Superwhisper has released the S1 family of models: S1-Voice, S1-Language, and S1-mini. S1-Voice is a cloud speech-to-text model, and S1-Language is a cloud instruction-following model for cleanup and formatting. The one that is quite interesting outside the app is S1-mini, released with open weights on Hugging Face. S1-mini is a 0.6B text normalizer, not a…
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England’s Jordan Cox (left) and Joe Root celebrate their 100-run partnership during the second day of their first Test against Pakistan at Headingley in Leeds on August 20, 2026. — Reuters LEEDS: Harry Brook’s blistering 91 helped England take a 195-run lead over Pakistan despite a maiden five-wicket haul by left-arm spinner Ali Usman on day…
If you’ve ever wanted to share all of your digital conversations with OpenAI, we have good news for you: the AI lab has just launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing interested users to connect their Messages inbox with the chatbot. The benefits of doing this, OpenAI argues, are numerous. Users can use the…
The B.C. government says Domtar is permanently closing its Howe Sound pulp mill, which the company says has 350 workers. In a statement, Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests, said this decision of an “indefinite curtailment” is immensely difficult for the community and its workers. “These are not just jobs, these are livelihoods that have supported…
The covers stay on the pitch as rain delays the start of the second day of the first Test between England and Pakistan at Headingley. Photo: AFP LEEDS: England strengthened their grip on the first Test against Pakistan on Thursday, reaching 366 for eight at stumps to take a 195-run lead after rain again disrupted…
Liquid AI has released DSpark draft model checkpoints for three models in its LFM2.5 family: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, LFM2.5-2.6B, and LFM2.5-8B-A1B. Each drafter adds a speculative decoding path to an existing target model. A roughly 300M-parameter draft proposes a block of nine candidate tokens, and the target model verifies the whole block in a single forward pass….
By Dayne Patterson The Canadian Press Posted August 20, 2026 4:40 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Marathon runners who exhausted themselves in the Edmonton Marathon in the hope of qualifying for the marquee Boston Marathon may still have a shot. The Edmonton Marathon says more than 10,000 people…
BCB President Tamim Iqbal speaks during a press conference at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on August 20, 2026. — BCB The Bangladesh Premier League will not take place this season, the country’s cricket board (BCB) president Tamim Iqbal told reporters on Thursday, citing various issues that plagued the previous seasons including allegations…
PDFs sit at the end of almost every workflow. Contracts, invoices, research papers, scanned intake forms, manuals, and compliance filings all arrive as PDFs. The format is very good at freezing a layout. It is much worse at letting you change one number inside that layout. That gap has become more visible as language models…
