Adobe announced a new multimodal capability for its Acrobat AI Assistant that can analyze legal documents to “demystify complex language, summarize key terms and identify differences across multiple contracts,” all with a single click. It’s called, unsurprisingly, Contracts AI.
Contracts is capable of interpreting both digital and scanned documents, automatically identifying contracts as such. The system then “tailors the experience, generating a contract overview, surfacing key terms in a single click … and recommending questions specific to customers’ documents,” according to the announcement post.
The AI will also create summaries of the contract’s contents, presenting that information to the user in clear and concise language with clickable, verifiable citations. The system can review up to 10 different contracts at a time, allowing the user to quickly find and address discrepancies between them. Users can even e-sign their completed contracts directly within the Acrobat app itself.
The company recently conducted a “survey” of Acrobat users that found nearly 70% of consumers and more than 60% of small and medium business owners have, at some point, signed contracts without knowing or understanding all of the stipulated terms. “Contracts AI makes agreements easier to understand and compare and citations help customers verify responses, all while keeping their data safe,” Abhigyan Modi, SVP of Adobe Document Cloud, said in a press release.
Per Adobe, Acrobat’s AI features “are governed by data security protocols and developed in alignment with Adobe’s AI Ethics processes.” As such, the company does not train its generative models using its customer data and bans third-party developers from using Adobe data on models of their own. The new Contracts feature is available as a $5 per month add-on subscription through either the free Reader app or the paid Acrobat app. It’s currently only accessible on the desktop and web in English. The company is working to expand the AI’s language options but has not specified a timeline for that yet.
Mozilla is giving Firefox’s Smart Window two new tricks. If you haven’t tried it yet, Smart Window is an optional AI mode in Firefox with a built-in chat that helps you get things done while you browse. With this update, it can fill out online forms using details from your tabs and keep an eye on websites for you.
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The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
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"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.