I can’t tell the exact tipping point from realistic excitement over a new technology, to hype, to aww-come-on — but I’m pretty sure when a sandwich shop with Danny DeVito as its public face talks about AI in its IPO documents, we must be getting close. So it is with Jersey Mike’s. Because of investor…
WebBrain is a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks. Unlike most browser AI plugins, it can also run entirely on a local model. It is built by Emre Sokullu and licensed under MIT. The full source lives on GitHub. Run the agent against a…
Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reigniting fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s digital rights unit The…
Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio through a diffusion decoder, not an autoregressive one. It is described as the first multilingual audio diffusion ASR model. One adapter handles six languages. The research team trained only about 42M parameters on top of…
Nvidia competitor Etched introduced this week that TSMC had manufactured its first chip earlier this 12 months. Whereas the four-year-old startup valued at $5 billion is on the brink of ship methods powered by that chip to prospects later this summer time, scaling manufacturing might show difficult. Like different chip designers, Etched should compete for…
Militaries routinely ship satellites to fly by rival autos and suss out their capabilities, however scaling up this sort of reconnaissance is more and more seen by the U.S. navy as a problem finest dealt with by the personal sector. That’s why two area startups, True Anomaly and Rocket Lab, accomplished a rendezvous mission for…
Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example. Reuters reports that at an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected them to. Earlier this year,…
Each startup has a second that modifications all the things. For some, it’s touchdown their first buyer. For others, it’s closing their first funding spherical. For a choose few, it begins with one pitch. In case you’re going to use for Startup Battlefield Australia, now could be the time. Applications shut July 6, and as…
Most browser automation runs from the outside. Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and browser-use all drive a browser from an external process. They read the page through screenshots or the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Alibaba’s Page Agent takes the opposite path. The agent lives inside the webpage as plain JavaScript. It reads the live DOM as text and…
print(“\n[5/10] Creating a synthetic multimodal report…”) monthly_data = pd.DataFrame( { “Month”: [“Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, “May”, “Jun”], “Query Volume”: [1200, 1700, 2100, 2600, 3300, 4100], “Hybrid Accuracy”: [0.71, 0.74, 0.79, 0.83, 0.87, 0.91], “Average Latency ms”: [980, 920, 850, 790, 760, 730], } ) table_md = monthly_data.to_markdown(index=False) plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4.8)) plt.plot(monthly_data[“Month”], monthly_data[“Query Volume”], marker=”o”, label=”Query Volume”)…
