PADUA, Italy and LONDON, July 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Safilo Group – one of the eyewear industry’s key players in the design, manufacturing and distribution of prescription frames, sunglasses, outdoor eyewear, goggles, and helmets – and Victoria Beckham, Creative Director and Founder of her eponymous brand, announce today their new ten-year global licensing agreement for the design, manufacturing and distribution of the Victoria Beckham branded eyewear collections until December 2035.
PHOTO CREDIT: Hippolyte Petit
The full eyewear range – both optical and sun – will be unveiled for the Spring-Summer 2026 season, hitting the market in January 2026.
“We are excited to welcome to our portfolio one of the industry’s most iconic creative directors. Together, we aim to strengthen the brand’s position as a global eyewear reference in women’s fashion, offering uniquely designed and beautifully crafted pieces that stand out for their attention to detail, minimal design, and sophisticated aesthetics – a luxury proposition empowered by the influence and legacy of Victoria Beckham, who has successfully built and affirmed her brand within the fashion industry” – declared Angelo Trocchia, CEO of Safilo Group. “This collaboration will further enhance the women’s portfolio within Safilo’s brand architecture and strengthen our presence in the luxury segment”.
“I’m thrilled to be working with Safilo to take Victoria Beckham Eyewear to the next level. Their expertise in the field is unparalleled, with a long-standing reputation for exceptional quality and craftsmanship. With their global reach and industry-leading capabilities, I’m excited about the opportunities ahead and can’t wait to bring our shared vision to life,” said Victoria Beckham, the brand’s Creative Director.
About Safilo Group
Safilo is a global player in the eyewear industry that has been creating, producing, and distributing for over 90 years sunglasses, prescription frames, outdoor eyewear, goggles and helmets. Thanks to a data-driven approach, Safilo goes beyond the traditional boundaries of the eyewear industry: in just one company it brings together Italian design, stylistic, technical and industrial innovation, and state-of-the-art digital platforms, developed in its digital hubs in Padua and Portland, and made available to Opticians and Clients for an unmatched customer experience. Guided by its purpose, See the world at its best, Safilo is leading its Group legacy, founded on innovation and responsibility, onwards towards the future.
With an extensive global presence, Safilo’s business model enables it to monitor its entire production and distribution chain. From research and development in five prestigious design studios, located in Padua, Milan, New York, Hong Kong and Portland, to its company-owned production facilities and network of qualified manufacturing partners, Safilo Group ensures that every product offers the perfect fit and meets high quality standards. Reaching approximately 100,000 selected points of sale worldwide with an extensive wholly owned network of subsidiaries in 40 countries and more than 40 partners in 70 countries, Safilo’s well-established traditional wholesale distribution model, which encompasses eyecare retailers, chains, department stores, specialized retailers, boutiques, duty free shops and sporting goods stores, is complemented by Direct-to-Consumer and Internet pure player sales platforms, in line with the Group’s development strategies.
Safilo Group’s portfolio encompasses home brands – Carrera, Polaroid, Smith, Blenders, Privé Revaux and Seventh Street. The perpetual license Eyewear by David Beckham. Licensed brands include: BOSS, Carolina Herrera, Dsquared2, Etro, Fossil, HUGO, Isabel Marant, Juicy Couture, Kate Spade New York, Kurt Geiger, Levi’s, Liz Claiborne, Love Moschino, Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Moschino, Pierre Cardin, PORTS, Stuart Weitzman, Tommy Hilfiger, Tommy Jeans and Under Armour.
The parent company, Safilo Group S.p.A., is listed on the Euronext Milan organized and managed by Borsa Italiana (ISIN code IT0004604762, Bloomberg SFL.IM, Reuters SFLG.MI). In 2024, Safilo Group recorded net revenues for Euro 993.2 million.
About Victoria Beckham
Launched in 2008 with a collection of dresses celebrated for their cut and fit, today Victoria Beckham’s eponymous label brand forms the basis for the modern woman’s wardrobe with perfectly executed silhouettes rooted in a sophisticated ease. A considered blend of classic British luxury and contemporary flair, the brand’s offering is developed at the Victoria Beckham HQ atelier in London and has expanded over the years to include everything from expertly crafted ready-to-wear, accessories and leather goods to award-winning beauty.
