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Today, Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) launched a free new tool that helps you prompt Open AI’s ChatGPT faster and more fluently while staying in the flow of your work. Logi AI Prompt Builder is a software window that pops up via the Logi Options+ app at the touch of a button, transforming your Logitech keyboard and mouse into a shortcut to the limitless power of AI.
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Logitech also took a step further today, launching a new wireless mouse with its own dedicated AI prompt button: the Logitech Signature AI Edition Mouse.
“As the bridge between people and their digital experiences, Logitech has a critical role to play in the evolution of AI, both with new innovation and our existing portfolio,” said Delphine Donné, general manager of the Personal Workspace business at Logitech. “New Logi AI Prompt Builder is a shortcut to AI fluency for anyone with a Logitech mouse or keyboard compatible with Logi Options+ software who wants easily to access AI’s limitless potential. It is just one example of Logitech’s innovation around the many opportunities AI offers. ChatGPT alone is seeing approximately 1.6 billion visits each month - a reflection of AI’s ability to enhance and accelerate people’s productivity and creativity.”
How to access
Logi AI Prompt Builder can be accessed by anyone with a Logitech keyboard or mouse supported by the English language version of the Logi Options+ app, including Logitech MX, Ergo, Signature and Studio Series devices. Within the app, you can identify a shortcut key on your keyboard or a mouse button that will open and close the tool whenever you need.
Alternatively, with the new Logitech Signature AI Edition Mouse, you have a dedicated AI prompt button that serves as a shortcut to Logi AI Prompt Builder, bringing direct access to its benefits.
How it works
The Logi AI Prompt Builder software window pops up, automatically capturing text you’ve selected to work with and offering pre-defined recipes of commonly used queries, such as Rephrase and Summarize. You can also customize your own queries, and define what kind of tone, style, complexity or length you want the final answer to be. This saves you time and clicks, with virtually no disruption to your workflow. For a demonstration of how it works, visit Logitech’s website.
Pricing and availability
Beginning today, the Logi AI Prompt Builder software window can be accessed for free by Windows and Mac users via the Logi Options+ app.
The Logitech Signature AI Edition Mouse will be available this month exclusively on Logitech.com in the United States and the United Kingdom for $49.99 and £54.99 respectively.
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Logi AI Prompt Builder launched today from Logitech, a free new tool that helps you prompt Open AI’s ChatGPT faster and more fluently while staying in the flow of your work. (Graphic: Business Wire)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City's main casino workers union and the New Jersey attorney general on Monday asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a different union that seeks to ban smoking at the city's nine casinos.
Local 54 of the Unite Here union said in a filing in state Superior Court that a third of the 10,000 workers it represents would be at risk of losing their jobs and the means to support their families if smoking were banned.
Currently, smoking is allowed on 25% of the casino floor. But those areas are not contiguous, and the practical effect is that secondhand smoke is present in varying degrees throughout the casino floor.
A lawsuit brought earlier this month by the United Auto Workers, which represents dealers at the Bally’s, Caesars and Tropicana casinos, seeks to overturn New Jersey's indoor smoking law, which bans it in virtually every workplace except casinos.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, representing Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and the state health department, said the state's indoor smoking law does not deny any group of people equal protection under the law “and does not infringe on any purported constitutional right to safety,” urging the court to dismiss it.
Nancy Erika Smith, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit, reacted incredulously to the request by Local 54.
“I have never seen a union fight against the health and safety of their members, not once," she said. “Luckily, Unite's economic arguments, while false, have absolutely no relevance to the constitutional question at hand.”
Donna DeCaprio is president of Local 54, which represents hotel workers, beverage servers, baggage handlers, public area cleaners and other workers at the nine casinos.
“We support the health and safety of our members, and believe that improvements to the current work environment must be made,” she said Monday. “A balance needs to be reached that will both protect worker health and preserve good jobs.”
DeCaprio said a total smoking ban would be “catastrophic” for Atlantic City, adding that between 50 to 72% of all gambling revenue won from in-person gamblers comes from smoking sections.
The union endorses legislation introduced earlier this year that would keep the current 25% limit of the casino floor on which smoking can occur.
But it would allow smoking in unenclosed areas of the casino floor that contain slot machines and are designated as smoking areas that are more than 15 feet away from table games staffed by live dealers. It also would allow the casinos to offer smoking in enclosed, separately ventilated smoking rooms with the proviso that no worker can be assigned to work in such a room against their will.
Whether to ban smoking is one of the most controversial issues not only in Atlantic City casinos, but in other states where workers have expressed concern about secondhand smoke. They are waging similar campaigns in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Kansas and Virginia.
“A total smoking ban would place thousands of jobs at risk, endangering the wages, health and welfare benefits and retirement benefits of Local 54 members and their families,” the union wrote in its court filing.
It noted that in 2008, when Atlantic City's City Council imposed a short-lived total smoking ban, casino revenues fell by 19.8%, within the first week, leading to the enactment of the current 25% smoking area on the casino floors.
These workers, including many table games dealers, say that going smoke-free would actually attract enough customers to more than offset the loss of smokers who go elsewhere.
Nicole Vitola, a Borgata dealer and one of the leaders of the anti-smoking push, accused Local 54 of being the same as casino management.
“Instead of fighting for the health and safety of workers, Local 54 is battling in a court of law to allow casinos to keep poisoning their members with toxic secondhand smoke,” she said.
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Casino workers in favor of banning smoking in Atlantic City demonstrate outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Atlantic City's main casino workers union asked a judge to let it intervene in that lawsuit. (AP Photo/Wayne
A gambler lights a cigarette at a slot machine in Harrah's casino in Atlantic City N.J., on Sept. 29, 2023. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Atlantic City's main casino workers union asked a judge to let it intervene in that lawsuit. (AP Photo/Wayne
Nancy Erika Smith, the lawyer for Atlantic City casino workers seeking to end smoking in the gambling halls speaks outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J., on April 5, 2024, after filing a lawsuit seeking to force a smoking ban. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Atlantic City's main casino workers union asked a judge to let it intervene in that lawsuit. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Casino workers in favor of banning smoking in Atlantic City demonstrate outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Atlantic City's main casino workers union asked a judge to let it intervene in that lawsuit. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Casino workers in favor of banning smoking in Atlantic City demonstrate outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J., April 5, 2024, after filing a lawsuit seeking to force a smoking ban. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Atlantic City's main casino workers union asked a judge to let it intervene in that lawsuit. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
