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The Future of AI Agents is Event-Driven
AI agents are set to transform enterprise operations with autonomous problem-solving, adaptive workflows, and scalability. But the real challenge isn’t building better models. Agents need access to data, tools, and the ability to share information across systems, with their outputs available for use by multiple services—including other agents. This isn’t an AI problem, it’s an…
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Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI
In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.Read More
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Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps
Hugging Face’s new FastRTC library enables Python developers to build real-time voice and video AI applications in just a few lines of code, removing a major technical barrier as voice AI investments surge.Read More
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The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source
In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine of not contributing enough to the WordPress ecosystem and profiting off of trademark confusion. As a result, WP Engine was blocked from accessing WordPress.org’s…
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Excessive Cloud Spending In the Spotlight
Are you spending too much in the cloud? Many business leaders feel they are overpaying as they move their data and apps into the cloud. According to a pair of studies released this week, excessive data egress fees are particularly damaging to cloud happiness, while orphaned cloud processing capacity is a tough nut to crack.…
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Hume Introduces Octave TTS: A New Text-to-Speech Model that Creates Custom AI Voices with Tailored Emotions
In the rapidly evolving field of digital communication, traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems have often struggled to capture the full range of human emotion and nuance. Conventional systems tend to “read” text in a flat, unvarying tone, missing the subtle inflections and emotional cues that make human speech so engaging. This shortfall poses a challenge for…
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Nvidia revenues hit $39.3B, up 78% in FYQ4 — with no sign of slowdown (updated)
Nvidia reported that its revenue for the third fiscal quarter ended October 27 was $35.1 billion, up 17% from the previous quarter and up 94% from a year ago.Read More
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DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator
Elon Musk’s men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.
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Living with extreme heat might make you age faster
Exposure to extreme heat could lead to faster aging, a new study published today in the journal Science Advances suggests. Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas. The study looked at measures of a person’s biological, or epigenetic, age, which…
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ElevenLabs’ new speech-to-text model Scribe is here with highest accuracy rate so far (96.7% for English)
Scribe’s pricing structure makes it competitive for businesses that require high-volume transcription services with API-based integration.Read More