Fuelled by a longtime obsession with art and film, worlds from which she often draws inspiration, the transition from designer’s muse to Creative Director of her own brand was a natural one for Victoria Beckham, thanks in part to her meticulous attention to detail and a distinctly luxurious sensibility.
With offices in London and New York and a flagship store in Mayfair, the brand has won critical acclaim alongside multiple industry awards. In addition to victoriabeckham.com, Victoria Beckham is carried in 230 stores in 50 countries worldwide, with dedicated personalised spaces in key department stores.
Contacts:
Safilo Group Investor Relations Barbara Ferrante [email protected] Ph. +39 049 6985766 https://www.safilogroup.com/en/investors
Safilo Group Press Office Elena Todisco [email protected] Mob. +39 339 1919562
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AstraZeneca’s chief executive Pascal Soriot has reportedly said that he would like to shift the company’s stock market listing from the UK to the US.
The boss of Britain’s most valuable listed company has spoken privately about a preference to move the listing to New York, the Times reported. It added that he had also considered moving the company’s domicile.
The FTSE 100 company’s share price rose by 2.8% on Tuesday, with most of the increase happening after the story was published.
A shift in AstraZeneca’s listing would deal a major blow to the London Stock Exchange, which has already had to deal with a series of departures by companies seeking higher valuations. Among those who have left the FTSE 100 in recent years are equipment rental company Ashtead, Paddy Power bookmaker owner Flutter Entertainment, building materials supplier CRH and packaging company Smurfit Westrock.
A shift by AstraZeneca would almost certainly face opposition by the UK government, although it would not have the power to formally block a move. Labour made life sciences one of its key growth sectors in its industrial strategy published last month.
A spokesperson for AstraZeneca declined to comment.
AstraZeneca is thought to have expressed frustrations privately with the rejection of its breast cancer drug, Enhertu, by the NHS on cost grounds. Earlier this year, the company, headquartered in Cambridge, caused consternation in government by pulling out of a £450m project to produce vaccines in Speke, Liverpool, while saying that the business case did not make sense without more financial support from government.
Soriot has overseen the market value of AstraZeneca more than tripling since he took over in October 2012. The company has overtaken oil company Shell – also seen as a contender for a move to the US – and HSBC, a bank, with a market value of £157bn.
The US is the world’s biggest pharmaceutical market, with by far the highest spending per person on medicines despite having a lower life expectancy than several other countries. UK executives have long complained that their companies are undervalued compared with American counterparts.
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Soriot has emphasised the company’s ambitions to grow in the US. In November, he told investors that “we want to see even more growth in the US over the next few years as part of our 2030 ambition,” according to a transcript from data company Alphasense. The “US is, of course, a very important market and that supports innovation, and we will continue to invest to grow fast in this part of the world,” Soriot said.
The chief executive’s pay has increased in line with AstraZeneca’s market value. He has been the highest-paid chief executive on the FTSE 100 for two years running, receiving £16.85m for 2023, up from £15.3m in 2022.
LONDON (Reuters) -Trading of derivatives contracts that provide investors with protection against UK company defaults jumped almost 50% in the first quarter of 2025 to more than $2 trillion, an International Swaps and Derivatives Association report showed on Tuesday.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Credit default swaps trading reported in the UK rose by 47% to $2.3 trillion, from $1.5 trillion in the first quarter of 2024, trade body ISDA reported.
The volume of insurance protection investors took out on UK corporate bonds in the first quarter illustrates the scale of unease ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping import tariffs on April 2.
While a UK/U.S. trade deal has since been signed, tariff uncertainty is a headwind for corporates globally as a July 9 U.S. deadline for other countries to strike deals looms.
The effective U.S. tariff rate based on announced policies has climbed to 13% from 3% at the start of the year, Goldman Sachs analysts said last week.
Even if some of the harshest levies are rolled back, higher effective tariffs this year could still drive up inflation and cut into company profits and consumer spending.
KEY QUOTE
“Single-name CDS activity was particularly prevalent in the UK, making up 98% of European traded notional, compared to 2% in the EU,” the ISDA report said.
This week, trade tensions topped a list of investor concerns alongside deepening worries over a potential global recession, a Bank of America investor survey showed on Monday.
