Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being integrated into Samsung’s 2025 range of TVs and smart monitors. Users will be able to summon Copilot to get movie suggestions, spoiler-free episode recaps…
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…
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…
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…
Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Summary The Nature Podcast presents an audio long read exploring how scientists search for signs of…
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool Summary An AI screening tool evaluated around 15,000 open‑access journals and flagged 1,437 as potentially problematic — titles that may charge…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed “Huffman”, is out. The release adds Vulkan GPU-accelerated video encoding and—most notably—integrates whisper.cpp (Georgi Gerganov’s local/offline…
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. Viewers will be able…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Today Microsoft unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system already live in Copilot, and MAI-1-preview, the company’s first end-to-end foundation…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary On 5 August 2025 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, 56-year-old tech industry veteran Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his 83-year-old mother,…
