Canonical announced Myna, a lightweight AI-powered speech-to-text tool for Ubuntu, set to debut in Ubuntu 26.10 in October. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth aims to position the distro as the operatin…
Canonical announced Myna, an upcoming speech-to-text dictation tool for Ubuntu Desktop that runs entirely on local hardware, respecting user privacy. The initial version for Ubuntu 26.10 will feature …
Canonical announced Myna, a new speech-to-text AI system for Ubuntu Linux, as part of its accessibility efforts.…
Canonical announced Myna, a speech-to-text solution for the Ubuntu desktop, with initial support for local dictation in Ubuntu 26.10. The open-source project uses on-device AI models and aims to provi…
Canonical is adapting its security processes to address the increased volume and speed of AI-generated vulnerability discoveries, including those from frontier models like Mythos and GPT-5.5. The comp…
Canonical engineer Farshid Tavakolizadeh demonstrated how to build a local AI inference appliance using Ubuntu Core 26 in a virtual machine, leveraging Multipass and the gemma4 snap. The tutorial show…
Cisco and Canonical have released a new Cisco Validated Design (CVD) that combines Canonical's open-source software stack with Cisco's Unified Edge hardware to simplify AI deployment at the network ed…
Canonical engineer Asa Mirzaieva demonstrated how to deploy optimized AI models on Renesas RZ/V series hardware using Ubuntu Core 26 and the Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor for AI (DRP-AI). The w…
Canonical plans to integrate AI-powered speech-to-text into all text fields across Ubuntu, allowing users to dictate input instead of typing. Ubuntu 26.10 will include a button to enable voice input i…
Canonical announced plans to ship newer AMD ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs) for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, addressing the current inclusion of the months-old ROCm 7.1. The company aims to delive…
Canonical and AMD have integrated the AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC software stack directly into the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS archive, enabling users to install the libraries with a single `sudo apt install rocm` co…
Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth declared Ubuntu 26.04 the operating system for the "AI agentic era" during his keynote at the Ubuntu Summit in London. Shuttleworth argued that AI-driven so…
Canonical announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA at COMPUTEX 2026 to integrate the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime for AI agents as a verified snap on Ubuntu. The OpenShell snap provides sandboxed, secure…
Canonical has released Workshop, an open-source tool that creates reproducible development environments from a single command using YAML files. The tool uses unprivileged LXD system containers with st…
Google and Canonical have partnered to certify Ubuntu images for use on Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) virtual machines. The collaboration shifts support for TPU Ubuntu images back upstream to …
Canonical and Google Cloud announced the availability of certified Ubuntu images for Cloud TPU virtual machines on Google Cloud, with the operating system now preinstalled by default when setting up t…
Canonical announced Workshop on May 27, 2026, a tool that lets developers launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command. The solution uses YAML configuration files to creat…
Canonical announced the release of Workshop, a tool that launches sandboxed development environments with a single command, enabling consistent and repeatable workflows across different machines. The …
Canonical released Workshop, a new Snap-based application for launching development environments. The tool uses YAML configuration files that can be copied across machines to reproduce identical setup…
Canonical and Arm have partnered to certify Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on the new Arm AGI CPU, a high-performance processor designed for agentic AI workloads. The Arm AGI CPU features up to 136 Neoverse V3 core…