Muse Voice, a feature that lets users call and video chat with Meta’s consumer AI agent, Muse, is now available to everyone in the U.S., the company announced on Thursday. First introduced at Meta’s Connect developer conference in September, the video-chatting feature involves new AI models, Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime Voice technology, which…
Google Research has released Agile Deliberation, a human-in-the-loop framework for building image classifiers around subjective concepts. Think ‘healthy food’, ‘inspiring artwork’ or clickbait in content moderation. Most tooling assumes users already know the concept boundary. Agile Deliberation assumes they do not, and helps them find it. TL;DR Framework: It prompts Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini…
When businesses evaluate new technology, the conversation usually follows a familiar path. What are our pain points? What problem are we solving? Can we build it or buy it? What will it cost? Who will support it? For most technology investments, these are reasonable questions to ask. But AI can influence more than the systems…
OpenAI just shipped Images 2.6 across ChatGPT, Codex and the API. For developers, the core release is GPT-Image-2.6, shipped as two API models: Flare and Sunburst. OpenAI team states that Images 2.6 generates images 50% faster than before. The update also adds GIF output, SVG export, markup-guided edits and a new complexity parameter. TL;DR Size:…
Alexis Ohanian wants to figure out the future of user-generated content. According to the Reddit cofounder, building social media apps is “not cool anymore” and so much of the internet has been compromised. “I’m expecting some better version of the group chat to be that new version of UGC,” Ohanian told WIRED senior correspondent Lauren…
Large language models are already communicating with humans in dozens of languages everyday. Turns out it may not be a stretch to use them to talk with dolphins, too. That’s the premise of research by Denise Herzing, the founder and director of the Wild Dolphin Project. Herzing first began thinking about how the marine mammals…
The team explored other gadgets like smart glasses and pendants, but ultimately decided the ring was the most convenient way to interact with agents. The titanium Aina Ring connects to Macs or iPhones, and at any moment, the onboard assistant is looking for the three things you need next. It learns your routines from your…
A new British startup believes that artificial intelligence is the key to speedrunning the slow and temperamental process of drug design. Potential Sciences plans to build large-scale chemical datasets by using basic principles of physics to simulate interactions between atoms, then small molecules, then complex amino acids and proteins. With that data, it’s betting it…
The word “intelligent” gets attached to a lot of things in enterprise tech, and most senior leaders have learned to read right past it. That skepticism is valid. When every platform, every storage array, and every SaaS dashboard claims intelligence, the word stops carrying meaning. But there is a real distinction worth drawing, because we…
Amazon has made Uber Eats as its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States, effectively ending the e-commerce giant’s existing deal with Grubhub. Under the new partnership announced Thursday, Amazon Prime members will be able to order food from Uber Eats directly through Amazon.com and the Amazon Shopping app. Importantly, Prime…
