All posts tagged: Assistant

Adobe’s new Firefly AI Assistant wants to run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and more from one prompt

Adobe’s new Firefly AI Assistant wants to run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and more from one prompt

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Adobe today launched its most ambitious AI offensive to date, unveiling the Firefly AI Assistant — a new agentic creative tool that can orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows across the company’s entire Creative Cloud suite from a single conversational interface — alongside a raft of new video, image, and collaboration features designed to position the company at the center of the rapidly evolving AI-powered content creation landscape. The announcements, which also include a new Color Mode for Premiere Pro, the addition of Kling 3.0 video models to Firefly’s growing roster of third-party AI engines, and Frame.io Drive — a virtual filesystem that lets distributed teams work with cloud-stored media as though it lived on their local machines — represent Adobe’s clearest signal yet that it views agentic AI not as a feature upgrade but as a fundamental reshaping of how creative work gets done. “We want creators to tell us the destination and let the Firefly assistant — with its deep understanding of all the Adobe professional tools and generative tools — bring the tools to …

Howard Stern’s former assistant sues, claiming famed radio personality created hostile workplace

Howard Stern’s former assistant sues, claiming famed radio personality created hostile workplace

Published by Daniella Wilson

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Howard Stern’s former assistant is suing the famed radio personality and his wife for allegedly subjecting her to a hostile work environment while employed at their 20,000-square-foot Hamptons estate, according to court filings reviewed by The Independent. In a state lawsuit filed Sunday, Leslie Kuhn, who began working for Stern in 2022 as his office manager at SiriusXM, says she was made the shock jock’s executive assistant the following year, and relocated to Southampton, New York, in 2024 – at the pair’s request – to provide “assistance with such things as managing the staff of the mansion, setting staffing schedules, completing staff payroll and managing general household operations, including Beth Stern’s extensive at-home feline rescue and fostering operations.” Beth Stern is a longtime animal activist who rescues and fosters abandoned dogs and cats, and is the national spokesperson and …

Meet Claude’s Autonomous Desktop Assistant : Computer Use

Meet Claude’s Autonomous Desktop Assistant : Computer Use

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Claude’s ability to control a Mac computer introduces a new dimension to AI-driven task management. Developed by Skill Leap AI, this feature enables the AI to perform actions like clicking, typing and navigating applications, mimicking human input. For instance, the Dispatch feature allows users to manage tasks remotely by connecting their smartphone to their desktop, making sure productivity even while on the move. While this technology offers convenience and flexibility, it also requires specific permissions, such as screen recording and accessibility access, raising important considerations about privacy and security. Explore how Claude can assist with automating repetitive tasks, such as file organization or data entry, while also supporting creative workflows like generating website code or summarizing documents. Gain insight into the practical requirements for using this feature, including its exclusive compatibility with macOS and the need for a paid subscription. You’ll also learn about its current limitations, such as slower task execution and challenges with ambiguous instructions, helping you evaluate whether it fits your needs effectively. How Claude Computer Use Works TL;DR Key Takeaways : …

Who Is Victoria Villarroel? Kylie Jenner’s Former Assistant Shares The Task That Made Her Quit

Who Is Victoria Villarroel? Kylie Jenner’s Former Assistant Shares The Task That Made Her Quit

Published by Jenni Sidey

Kylie Jenner’s former assistant, influencer Victoria Villarroel, finally opened up about why she decided she had to quit working for the star, and proved there was no bad blood between them in the process. On the March 18 episode of her podcast “Better Half with Stas and Vic,” Villarroel shared her life story, from her childhood in Venezuela to her time spent with the famous Jenner family. She explained that she and Jenner became friends while they worked together professionally, and that friendship continues to this day. Villarroel revealed the task Kylie Jenner asked her to do that made her realize it was time to quit. On her podcast, Villarroel explained that she knew it was time to move on when Jenner asked her to grab her laptop, and she simply didn’t want to.  “She was like, ‘Oof, Vic, I need my laptop, and it’s upstairs.’ And I was like, ‘Oof, who’s gonna get that? … I don’t want to get your laptop.’”  That moment told Villarroel a lot. “And I was like, ‘I know, …

