Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Microsoft has unveiled two in-house MAI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech‑generation system already live in Copilot Daily and Podcasts, and MAI-1-Preview, the company’s…
Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones Summary Amtrak has introduced next‑generation Acela trainsets capable of 160 mph on the Northeast Corridor. The new…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, with researchers from the University of Florida, deployed about 120 retrofitted toy rabbits…
Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have injected a light-emitting phosphor compound into succulent leaves to make them glow like soft night lights.…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s experiment with AI-powered drive-thru voice assistants, rolled out to more than 500 US locations, has…
Engineers Send Quantum Signals With Standard Internet Protocol Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated, for the first time on commercial fibre, that fragile quantum signals can be…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself in Old…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has begun enforcing age verification on Steam for UK users to comply with…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Georgia Tech has sharply increased corporate funding this fiscal year, securing about $70 million from industry — a 28% rise…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli security researchers built an automated offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses prompts to an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0),…