BY THE NUMBERS
Notional European CDS trading rose 28% to $3 trillion in the first quarter compared to $2.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2024, driven by heightened activity in index CDS, ISDA said.
UK-reported trades represented roughly 75% of total European CDS notional trading, and almost 82% of the total trade count, while the EU accounted for around 25% and 18%, respectively, the report said.
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(Reporting by Nell Mackenzie. Editing by Dhara Ranasinghe and Mark Potter)
The Federal Reserve would have cut interest rates by now if President Donald Trump’s tariffs weren’t so substantial, central bank chief Jerome Powell said Tuesday.
Trump’s ever-changing tariff agenda has caused months of deep uncertainty for global markets and businesses. Many have struggled to make predictions and plan ahead for duties that have shifted, sometimes with no warning other than social media posts by the president.
“Chair, would the Fed have cut [rates] more by now if it weren’t for the tariffs?” Bloomberg News anchor Francine Lacqua asked Powell at the European Central Bank’s annual forum in Sintra, Portugal.
“So I do think that’s right,” Powell responded. “In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs, and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs. We didn’t overreact. In fact we didn’t react at all, we’re simply taking some time.”
The Fed chair’s comments underscored a stance he has stuck to despite unrelenting, norm-shattering attacks by Trump and his top allies urging the central bank to lower interest rates. The pressure campaign has led Powell to repeatedly defend the central bank’s independence from political influence — a position the Supreme Court appeared to bolster in a ruling last month — along with the decision to hold rates steady.
“As long as the U.S. economy is in solid shape, the prudent thing to do is to wait and learn more and see what the effect might be,” Powell said Tuesday. “We haven’t seen effects much from tariffs, and we didn’t expect to by now. We have always said the timing, amount and persistence would be highly uncertain.” He added that the import taxes’ ultimate impact on the economy could wind up being either greater or less than currently anticipated.
Hours after Powell’s remarks, Trump renewed his rebukes of him, telling reporters in Florida that “anybody” would be better than him as head of the central bank.
Powell declined to weigh in on the likelihood of a July rate cut: “It’s going to depend on the data.”
Asked about the impact of Trump’s insult-laden criticism, Powell said, “I’m very focused on just doing my job.” He said the only two things that matter to him and fellow rate-setting officials are full employment and price stability — the two sides of the Fed’s so-called “dual mandate.” The ECB conference attendees applauded his response.
Trump has expanded his attacks on Powell to the committee that sets interest rates, saying on Monday that its members should be “ashamed” of current U.S. monetary policy. “The Board just sits there and watches, so they are equally to blame. We should be paying 1% Interest, or better,” Trump posted on social media.
In fact, the Federal Open Market Committee members vote during each of their meetings on whether to adjust interest rates after spending a day deliberating. Afterward, many voting members often explain their rationale for supporting or opposing the committee’s decision, including in speeches or written papers.
Trump appointed Powell to lead the Fed during his first term in office. He also named two of its current board members, Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller.
Asked in Sintra how she would handle political pressure akin to what Powell has faced, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said, “I think we would do exactly the same thing as our colleague Jay Powell does.” Other panelists, who included governors of the central banks of Korea and Japan, said they agreed with Lagarde, drawing further applause.
Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said administration officials have discussed appointing the next Fed chair to the earliest board seat available. The term of Biden-appointee Adriana Kugler ends in January 2026, meaning “an October, November” nomination, according to Bessent.
Powell would not say Tuesday whether he planned to remain on the board of the Federal Reserve System after his term as chair ends in May 2026. He could remain as a board member until January 2028, if he chooses to.
“I want to hand over to my successor an economy in good shape,” Powell said.
CORRECTION (July 1, 2024, 1:40 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when Powell’s term ends as Fed chairman. It is in May 2026, not May 2025.
PARIS (Reuters) -New car registrations in France slid 6.7% in June from a year earlier to 169,504 vehicles, data from French car body PFA showed on Tuesday.
Tesla sales fell 10.04% to 3,646 vehicles last month. Since the beginning of the year, Tesla’s sales have slumped by 39.59% while the French market overall has shrunk by 7.94% over the same period.