Android Auto’s Secret Superpower Is a Customizable Shortcut Button

Android Auto’s Secret Superpower Is a Customizable Shortcut Button

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Even if connecting your Android phone to your car’s dashboard via Android Auto is a daily ritual for you, you may not have explored much beyond the default settings for the interface. You probably just want to get where you’re going, rather than dive through menus and options screens to tweak the Android Auto experience. However, it’s worth familiarizing yourself with a few key Android Auto tweaks that can make your time behind the wheel easier. One of these is the option to add Assistant shortcuts to the Android Auto app screen, so anything you can tell Google Assistant to do, you can put behind a button on your dashboard. We’re currently in the midst of Google moving all of its apps and devices over to Gemini from Google Assistant, but for now the Assistant shortcut option remains in Android Auto—and presumably when the Gemini switch is finally complete, the new voice-controlled AI chatbot will take over the same role on Android Auto. The possibilities for what these shortcuts can do are many and varied. …

Perplexity Launches Comet AI Browser for iPhone With Built-In Assistant

Perplexity Launches Comet AI Browser for iPhone With Built-In Assistant

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Perplexity today expanded its Comet browser to iOS, making its AI Comet Assistant available to iPhone users. The Comet browser for iOS has many of the same features as the Comet browser for the desktop, including a voice mode for speaking questions and a hybrid search experience, but it does lack extensions. Comet offers standard search results like you might expect from any web search, but the added Comet Assistant is able to provide more in-depth answers and complete tasks. Comet supports Perplexity’s Deep Research feature that’s able to ingest information from multiple web sources and provide quick, useful summaries. The Comet Assistant can also complete web-based tasks, like summarizing emails, searching for products, comparing prices across websites, and more. With the new iOS app, Comet works across different devices, so users can start a search on one device and pick it up on another. Perplexity does collect browsing and search history from Comet to create ad-targeting profiles to serve ads to users. Comet was priced at $200 per month when it first launched last …

Mandelson’s assistant sent Epstein government speech before it was delivered | Politics News

Mandelson’s assistant sent Epstein government speech before it was delivered | Politics News

Published by Sam Flores

Peter Mandelson’s ministerial assistant sent Jeffrey Epstein a copy of a government speech before it was delivered to the public, just days after the paedophile financier was released from prison, documents uncovered by Sky News appear to show. The assistant signed off the message as executive assistant to the secretary of state on the email that appears to be sent from a government address to Epstein’s Gmail account. The time of the email says it was sent on 24 July 2009, just two days after Epstein left prison for sexual offending. Politics live: Click here for the latest updates There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on behalf of the assistant. Lord Mandelson is currently under police investigation for misconduct in public office. The email from Lord Mandelson’s assistant to Epstein says: “Peter has asked me to forward you the attached speech he is delivering on Monday. Thanks.” The name of the attached speech is BirkbeckFINAL.doc, and the subject line of the message is HE Speech – a potential reference to higher education. Three days later, …

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

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Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier. The beta version is now available in the app.​ To use the new chatbot, users search for a grocery store in the Uber Eats app and tap the purple Cart Assistant icon on the store’s page to begin shopping.  Customers can enter a list or upload an image of one, and Cart Assistant will automatically add the necessary items to their basket. This includes photos of handwritten lists or screenshots of recipes and their ingredients. Users can then customize the basket by swapping items for preferred brands or adding more products from the store.​ Image Credits:Uber Eats Uber Eats notes that Cart Assistant uses previous orders to prioritize familiar items — like your usual milk or favorite oatmeal — to make the experience more personalized.​ “Users were telling us they wanted a quicker way to shop, and we know how precious your time is,” Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said in a statement. “Cart Assistant …

Is a secure AI assistant possible?

Is a secure AI assistant possible?

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It’s important to note here that prompt injection has not yet caused any catastrophes, or at least none that have been publicly reported. But now that there are likely hundreds of thousands of OpenClaw agents buzzing around the internet, prompt injection might start to look like a much more appealing strategy for cybercriminals. “Tools like this are incentivizing malicious actors to attack a much broader population,” Papernot says.  Building guardrails The term “prompt injection” was coined by the popular LLM blogger Simon Willison in 2022, a couple of months before ChatGPT was released. Even back then, it was possible to discern that LLMs would introduce a completely new type of security vulnerability once they came into widespread use. LLMs can’t tell apart the instructions that they receive from users and the data that they use to carry out those instructions, such as emails and web search results—to an LLM, they’re all just text. So if an attacker embeds a few sentences in an email and the LLM mistakes them for an instruction from its user, …