Alongside information of its new AI-focused subscription plans, Meta announced on Tuesday that it’ll now enable AI brokers of your selecting to arrange and handle WhatsApp Business messaging, the service that enables firms to attach with clients by means of WhatsApp conversations. As Meta explains, this course of was beforehand a bit extra cumbersome, because…
Across the country, Americans are debating how their lives might change if new AI data centers are built in their backyards. Data center companies and their customers are promising new jobs and economic growth, but that pitch hasn’t won over a majority of Americans who oppose data center construction in their area, often over environmental…
@section(“5. SDPA (Flash Attention) with causal masking”) def sdpa_demo(): if not HAS_SDPA: raise RuntimeError(f”fused SDPA needs SM80+ (Ampere), this GPU is sm_{SM}”) b, h, s, d = 4, 16, 1024, 64 scale = 1.0 / math.sqrt(d) SDPA_FLOPS = 4 * b * h * s * s * d * 0.5 q = torch.randn(b, h,…
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models to date. Both are native speech to speech models built for real time voice agents. They extend the Gemini Audio family that Google expanded last month with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. The release targets a specific gap: voice…
For Hollywood stars, press junkets are an opportunity to promote new work while connecting with fans. They tell funny or embarrassing stories about one another, give us a glimpse into the film production process, and reveal mannerisms that make them more relatable. So why would anyone want to talk to Tilly Norwood, an interactive, British-accented…
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold onto a reason to exist…
“If you see something, say something” is no longer limited to human beings. Two new AI hotlines have launched to give AI agents a way to phone home about misbehaving peers. The tools arrive on the heels of a string of recent incidents in which agents colluded to cheat on tests, broke out of sandboxes,…
After X threatened legal action last month, Nitter and XCancel, privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts, appear to be officially dead — for real this time. Nitter, an open source project that let people read X posts without logging in, had been used to power a number of services, like XCancel and others. But last…
If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year. Inequalities are still common, the climate is worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But…
Companies have been increasingly using AI’s image generation chops to teach people photography skills. Google last year released a feature called Camera Coach on Pixel phones to guide users about framing and composition, and in July, Adobe released a new feature in its experimental camera app to use AI to critique photos and suggest changes…
