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China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/china-ev-ai-fea…

China’s EV price war turns into AI arms race beyond cheaper cars
Chinese EV firms are rapidly rolling out in-car AI features to gain an edge, but as the price war drags on, those technologies are quickly becoming commoditized.

Raiders among teams to be featured on ESPN 'The Pick is In' documentary https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/01/raiders-browns-cowboys-featured-es…

A profile of CBS' Tony Dokoupil: his start at Newsweek and NBC News, the shift to on-camera work, and ex-colleagues' surprise at some of his current coverage (Amos Barshad/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/whats-up-with-

What’s up with Tony Dokoupil?
How Tony Dokoupil went from being a hair model to a print journalist to the anchor of CBS Evening News, guided by the principle “We love America.”

Varant Zanoyan (co-founder of Zipline AI, creator of Chronon at Airbnb) is joining #bbuzz26 to talk feature chaining and keeping training and serving in sync at scale.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/real-time-ml-pipelines-feature-chaining-with-chronon/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5, including a 6x Multi Frame Generation feature exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs that utilizes a second-gen transformer AI model (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/903934/nvidia-dlss-4-5-multi-frame-gen…

Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 update with new frame generation features
Nvidia has launched the next major update for its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) feature, introducing AI-powered frame generation modes.

AirPods Max 2 review: comfortable, excellent sound quality, and lots of new features, but retains the same design, pricey, and only one hearing health feature (Billy Steele/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/apple-ai…

Apple AirPods Max 2 review: Better late than never
The H2 chip delivers a host of new features for the AirPods Max 2, but it's time for a comprehensive redesign on these pricey headphones.

Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth
(Un)officially delayed to 2027, Venice comes first.

Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/slack-adds-ai-meeting-not…

Slack adds AI meeting notes and a desktop AI agent
For years, Slack has been where teams go to communicate. Now, it's setting its sights on something bigger: replacing your favorite AI apps without you...

Amazon launches "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/amaz

Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages | TechCrunch
Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.

Twitch rolls out Dual Format, a feature that lets creators stream horizontally and vertically simultaneously, and 2K streaming for partners and affiliates (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2184452/twitch-cr

Twitch creators will soon be able to stream in horizontal and vertical formats simultaneously - Engadget
The company announced the new Dual Format feature alongside other updates at TwitchCon Europe.