Meta, OpenAI and Uber Just Taught AI Agents to Talk First. What About When to Stay Quiet?

TL;DR: Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Uber’s driver assistant share one bet: the agent speaks first.…

Betting Growth Puts North Carolina Addiction Support Under Strain

North Carolina recorded its 12th consecutive month with more than $500 million wagered on sports, extending…

IBM Brings Bob to Self-Hosted and Air-Gapped Environments: Agentic Software Development Without Moving Your Code

IBM has made a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob generally available. Bob is IBM’s agentic…

Prime Intellect Launches Prime Inference: Serverless and Reserved Serving for Frontier Open Models

Prime Intellect has launched Prime Inference, a serving platform for frontier open-source models. It offers serverless…

Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming: #1 Real-Time Speech-to-Text Model on Artificial Analysis

Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first streaming speech-to-text (STT) model. It launched on October 1,…

Decision AI Models Explained: TypeSafe Jev vs Fastino GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Decide and Open-Source Competitors

What are Decision AI Models? Decision AI models are a new class of model that returns…

Robinhood to Offer Cboe KPI Securities Pending SEC Review

Cboe plans to launch KPI-based binary contracts for 23 U.S.-listed companies in October 2026, subject to…

NVIDIA Announces DGX Spark 64GB: A 1-PetaFLOP Grace Blackwell Desktop for Local AI Agents, Fine-Tuning, and Inference

NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP…

Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks

Datalab has released OmniExtractBench, an open benchmark for structured document extraction. It tests how accurately a…

Boston lawsuit challenges DraftKings AI gambling promotions

DraftKings faces a proposed class action in federal court in Boston alleging it used artificial intelligence…

Maine Watches DraftKings AI as Massachusetts Opens Inquiry

Maine’s Gambling Control Unit is monitoring how sports-betting operators use artificial intelligence after New York Times…

AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms

AWS Strands Labs releases Strands Decider 2B, an open source decision model. It does not generate…