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 Summary Taco Bell’s roll-out of AI voice order-takers — deployed in more than 500 US drive-thrus — has…
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 A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself in their…
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors Summary Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action brought by authors who accused the company of using…
Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab
Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Summary Meta’s freshly minted Superintelligence Lab has already seen at least three researchers resign within weeks of the unit’s public launch. Two…
Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole
Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley Big Interview with Alexis Ohanian covers his return to social platforms — notably…
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary Internal emails obtained by WIRED show the White House apparently instructed leaders at the General Services Administration…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Summary HP reported stronger Personal Systems results in its fiscal Q3 (ended 31 July), with revenue…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors
Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being integrated into Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. The on-screen Copilot appears as a friendly, animated beige blob and can be summoned…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8, codenamed “Huffman”, is out. The release adds GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan and—most notably—integrates whisper.cpp to offer…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Microsoft has unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system already integrated into Copilot Daily and Podcasts, and MAI-1-preview, the company’s…