GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added early access to xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 LLM to GitHub Copilot as an…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed “Huffman”, introduces Vulkan-based GPU-accelerated video encoding and integrates whisper.cpp — Georgi Gerganov’s local/offline port of OpenAI’s…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models – Slashdot Summary Microsoft has unveiled two new in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system already integrated into Copilot Daily and Podcasts, and…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches
Summary Taco Bell’s roll-out of AI-powered drive-thru order-takers — deployed in over 500 US locations — is running into real-world problems: glitches, pranksters gaming the system (one viral clip shows…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary The Wall Street Journal reported that a 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother and then…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly
FFmpeg 8 (codename “Huffman”) introduces several notable updates, chief among them built‑in automatic subtitling via integrated speech recognition. The release integrates whisper.cpp — Georgi Gerganov’s local, offline implementation of OpenAI’s…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being added to Samsung’s 2025 range of smart TVs and monitors. Users will be able…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models – Slashdot Summary Microsoft has unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation model now live in Copilot, and MAI-1-preview, the company’s first…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Content summary Taco Bell’s experiment with AI voice assistants in drive-thrus has run into practical problems: glitches and…