https://thelettertwo.com Analysis on tech news from a journalist with a marketing perspective Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:56:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://i0.wp.com/thelettertwo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-TLT_favicon_512x512_color-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://thelettertwo.com 32 32 214271315 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/29/canva-brush-ai-design-editing-model/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/29/canva-brush-ai-design-editing-model/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:16:42 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34497

Canva spent the past week showing off an AI model that creates images, and now it’s turning to the harder task of reworking them. On Thursday, the company introduced Brush, an in-house vision-language model built to edit designs. Because Brush reads both what’s in a design and how it’s arranged, Canva AI users can make […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/29/canva-brush-ai-design-editing-model/feed/ 0 34497 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/28/github-universe-copilot-fusion-picks-best-ai-model-each-task/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/28/github-universe-copilot-fusion-picks-best-ai-model-each-task/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:10:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34470

Somewhere in prehistory, someone figured out how to make fire, showed others, and watched the knowledge spread until anyone could summon a flame. Mario Rodriguez, GitHub’s chief product officer, considers it probably the first open source project on Earth, and he sees that same instinct to share and remix at the heart of everything his […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/28/github-universe-copilot-fusion-picks-best-ai-model-each-task/feed/ 0 34470 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/27/oracle-openai-partnership-coming-out-party/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/27/oracle-openai-partnership-coming-out-party/#respond Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34465

Oracle has become one of OpenAI’s most important infrastructure partners. The AI company trained its GPT-6 Astra model at Oracle’s Abilene, Texas, data center site, the flagship campus of Stargate, the $500 billion data center venture OpenAI formed with Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX. Karan Batta, who runs product for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), described the […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/27/oracle-openai-partnership-coming-out-party/feed/ 0 34465 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/27/sap-rpt-2-tabular-ai-models/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/27/sap-rpt-2-tabular-ai-models/#respond Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34459

For nearly a year, SAP has relied on a single general-purpose AI model to make predictions from business data rows and columns. At its annual TechEd conference this week, the company expanded that lineup with SAP-RPT-2, a next-generation model, and two specialized models for forecasting and decision-making. First introduced in November 2025, SAP’s Relational Pre-Trained […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/27/sap-rpt-2-tabular-ai-models/feed/ 0 34459 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/23/canva-craft-ai-image-model/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/23/canva-craft-ai-image-model/#respond Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:40:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34451

For the past year, Canva has worked to become what it calls a creative operating system: a single platform where AI, design, and productivity come together. To make that idea a reality, the company has been developing its own models to handle everything from style transfer to video generation faster and more cheaply than frontier […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/23/canva-craft-ai-image-model/feed/ 0 34451 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/22/aws-sagemaker-training-sessions/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/22/aws-sagemaker-training-sessions/#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:39:57 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34446

Amazon Web Services (AWS) now lets machine learning engineers, applied researchers, and data scientists write the training code for their AI models while the company supplies the computing power. On Thursday, AWS made a feature called training sessions generally available in Amazon SageMaker, expanding a service that lets customers fine-tune open-weight models without managing hardware. […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/22/aws-sagemaker-training-sessions/feed/ 0 34446 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/22/ai2-olmoearth-v1-3-satellite-embeddings/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/22/ai2-olmoearth-v1-3-satellite-embeddings/#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34431

For two years, gold miners moved through the rainforest along the edge of Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve, clearing more than 1,200 hectares around a settlement called La Pampa, according to Amazon Conservation’s MAAP monitoring program. In February 2019, the country’s government launched a crackdown to shut down the mining operations. Since then, conservationists have asked […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/22/ai2-olmoearth-v1-3-satellite-embeddings/feed/ 0 34431 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/21/gm-onstar-ai-assistant-gemini/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/21/gm-onstar-ai-assistant-gemini/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34413

Thirty years ago at the Chicago Auto Show, General Motors introduced OnStar, an optional in-vehicle service that paired a built-in cell phone and GPS satellite technology with round-the-clock access to a live advisor. GM sold it as peace of mind on the road, a way for drivers and their families to get help after a […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/21/gm-onstar-ai-assistant-gemini/feed/ 0 34413 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/19/slack-frontline-salesforce-deskless-workers/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/19/slack-frontline-salesforce-deskless-workers/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34407

Roughly 80 percent of the world’s workers don’t sit at a desk. They stock shelves, ship orders, and care for patients in their homes, and they’re often the only people a customer ever meets from a company. Yet much of the conversation about workplace collaboration and artificial intelligence has centered on the other 20 percent, […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/19/slack-frontline-salesforce-deskless-workers/feed/ 0 34407 https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/07/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-live-blog/ https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/07/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-live-blog/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://thelettertwo.com/?p=34292

When Satya Nadella takes the stage in San Francisco on Wednesday, he’s expected to show off the Surface Laptop Ultra, the latest step in Microsoft’s push to bring AI directly into the PCs it sells. He’ll be joined by Pavan Davuluri, executive vice president overseeing Windows and devices, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose RTX […]]]> https://thelettertwo.com/2026/10/07/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-live-blog/feed/ 0 34292