(Reporting by Makini Brice, Editing by Dominique vidalon)
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Ken Griffin’s hedge fund Citadel has been outshone by smaller rivals so far this year, as the firm was stung by the market volatility unleashed by Donald Trump’s trade war.
Citadel’s flagship Wellington fund gained 2.5 per cent in the first half of 2025, according to a person familiar with the matter. Balyasny and ExodusPoint were up 7.3 per cent and 9.3 per cent respectively, according to people who have seen the figures.
Citadel, which manages around $66bn, is one of the dominant players among so-called multi-manager funds, a sector that has sucked in billions of dollars from the world’s largest investors. Balyasny and ExodusPoint manage roughly $25bn and $11bn respectively.
Multi-manager firms have legions of trading teams known as “pods”, which trade a variety of strategies in asset classes including equities, fixed income and commodities. They borrow large sums from banks to juice returns and adhere to strict risk management to control losses, making them attractive to big investors such as pension funds that desire stable returns.
Citadel was wrongfooted by Trump’s tariff policies earlier this year, with Griffin saying in May that the firm had to “tear apart and re-examine the portfolio . . . and ask yourself in what ways we have positioned or mispositioned ourselves against the reality that the odds of a recession have gone higher”.
Last year, Citadel eclipsed most rivals as it delivered 15.1 per cent to investors. It’s annualised net return since the firm was founded 35 years ago is roughly 19.2 per cent.
Detainment at the border. Costly handover fees. Elongated lead times. These are just three common challenges associated with an inefficient customs process. But what if a simple process change could help you avoid these issues?
When you book ocean shipments with Maersk, you can add customs to your booking at the same time and help your supply chain be ready for anything. Below, we focus on three companies who did just that and explore the competitive advantages this brought them.
Rooting out the hidden costs associated with customs
To many businesses, customs is just a transaction. Based on the type of product you’re shipping and where you’re shipping to customs duties, VAT or other import taxes can impact the total cost of the shipment.
But in the context of a global supply chain, processing the goods through customs only make up a small part of the financial story. There are other costs that might be hiding within the process. For example, if you use one third-party provider for shipping and another for customs handling, handover fees might also be associated with the cargo’s journey from origin to end destination. The bigger your operations, the more these handover fees can escalate.
These costs can be found in what McKinsey & Company calls “blind handovers” in the supply chain. Analysis from the consulting firm finds that between 13-19% of logistics costs could stem from these interactions. In the UK alone, such supply chain inefficiencies cost the economy over £12 billion in lost revenue per year.
McKinsey analysis finds that between 13 and 19% of logistics costs could stem from inefficient supply chain interactions.
In relation to customs handling , the implications from blind handovers could include demurrage and detention fees or additional transport costs if original pick-up slots were missed, which could then result in missed sales opportunities. However, when you add customs to your ocean shipments with Maersk, you reduce the risk of delays and hidden costs considerably.
One company that benefits from this approach is world-leading automotive manufacturer, TATA Motors. With an integrated logistics solution that includes both ocean and customs, centred on “timely clearances and efficient coordination,” TATA can stick to the agreed timelines for deliveries to a range of overseas markets.
This partnership now forms the backbone of our seamless operations, enabling us to meet the demands in all markets within stipulated lead times, while simultaneously maintaining quality and optimising costs.
Keeping your supply chain moving
In addition to the financial implications of blind handovers, the inefficiencies can also significantly impact the speed and flow of a supply chain.
The need to manage multiple third parties and oversee your cargo changing hands introduces the risk of delays into the process; whereas when you book ocean and customs together, you ensure smooth and efficient customs handling. In fact, Maersk’s customs specialists can prepare your customs documents ahead of your cargo arriving at the border, to minimize the risk of hold ups to your supply chain.
Take frozen fruit snack disruptor Pukpip, for instance. The brand needs to transport frozen bananas from Ecuador to the UK in perfect condition so that they can turn them into their range of delicious frozen fruit snacks.
To make this possible, Pukpip books their Maersk Ocean shipments online, and because they can add customs to the service, Maersk is able to process the documentation at the right time and ensure the cargo is released quickly when it arrives in the UK.
Pukpip Founder, Zara Godfrey, had this to say on the business results: “It’s easier, especially when you’re a small brand, to have one partner do both ocean freight and customs. We trust Maersk to collect the goods, which will arrive on time in great condition, and clear customs. Plus if there are ever any short delays at customs, Maersk ensure the goods are never left to melt.”
