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Researchers at the University of Waikato have developed a text-to-speech system for a specific dialect of te reo Māori, built on the principle that the synthetic voice and all data used to create it must remain owned by …
A 4-billion-parameter AI model released in early 2025 is now outperforming models seven times its size on standard reasoning benchmarks, with Google's Gemma 3 4B scoring 89.2% on GSM8K math reasoning and Microsoft's Phi-…
NVIDIA has outlined nine techniques for customizing autonomous AI agents, ranging from simple prompt engineering to advanced reinforcement learning, to help businesses adapt general-purpose models for specialized tasks l…
Figma launched an AI agent for product design on Wednesday, embedding the tool directly into its canvas and connecting it to user workflows, components, and brand standards. The agent can generate and edit design layers,…
Google AI Mode, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity Pro Search, and other major AI search platforms have abandoned single-shot retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in favor of "agentic RAG," a multi-step architecture that plans, …
Pi has released a new set of behavior instructions for its OpenAI agent, defining how the system should structure responses. The instructions mandate concise, direct prose with imperative language, requiring the agent to…
Google announced new YouTube features at Google I/O 2026, including a conversational search tool called Ask YouTube that compiles relevant videos in response to complex queries. The company also introduced Gemini Omni AI…
Google unveiled what it calls the biggest upgrade to its Search box in 25 years at Google I/O, expanding the input to accept text, images, files, videos, and Chrome tabs while providing AI-powered suggestions. The compan…
Google unveiled its AI-enabled smart glasses on Tuesday at Google I/O, partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker to launch two styles that integrate Gemini AI for navigation, notifications, real-time tran…
Amazon has released design patterns for scalable voice agents using Amazon Nova Sonic, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands BidiAgent to address challenges like high latency and multi-agent coordination. The three patte…
Meta AI glasses are enabling disabled users to navigate daily tasks hands-free, with veterans like Donald Overton, who lost his sight in Iraq, using the device to read menus and navigate airports, and quadriplegic Marine…
ChatFeatured, a Toronto-based startup that helps brands influence how they appear in AI search engines, migrated from PlanetScale Postgres to Postgres managed by ClickHouse to unify transactional and analytical workloads…
Vicki Boykis added tags to her static blog using BERTopic and LLMs including Claude Code and Deepseek, completing the project in 6-10 hours. She argues that LLMs excel at compression tasks like topic modeling and labelin…
Tom Tunguz, a writer of 16 years, tested an "AI editorial council" of three different models—Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI Codex—to edit his fourth draft, but the result was a "fingerpaint disaster" as each model imposed it…
The global market for AI voice agents is projected to surge from $2.4–$3.14 billion in 2024 to between $35 billion and $47.5 billion by 2033–2034, driven by lower costs and improved technology. Among small and medium ent…
The latest edition of Community Wisdom explores strategies for screening AI-generated content in hiring processes, alternatives to Wispr Flow for voice transcription, and a comparison between multi-agent pipelines and th…
Researchers have developed RLP, an information-driven reinforcement pretraining objective that integrates exploration and chain-of-thought reasoning into the pretraining phase of large language models, rather than reserv…
Meta India launched Business AI on WhatsApp for small businesses in India, enabling 24/7 AI-powered customer support, lead capture, appointment booking, and sales directly within the app without additional tools. The fea…
A developer's attempt to speed up his Voxize dictation system by replacing OpenAI's multi-phase transcription pipeline with ElevenLabs' Scribe v2 model backfired after testing revealed the new model produced significantl…
Production RAG systems often fail after moving beyond demo stage due to underbuilt indexing, retrieval, and observability layers. The indexing pipeline ingests documents into chunks and vector embeddings, while the query…