YouTube is adding new AI-powered features to YouTube Music that aim to make it easier for listeners to discover music, explore artists, and find podcasts they may otherwise miss. Announced at this year’s Made On YouTube event, the updates include “Ask Music,” a conversational tool for music and podcasts, and “Your Podcast Lineup,” a personalized…
“Ask YouTube,” the video web site’s newer AI-powered conversational search characteristic, will develop into a procuring companion, the corporate introduced on Wednesday at its Made on YouTube event. Ask YouTube started as an experiment in conversational search, earlier than turning into a bigger a part of the YouTube expertise. The characteristic permits anybody to look…
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the safety of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it’s “constructed from the bottom up for privateness and safety.” A zero-day vulnerability that provides domestically run apps and terminal instructions full management of the agent raises severe doubts. Additional elevating questions, Amazon…
AT&T, which already shed greater than half of its workforce over the previous decade, says it is going to proceed shedding workers because it gears up for the AI period. The telecommunications large can also be eliminating its old-school landline service and utilizing synthetic intelligence to automate some inner processes. All this downsizing is leading…
Starting Wednesday, Discord, the community messaging platform, will roll out age verification measures to all users. The rollout comes after the company initially delayed its age verification plans in February due to backlash from users concerned that biometric scans and ID checks could jeopardize their privacy. Those concerns weren’t unfounded; last year, a third-party vendor…
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. The team states it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work. It also costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads at default settings. On Anthropic’s own benchmarks, it leads in agentic coding,…
Kyutai has released Voice of Reason, 2 open-weight speech-to-speech models that solve math problems out loud. Both start from GLM-4-Voice-9B and add supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). There is no transcription step and no separate text LLM in the loop. On spoken GSM8K, accuracy climbs from 27.3% for the base model to 77.1%….
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of roughly 250 founders, investors and operators, he said openly that he doesn’t have answers to many of the AI questions leaders around…
Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It needs no training. It targets a common production job: picking one answer from a fixed set instead of writing a sentence. Is it deployable? Yes, it installs from PyPI, ships under Apache-2.0, and has transformers…
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a…
