Tag: AI

Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell has rolled out AI-powered voice assistants to handle drive-thru orders at more than 500 US…

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 and then himself in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Police…

FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed “Huffman”, introduces built‑in automatic subtitling by integrating whisper.cpp (an entirely local, offline port of OpenAI’s Whisper).…

Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is being integrated into Samsung’s 2025 range of TVs and smart monitors. The feature lets…

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 system now live in Copilot (Daily and Podcasts) and available…

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 and himself in Old Greenwich, Connecticut on 5…

Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s roll‑out of AI voice assistants at the drive‑thru has hit practical problems: glitches, deliberate trolling…

Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool Summary An AI screening tool analysed around 15,000 open‑access journals and flagged 1,437 as potentially problematic, spotting signs such as very…

Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Summary This Nature audio long read explains how scientists are developing and adapting tests to detect…

FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0 (codename “Huffman”) is out. The release bundles about 30 notable changes, the headline being integration of whisper.cpp…