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India and Nepal deepened AI collaboration at a seminar in Kathmandu, where a memorandum of understanding was signed between Digital India Bhashini and Kathmandu University to advance language-AI work. The event also high…
A new distinction between chatbot dialogue and inline automation in AI writing tools has implications for student learning, according to an academic analysis. The author argues that inline automation, like Microsoft Copi…
Whissle Gateway launches a multi-modal voice AI system that runs locally in a 500MB Docker container, offering batch REST, streaming WebSocket, text-to-speech, voice calling, and an intelligent agent. The system includes…
A developer is building BoloMic, a local-first voice dictation tool that uses on-device Whisper transcription and a local LLM to produce finished text like commit messages and tickets. The tool avoids cloud uploads to ad…
A developer abandoned building a custom document Q&A system after struggling with fine-tuning and keyword search, then built a working prototype using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with OpenAI embeddings and Chrom…
Babel, a new app launched on Hacker News, pairs users for anonymous voice calls with real-time AI translation, allowing each person to speak and hear in different languages simultaneously. The founder built 85% of the MV…
A developer built a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system to let their team chat with internal documentation, replacing a wiki search that failed to answer common questions. After experimenting with chunking, embed…
A developer explains that large language models never read text directly; instead, they process tokenized integers via Byte Pair Encoding. The post details how tokens—chunks of text like 'Hello' or ' world'—affect billin…
A developer shares five perception tricks to reduce felt latency in voice AI agents without improving actual response times. The techniques include playing instant acknowledgment utterances, using human-like filler sound…
A developer built a ChatGPT-style email plugin using Nylas APIs and function calling with large language models. The system defines three tools—list_messages, get_message, and send_email—with a human-in-the-loop gate for…
Nylas introduces agent-owned mailboxes that enable automated inbox-zero workflows. An email agent classifies messages into four buckets, drafts replies, and requires human approval before sending. The system uses hosted …
A developer built a system to extract structured data from email signatures using regex and cross-referencing, achieving 91% field completeness by merging data from three messages. The system uses a dedicated Nylas agent…
A new analysis argues that emotion vectors in large language models may serve AI-native functions like reward hacking, with no human analog, challenging anthropocentric emotion labels and raising alignment concerns. The …
McDonald's unveiled a Google-powered drive-thru ordering system called ArchIQ at its Worldwide Convention in Las Vegas, now piloting at five U.S. locations. The system has processed over 1 million transactions with about…
GlobalInternet.py built an AI Customer Service Suite for a small business owner, featuring a 24/7 chatbot that answers questions based solely on internal policies with multilingual support and a natural AI voice. The sys…
A developer released Intelligence Emotions, an open-source AI coaching team that runs inside Claude Code to help users build mental fitness by identifying self-sabotaging thought patterns and practicing attention shifts.…
Google Research announced Gemini-SQL2, a text-to-SQL capability powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro, which achieved 80.04% execution accuracy on the BIRD Single-Model Leaderboard, surpassing its predecessor Gemini-SQL and competit…
A developer built AI Wellness Journal, a symptom tracking app using Next.js, Supabase, and Google Gemini that generates structured doctor-ready reports. The app logs daily symptoms with severity ratings and freeform note…
Apple's iOS 27 beta 1 ships with the new Advanced Dictation Preview feature disabled by default on updated devices. The on-device AI dictation, which Apple says delivers a major boost in accuracy, is available only on se…
A Hacker News user sparked a debate on the implications of AI-generated voices becoming indistinguishable from human speech, outlining two potential futures for the technology. The user predicts that while high-end creat…