Simplifying your supply chain responsibilities
Perhaps the most obvious advantage of this integrated approach is that you get one point of contact for your customs clearance needs.
With a one-stop shop for ocean and customs bookings, it becomes easier to manage your operations, increasing control by reducing your administrative workload and providing more time to focus on higher-value activities.
For Norwegian retailer Europris, this control was critical to consolidating supply chain operations. The discounter wanted a logistics partner that could handle both their ocean and customs requirements, and with Maersk’s digital solutions they enhanced control over cargo flows and allowed for timely compliance.
This integrated approach has helped us streamline our supply chain processes, stay on top of demand and reduce much of the hassle associated with having multiple logistics partners.
Partner with Maersk for a seamless supply chain
Timely customs processes are vital for the flow of a supply chain, and essential for goods being able to pass efficiently through ports. Yet often, this activity is managed separately from ocean shipments, and this can introduce unnecessary risks to operations.
As the customer testimonials in this article have shown, adding customs to ocean bookings is a simple but effective way of minimising your administrative burden and the risk of additional costs and delays.
By partnering with Maersk for both your customs and ocean transport needs, you can benefit from our deep multidisciplinary expertise, global reach and network of owned assets, enabling you to streamline your supply chain and increase speed over the border with total confidence.
To find out how our experts can support you with your customs challenges, touch base with us.
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. If you need me after this newsletter publishes, I will be busy poring over photos from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding, the gaudiest and most star-studded affair to disrupt technology news this year. I found it a tacky and spectacular affair. Everyone who was anyone was there, except for Charlize Theron, who, unprompted, said on Monday: “I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding. But that’s OK, because they suck and we’re cool.”
AI companies start winning the copyright fight
Last week, tech companies notched several victories in the fight over their use of copyrighted text to create artificial intelligence products.
Anthropic: A US judge has ruled that Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, use of books to train its artificial intelligence system – without permission of the authors – did not breach copyright law. Judge William Alsup compared the Anthropic model’s use of books to a “reader aspiring to be a writer.”
And the next day, Meta: The US district judge Vince Chhabria, in San Francisco, said in his decision on the Meta case that the authors had not presented enough evidence that the technology company’s AI would cause “market dilution” by flooding the market with work similar to theirs.
The same day that Meta received its favorable ruling, a group of writers sued Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement in the creation of that company’s Megatron text generator. Judging by the rulings in favor of Meta and Anthropic, the authors are facing an uphill battle.
These three cases are skirmishes in the wider legal war over copyrighted media, which rages on. Three weeks ago, Disney and NBC Universal sued Midjourney, alleging that the company’s namesake AI image generator and forthcoming video generator made illegal use of the studios’ iconic characters like Darth Vader and the Simpson family. The world’s biggest record labels – Sony, Universal, and Warner – have sued two companies that make AI-powered music generators, Suno and Udio. On the textual front, the New York Times’ suit against OpenAI and Microsoft is ongoing.
The lawsuits over AI-generated text were filed first, and, as their rulings emerge, the next question in the copyright fight is whether decisions about one type of media will apply to the next.
“The specific media involved in the lawsuit – written works versus images versus videos versus audio – will certainly change the fair use analysis in each case,” said John Strand, a trademark and copyright attorney with the law firm Wolf Greenfield. “The impact on the market for the copyrighted works is becoming a key factor in the fair use analysis, and the market for books is different than that for movies.”
To Strand, the cases over images seem more favorable to copyright holders, as the AI models are allegedly producing identical images to the copyrighted ones in the training data.
A bizarre and damning fact was revealed in the Anthropic ruling, too: the company had pirated and stored some 7m books to create a training database for its AI. To remediate its wrongdoing, the company bought physical copies and scanned them, digitizing the text. Now the owner of 7 million physical books that no longer held any utility, Anthropic destroyed them. The company bought the books, diced them up, scanned the text, and threw them away, Ars Technica reports. There are less destructive ways to digitize books, but they are slower. The AI industry is here to move fast and break things.
Anthropic laying waste to millions of books presents a crude literalization of the ravenous consumption of content necessary for AI companies to create their products.
