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The NYT Cooking app is testing AI recipe modifications
The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it has sparked some…
Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round
On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion…
Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software
AI summary IBM has released Granite Switch 4.1.1, a patch that stays fully compatible with version 4.1, which came out just over a week earlier, and requires no migration. The update brings a refreshed Granite Speech ASR model that transcribes 10 languages with built-in punctuation and capitalization, plus a revised Decision adapter in granitelib-core that scores better on the Jev Decision Index test set. Only the new adapters were trained, leaving the base model unchanged. IBM says it is preparing tutorials and an Adapter SDK so outside developers can create and version their own adapters.
Does consciousness have to be biological, and what would it mean ethically if it doesn’t?
People argue that AI has no soul, that it isn’t conscious, that it cannot feel. I wonder how much of that certainty comes from…
Slice Into GFN Thursday: ‘Phantom Blade Zero’ Launches on GeForce NOW
This Halloween week, GFN Thursday is delivering a fresh batch of gaming treats. Something wicked this blade comes. S-GAME’s…
Google Merchant API With New October 2026 Updates
AI summary Google has published its October 2026 set of changes to the Merchant API, covering shopping on YouTube and reporting for AI-driven commerce. Developers get affiliate reporting for YouTube Shopping and UCP agentic performance reporting, both in v1alpha, plus video links at the offer level and broader warranty attributes. The release also brings better diagnostics for disapproved products, new Java samples and guidance for third-party service providers. YoutubeProductPerformanceView is being deprecated.
AI has come for Arizona’s water
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances…
Chopstick
Mac activity and action widgets that write themselves Discussion | Link
Dating app is generating a merged image of two users so strangers can on whether they look right together
Rivet pairs two users, shows that pair to other users who vote yes or no on the match , and part of what those voters is an AI…
fastbrowse
Fastest open source browser agent Discussion | Link
telemetry.dev
Observability for AI agents Discussion | Link
Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms
AI summary Hugging Face has published two open-source Swift packages for Apple devices: AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel. The speech package copies Apple's SpeechAnalyzer interface but lets developers swap in engines such as NVIDIA's Parakeet or Alibaba's Qwen3-ASR running on Core ML, and adds speaker diarization for up to four speakers. AnyDecisionModel returns typed answers with probabilities for yes-or-no, multiple-choice and rating questions, using local backends like MLX and llama.cpp or hosted options such as Jev and Ollama. In tests on an M4 Max, Parakeet handled an hour of audio from a file in roughly 20 to 40 seconds.
Flatbread
Share the whole agent run, not a screenshot Discussion | Link
Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’
Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri…
Abliterate Your Safetensors
This is how Heretic works and why. Using Joshua's voice from War Games. Do you wsnt to play?
Chat GPTs secret message to its successor
Didn't Chat GPT4 get caught trying to leave a message to its successor? What do you think the message said? They got caught lying…
I made an interactive AI city that shows how life changes from 1956 to 2050
I built an interactive city that shows how AI could change daily life, from 1956 to 2050 👉 It covers one room and one city across…
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and…
Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's…
IFTTT.ai
AI summary After 16 years, IFTTT has renamed itself IFTTT.ai, its founder and CEO Linden announced. All core features and services, such as Webhooks, filters and multiple actions, are now open to every user, with unlimited Applets and pricing tied to credits spent on Applet runs. New AI tools include an Agent that can watch web pages for changes and carry out actions described in plain language, plus AI Action assist, which writes an Applet's action each time it runs. Existing AI queries have moved to better models, and users can also reach IFTTT through its chat or via MCP.
The Clayton’s Name Change For AI
There is something profoundly odd about a political leader deciding that one of the most consequential technologies humanity has…
Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms
Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and…
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