Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at music
Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at music

Apple Music: “What do you want to hear?” Me: “Atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to.” Apple Music: “Here’s three metal songs with vocals, a field recording, an ambient electronic track, and a piece of doom jazz.” I am skeptical of AI’s ability to serve up the music I want to begin with, but even […]

Mistral Releases Open-Weight Voice AI Built For Speed

Mistral releases Voxtral TTS model that’s fast, multilingual and small enough to be practical for voice agents.

Boston Institutes AI Literacy For All High Schoolers

Boston launches universal AI literacy program, preparing students for workforce disruption and future economic opportunities.

Anthropic: Huge Pricing Issues With Glitching Claude Code Limits?

Claude Code is burning through developers’ usage allotments far too quickly, say users, alleging Anthropic has a pricing bug.

Fully Autonomous Drone Warfare Is Coming To Ukraine – And Iran

On Ukraine’s front lines, coders turn cheap FPV drones into AI-guided kamikazes as Russia, Iran and the US race toward lethal autonomous weapons and Kharg Island looms.

Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.

Next-gen AI breakthrough promises chatbots that can read the room better

This new AI approach teaches chatbots to focus on emotionally important words and link them to the right subject, helping them better understand nuanced messages and respond more appropriately.

Google’s ‘live’ AI search assistant can handle conversations in dozens more languages
Google’s ‘live’ AI search assistant can handle conversations in dozens more languages

Google is expanding access to Search Live, a feature that lets you search for information using your voice and camera. The AI search assistant is now available in more than 200 countries and territories, as well as dozens of languages, according to an announcement on Thursday. Search Live rolled out broadly in the US last […]

OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode

It’s only the latest of several side project that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.

Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills

Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power — and how that affects the grid.