Soniox has released Soniox STT v6, the latest generation of its speech-to-text API. Soniox STT v6 is a speech-to-text model that reads what a voice agent says while hearing the caller. It uses that text to recognize short replies and to drop the agent’s own voice. The release ships as stt-rt-v6 for streaming and stt-async-v6…
The data analysis company Palantir delivered such a huge third-quarter earnings report on Monday that its press release even bragged that the numbers were “crushing consensus expectations.” Yet retail investors were lukewarm on the company on Tuesday, with the stock trading slightly down. That’s because Palantir’s enterprise sales, its big growth area, showed signs of…
Stuck in years-long lines for grid connections and new turbines, some AI data centers are making their own electricity with converted jet engines, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The engines, pulled from retired aircraft and rebuilt to burn natural gas, aren’t anyone’s idea of a permanent power plant. But they’re another sign of how…
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype for provable inference. FlashProve is a zkSNARK system from Anthropic that proves a reply came from a committed model. The proof reveals nothing about the model weights. On Llama 4 Maverick, a 400B mixture-of-experts model, it proves about 110 tokens/second on 1 H100. For…
NVIDIA’s latest technical blog shows how to speed up mixture-of-experts (MoE) inference on one DGX Spark. The test model is Ant Group inclusionAI’s Ling-3.0-flash, a 124B-parameter MoE with 5.1B active parameters. NVIDIA stacked three optimizations: a new MoE kernel backend, an FP8 output layer and built-in speculative decoding. On all 1,319 GSM8K questions, decode throughput…
Anthropic is working on an open-source system to verify which AI model produced a given output, according to a blog post published Tuesday. The system, called FlashProve, is built to provide what researchers call “provable inference” – a cryptographic proof, essentially a mathematical guarantee, that a given output came from a specific model. It’s meant…
Ballistic Ventures, the cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm co-founded by former Kleiner Perkins partner Ted Schlein (pictured above, second from the right), is seeking to raise $490 million across two new funds, TechCrunch has learned through regulatory filings. The San Francisco-based VC firm filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week to raise $360…
Fal, a San Francisco-based startup that hosts and runs AI video, image, and audio models, has raised $1.3 billion in its latest funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Sound Ventures, and T. Rowe Price. The deal values Fal at $16 billion, double its $8 billion valuation in April, Bloomberg reported….
Crypto giant Binance says North Korean hackers used fake social media profiles and the lure of a potential job offer as part of a months-long scheme aimed at tricking an employee into downloading malicious software onto their laptop. Researchers have repeatedly warned about long-running social engineering attacks that can go on for months. This latest…
Netflix announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out a new “AI Discover” tab where users will be able to experiment with new ways to find their next watch. The first experimental feature launching under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they’re currently in the mood for. Users can choose from…
