistant That Saves You Money 💸

AI Haggler is a newly created web app that checks hotel availability and negotiates the best prices for you.

Just input the hotel phone numbers and the AI agent calls to verify prices, ask about availability, and negotiate discounts for you. Users can view call reports and decide whether or not to book the reservation.

The app offers 10 credits for $5 USD and supports 25 languages, making it accessible for almost anybody. If a hotel doesn’t respond, credits can be redeemed for future use.

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Blockchain and AI are Getting Married 👰

Real-time data instantly informs decisions in areas like banking, healthcare, and navigation. When integrated with AI and blockchain, it powers intelligent contracts that autonomously act on real-world data.

GenLayer's intelligent contracts go beyond traditional smart contracts, enabling decentralized apps (dApps) to automate tasks like insurance payouts and lending based on real-time conditions.

This merging of technologies will reshape how industries operate, making systems smarter and more autonomous.

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Powered by the fastest, most performant speech recognition and voice synthesis models, Deepgram's Voice Agent API delivers:

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AI-Powered Atlas
Atlas by Boston Dynamic Gets a Brain Transplant 🧠

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute are collaborating to integrate artificial intelligence into Atlas, the humanoid robot.

By leveraging TRI’s large behavior models (LBMs), which are similar to large language models, the goal is to enhance the robot’s ability to perform real-world tasks with fewer training cases. 

This partnership is a crucial step toward developing general-purpose robots that can learn and adapt to human tasks autonomously. Tesla’s Optimus has a competitor… 🤖

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X(Formerly Twitter)’s ToS Update Allows AI Training on Your Data: X’s new Terms of Service update gives the platform a worldwide, royalty-free permission to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute your content for any purpose, and the right to use your content for AI and machine learning training for Grok.

French Welfare Algorithm Faces Discrimination Lawsuit: A coalition of human rights groups is suing the French government, claiming its welfare fraud detection algorithm discriminates against disabled people and single mothers. The case challenges privacy and discrimination violations in the use of AI for public services.

Mistral Launches Edge-Focused AI Models For Devices: Mistral unveils its “Les Ministraux” AI models, designed to run on edge devices like laptops and phones. With local, privacy-first processing in mind, these models offer low-latency solutions for tasks like on-device translation and autonomous robotics.

NASA’s Stylish New Space Suits: Prada collaborates with Axiom Space to design spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission. Their innovative approach boosts comfort and performance, merging fashion with space exploration. The AxEMU suit, tailored for lunar conditions, will be used for moonwalks in 2026.

Nintendo 64 Gets a Reboot to 4K Resolution: The Analogue 3D, a modern take on the Nintendo 64, is set to launch in early 2025 at $249.99. It will upscale classic games to 4K and supports original cartridges, controllers, and Bluetooth. You can preorder yours starting October 21st.

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