<span>Story: Here’s Tech Weekly’s deal from Apple and Google to blind glasses.</span><span>:: Technology Weekly</span><span>Apple and Google parent company Alphabet have reached an agreement.</span><span>The iPhone maker will use Google’s Gemini models in an improved version of Siri launching later this year.</span><span>It deepens the two sides’ alliance in the era of artificial intelligence and improves Alphabet’s position in the competition with OpenAI.</span><span>Google’s technology already powers much of Samsung’s Galaxy AI.</span><span>But the Siri deal opens up a huge market, with Apple having more than 2 billion active devices.</span><span>There’s no sign that Apple’s dominance of the global smartphone space has waned.</span><span>Last year, the company led the industry with 20% market share, ahead of only Samsung.</span><span>Leading analyst Counterpoint Research said the company is seeing strong demand from emerging and mid-sized markets.</span><span>Sales of the iPhone 17 series are strong.</span><span>The latest innovations in technology are on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.</span><span>.lumen showcases what it calls glasses for the blind.</span><span>The device is worn on a person’s head and functions similarly to a guide dog.</span><span>The company says the glasses use haptic technology to help blind people carry out daily life.</span><span>and using artificial intelligence to differentiate between safe and unsafe surfaces.</span><span>A new robot taxi design has been unveiled in Las Vegas.</span><span>It is the product of a partnership between electric car maker Lucid, Uber and self-driving car technology company Nuro.</span><span>The car uses Nvidia’s AI driving hardware and can use Nuro’s self-driving technology to drive itself without a human in certain conditions.</span><span>David Salguero is Nuro’s Director of Communications.</span><span>“We use an AI autonomous base model that essentially learns on the fly. So as we drive and test it on the road and in simulations, it gets better and better at driving.”</span><span>The group plans to launch a robotaxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area later this year.</span><span>Artificial intelligence wearables were also on display in Las Vegas.</span><span>Some wearable technologies include rings, jewelry, exoskeletons, and glasses.</span><span>Artificial intelligence jewelry company Nirva showed off products it claims can track your mood and keep a diary of your day.</span><span>Tech company ible has demonstrated noise-cancelling headphones that it says can detect pollution and purify the air in front of you.</span>