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An update on last week’s stories: Trump’s phone
Composite: The Guardian/Getty/Trump Mobile/Trump Watches/Ebay
Two stories I wrote about last week saw significant updates in the ensuing days.
The website for Trump’s gold phone, “T1”, has dropped its “Made in America” pledge in favor of “proudly American” and “brought to life in America”, per the Verge.
Trump seems to have followed the example of Apple, which skirts the issue of origin but still emphasizes the American-ness of iPhones by engraving them with “Designed in California.” What is unsaid: Assembled in China or India, and sourced from many other countries. It seems Trump and his family have opted for a similar evasive tagline, though it’s been thrown into much starker relief by their original promise.
The third descriptor that now appears on Trump’s phone site, “American-Proud Design”, seems most obviously cued by Apple.
The tagline “Made in the USA” carries legal weight. Companies have faced lawsuits over just how many of their products’ parts were produced in the US, and the US’ main trade regulator has established standards by which to judge the actions behind the slogan. It would be extremely difficult for a smartphone’s manufacturing history to measure up to those benchmarks, by the vast majority of expert estimations.
Though Trump intends to repatriate manufacturing in the US with his sweeping tariffs, he seems to be learning just what other phone companies already know. It is complicated and limiting to make a phone solely in the US, and doing so forces severe constraints on the final product.
Read last week’s newsletter about the gold Trump phone.
… and online age checks
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Last week, I wrote about Pornhub’s smutty return to France after a law requiring online age verification was suspended there. This week, the US supreme court ruled in favor of an age-check law passed in Texas. Pornhub has blocked access to anyone in Texas in protest for the better part of two years, as it did in France for three weeks. Clarence Thomas summed up the court’s reasoning:
“HB 1181 simply requires adults to verify their age before they can access speech that is obscene to children,” Clarence Thomas wrote in the court’s 6-3 majority opinion. “The statute advances the state’s important interest in shielding children from sexually explicit content. And, it is appropriately tailored because it permits users to verify their ages through the established methods of providing government-issued identification and sharing transactional data.”
Elena Kagan dissented alongside the court’s two other liberal justices.
The ruling affirms not only Texas’s law but the statutes of nearly two dozen states that have implemented online age checks. The tide worldwide seems to be shifting away from allowing freer access to pornography as part of a person’s right to free expression and more towards curtailing
Experts believe the malleable definition of obscenity – the Texas law requires an age check for any site whose content is more than a third sexual material – will be weaponized against online information on sexual health, abortion or LGBTQ identity, all in the name of child protection.
“It’s an unfortunate day for the supporters of an open internet,” said GS Hans, professor at Cornell Law School. “The court has made a radical shift in free speech jurisprudence in this case, though it doesn’t characterize its decision that way. By upholding the limits on minors’ access to obscenity – a notoriously difficult category to define – that also creates limits on adult access, we can expect to see states take a heavier hand in regulating content.”
I’ll be closely watching what happens in July when Pornhub willingly implements age checks in compliance with the Online Services Act.
Read more: UK study shows 8% of children aged eight to 14 have viewed online pornography
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This week in AI: new WhatsApp summaries and Nobel winners’ genomic model
The WhatsApp logo. Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP
New features are a dime a dozen, but even a small tweak to the most popular messaging app in the world may amount to a major shift. WhatsApp will begin showing you AI-generated summaries of your unread messages, per the Verge.
Apple tried message summaries. They did not work. The company pulled them. For a firm famed for its calculated and controlled releases, the retraction of the summaries was a humiliation. The difference between Apple and Meta, though, is that Meta has consistently released AI products for multiple years now.
In other AI news, I am rarely captivated by new technologies, but a recent release by Google’s DeepMind AI laboratory seems promising for healthcare. Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome, an AI meant to “comprehensively and accurately predicts how single variants or mutations in human DNA sequences impact a wide range of biological processes regulating genes,” per a press release. The creators of AlphaGenome previously won the Nobel prize in chemistry for AlphaFold, a software that predicts the structures of proteins.
A major question that hovers over Crispr, another Nobel-winning innovation, is what changes in a person when a genetic sequence is modified. AlphaGenome seems poised to assist in solving that mystery.
